With THE RE V MATTHEW RODGER Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
A six-part inquiry into ownership today.
2: Blue Bloods on the Green and Pleasant
Death duties took a swipe at dukes, but those who ducked and shielded their land have learnt skilled self-defence. How much of the country is still in their hands and how do they run it?
Ray Gosling sees the Scottish acres of the Duke of Buccleuch and hears from other owners of the Great Estates.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
(Re-broadcast next Wednesday)
(NextThursday: 'TheCountyGents')
In the 1950s, the rhesus monkey proved essential to man for the production of a polio vaccine.
Today the chimpanzee is proving equally important for research into the AIDS virus. But what is the cumulative effect of trapping and trading primates in the wild? Can the species closest to man survive man's thirst for knowledge? Fergus Keeling investigates.
Producer LESLIE JEWELL. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
In the first of four programmes, Robert Carvel talks to four statesmen about the shifts in the centres of power - in Whitehall, Westminster and on the international stage - which they have observed at first hand during their political careers. 1: Edward Heath
Prime Minister 1970-4 Producer SHEILA COOK
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Patrick Hannan , on the hidden perils of language, today looks at the glossy world of advertising.
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Presented bv John Howard
In the third of eight programmes, Fritz Spiegl explores the varied repertory of music-makers by the seaside. Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo (R)
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Harry's Very Bad Day by DOROTHY EDWARDS Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Inside the Body TIMMY MALLETT hears your heart beat and your tummy rumble and ROBIN ROBBINS suggests primary science investigations. Stereo(e)
2.20 Nellie and the Dragon by ELIZABETH LINDSAY
3: Nellie and the Ice-Cream Thief with NICOLA KATHRENS and BERNADETTE WINDSOR Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Wings on the Wind by ZOE BAILEY (R)(e)
2.40 Listen! Not That Brevil Hockley! (3) by KEN JONES Stereo (e)
What do women want? If Freud had been a regular listener, he would have known the answer. Presenter Jenni Murray Serial: Cold Showers (6)
by MICHAEL GURR with and This Australian play, with an all-Australian cast, centres on Presley Swift who, after a long and distinguished career as a diplomat, feels he is entitled to an honourable retirement.
But Presley and his wife Sylvia share a secret that, should it come to light, would shatter the peace of that retirement. Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Stereo
with Nigel Forde
I just found suddenly that I had to write. And it's the most marvellous feeling when you're playing God and the fate of all the characters is in your hands. An interview with author and playwright Rachel Billington , whose new novel
Loving Attitudes has just been published.
Producer WILL CANTOPHER (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Revised re-broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.25* PM Letters
5.30* News Summary
5.31* City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
written by TERRY RAVENSCROFT Captain Krik and Mr Pocks rediscover Planet Earth and are interrupted by Janet Street-Porter ,
Humphrey Bogart , Arthur Scargill and Mrs Greenbaum. Jeffrey Holland
Christopher Godwin
Susie Blake and Fred Harris boldly go where no comedy has gone before.
Producer MARTIN FISHER. Stereo (R)
Introduced by Brian Gear Compiled by LAURIE MASON
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
A series of six programmes in which June Knox-Mawer introduces a complete recording of a well-known concerto, preceding it with a conversation with the soloist.
This week the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter plays
Mozart's Violin Concerto No 2 in D, Massenet's Meditation from Thais and part of Zigeunerweisenby Sarasate. Producer DEREK DRESCHER. Stereo
The Need to Know
The current tussle in the courts between the Government and the press.
(Details tomorrow at 11. 00am L W)
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC. London WIA 4WW
Phone [number removed]. Lines open from
10.00am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday
This week Glyn Worsnip signs up for the new Home Guard. Producer HELEN FRY (R)
Presented by Nigel Andrews Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
Nairn in Darkness and Light (4)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
followed by an interlude
Help Yourself: Russian Studies Programmes 1-4: modular programmes, in English, on aspects of Russian civilisation in the 19th and 20th centuries. Producer GEOFFREY BRArrHWAiTE Stereo (e)
