Farming, food and countrysiae news, market trends, weather
With THE REV GEOFFREY AINGER Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON 7 20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to make your points to Nick and his guests on an issue of current concern. Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8. 00am
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is your money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 8. 15pm)
The Front Pew by LUCY GANNON
Read by Gillian Goodman
Producer LUCY LUNT
BBC Pebble Mill
New Every Morning, page 97; On Jordan's bank (BBC HB 38); The truth from above (Carols for Choirs 2); Isaiah 40, vv 1-9;
The Lord will come (BBC HB 479) Stereo
Bruce Sandison talks of fishing, wildlife and history with Christopher Lowell. The Uists
Three islands at the southern end of the Outer Hebrides, all more water than land.
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland)
Presented by Trevor Barnes
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen preside over a further series of cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the lobes.
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge Robert Kernohan and Richard de Marco
Researcher BERNICE COUPE
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
BBC Manchester
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Corner Today's songs: Favourite Things (R) English Resources (2)
2.05 People Speaking 2: Telling a Story Researcher SANDRA HEAVENSTONE Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS (e) and at 2.45 Introducing.... Green Days by the River by MICHAEL ANTHONY Producer MICHAEL BARTLETT Stereo (e)
If women have equality, why do they still need their own programme?
Find out with Jenni Murray and guests.
by JOHN HARDING
A lonely woman visiting an art gallery listens to a taped guide and imagines that the lecturer is talking personally to her.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo
Ian and Jennifer Partridge gave their first concert before an audience of five people and a cat. Since then they've given hundreds of song recitals together and made dozens of recordings.
They discuss with Richard Baker how this brother-and-sister partnership has fared over 25 years.
Producer JUDITH ROLES Stereo
Introduced by David Lomax Turning Science into Profit Shifting ideas from the laboratory to the market place is said to be a knack the British lack. Major efforts are being made to improve the situation, the latest being the establishment of the Centre for Exploration of Science and Technology. Will it work? Researcher SLAN JARVIS
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 7.20pm)
continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
Stereo
(Details on Thursday at 12.25pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.05pm)
A quarterly report on the world of employment
Each year a quarter-of-a-million people move house at their employer's request; many more move in search of a job. But is mobility being managed in the best way? Brian Redhead and Nicholas Jones have been finding out. There's also a discussion on the rise in the number of people in work - a long-term trend or short-term bubble?
Consultant JOHN ATKINSON
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE (R) Background notes available from: 'Workforce; BBC. Villiers House, London W52PA
The programme for blind and partially-sighted people. Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Lines open from 8.30 to 10. 15pm
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer WILL CANTOPHER
Jackdaw Cake (7) Stereo
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
