Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With THE REV GEOKKREY AlNGER Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

The programme where you set the agenda

Radio 4 offers you the opportunity to sort out what's bugging you. Susan Marling and Nigel Farrell are on hand with support, advice and a touch of humorous observation. You ask the question the professionals wouldn't dare to.

BBC Bristol

If you would like to take part in 'Punters' write, with address and telephone number, to: Punters, [address removed] or phone: Bristol [number removed]

Sheila Minto is 81. On her dining-room wall there are photographs of the eight Prime Ministers to whom she has been secretary. She calls the display her 'rogues' gallery.' In the second of three programmes, she reminisces with Jock Gallagher about 'her' Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Producer ANNE MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill (H)

Presented by Fergus Keeling Reports on what is happening in the natural world. Producer JOHN HARRISON. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Introduced from Broadcasting House. London. Stereo

In the last programme in the series, Sue MacGregor talks to Dr Pauline Cutting , who spent five months working in a Beirut refugee camp, about her life and work and asks her to reflect a little on both.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

You can tell a person's character from the appearance of his garden, suggests
Jonathan Porritt as he casts a friendly eye over the earth from his home in North London. BBC Bristol (R)

Presented by John Howard For information about this week's 's programme, write for:
Factsheet No 50, [address removed] Please send sae

by JAMES HENDRIE and IAN BROWN About two-thirds of the way through this programme, there are a couple of lines which aren't particularly funny.
However, they act as a sort of 'set up' to a really funny bit just after, so please don't switch off during them, as this could make the 'punchline' or 'tag' slightly less funny Thank you for your consideration.
Starring Robert Bathurst
Brenda Blethyn. Mike Grady and Jonathan Kydd.
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo

Presented by Nick Worrall

1.55 Listening Corner Today's songs: Slow, Slow, Quick-Quick, Slow. (R)
2.05 Australia Bicentenary In Our Own Words (1 and 2) Producer DEREK FARMER (e)
2.45 English Resources (2) Introducing.... A Walk in the Night by ALEX LEGUMA Producer MICHAEL BARTLETT Stereo (e)

In the programme which puts the female perspective on politics, places and people,
Jenni Murray meets Professor Catherine Peckham of the Institute of Child Health. She is the first woman in Britain to hold a chair in pediatric epidemiology - the study of the spread of children's diseases.

by R.D. Wingfield
with Bob Peck as Harry Davis

Demolition expert Harry Davis is a retired British special agent. In his service days he was part of a disastrous plot to assassinate an African leader. Now, many years later, there is to be another attempt. Reluctantly Harry is drawn into the plot.
(Stereo)

In this week's finely-chiselled edition, Nigel Forde meets the dashing hero of Claire Francis 's new thriller, Wolf Winter ; investigates the shape of Mahler's ears ('small, with completely free-standing lobes'); and discovers, from a new biography of the classic children's author, E. Nesbit , that 'a want of breadth at the root of the nose made her look weak and sensitive'. Producer SIMON ELMES
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

(Revised broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9. 45pm)

continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With CLIVE ROSLIN
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo

(Re broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
BBC Pebble Mill

Introduced by Derek Jones Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS82LR

direct from the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool Richard Baker introduces the annual concert of carols and Christmas music with Broad Square County Primary School Choir chorusmistress GILLIAN JONES
Liverpool Philharmonic Choir Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra led by MALCOLM STEWART conducted by Ian Tracey Parti

'He is only our would-be uncle, an uncle who might have been....'
Alan Bennett goes in search of his mother's brother, who died in Flanders in 1917. BBC Manchester (R)
... perfect wireless, a voice on the ether, radiant with pictures.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Part 2
BBC Manchester. Stereo

Nigel Andrews presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer SALLY MARMION
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)

Jackdaw Cake (9) Stereo

Presented by Richard Kershaw

followed by an interlude