Farming, food and countryside news. market trends, weather
With THE REV PETER MORAN. 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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
The pith of the week.
Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo
This week Clay Jones and his team of Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward answer gardening queries sent in by post. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Questions. on postcards only please, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, POBox27. Manchester M60 1SJ
On the Elektrika by BRENDAN O'BYRNE
Read by John Westbrook Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 122: How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (BBC HB 142); Psalm 15; Revelation 7, w 11-17; Rejoice in God's saints (BP 73) Stereo
Fritz Spiegl reveals that there were more women in Beethoven's life than the 'Immortal Beloved'. Reader GARARD GREEN Producer RAY ABBOTT
Presented by John Buckley
Robert Cushman in conversation with Mike Alfreds.
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall
by the Conservative Party
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Another Mouse to Feed by ROBERT KRAUS. Stereo (R)
2.05 WPFM Radical youth radio with a live mix of music, opinion, youth politics, innovative new courses, and training schemes, reviews, interviews, new scenes, new sounds and airtime for fresh new voices. Stereo Call [number removed] free from
2. 15-3. 15pm for more information on programme items
In the programme where you meet the people behind the headlines, Jenni Murray talks to Elizabeth Tilberis , the Editor of Vogue magazine.
Serial: Cold Showers (10)
by JOHN OWEN and JAMES PARKINSON with and In which the intrepid hero finds himself mysteriously pursued by a young man - with extraordinary results.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo
The last of five programmes in which George MacBeth interviews Charles Causley about his life and poetry. Reader MICHAEL DEACON
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
Twenty years after homosexuality in private was legalised, is it really any easier to 'come out'? Max Easterman reports on why there are now challenges to gay behaviour in Church and State.
Producer BRENDAN MCCARTHY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
Disappearing Nightly
The success of the musical in Britain's theatres ensures employment for the musicians who disappear nightly into the pit. But what kind of life is it, and do the demands of new musicals stretch the resources of the band? Paul Allen talks to musical directors, musicians and managements about the current state of harmony in the pit.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.25* PM Letters
5.30* News Summary
5.31* City News continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
A series of 12 horror and suspense plays, introduced by Edward de Souza , the Man in Black
5: The Beast with Five Fingers by W. F. HARVEY dramatised by JOHN KEIR CROSS with James Laurenson as Eustace Kim Wall as Saunders and Cyril Luckham as Morton Horror arrives in a small box left to a distinguished scientist in a will.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm) Written by JULIET ACE Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
(Details tomorrow at 9.05am L W)
Stereo
A six-part inquiry into ownership today.
2: Blue Bloods on the Green and Pleasant
Ray Gosling sees the Scottish acres of the Duke of Buccleuch and hears from other owners of the great estates.
(Part 3 tomorrow at 9.30am L W)
The Great Cathedrals of Britain 3: Out of the Ashes
Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer RACHEL YORKE
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.35pm)
Nairn in Darkness and Light (8)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
followed by an interlude
Books, Plays, Poems City Sugar (3) by STEPHEN POLlAKOFF Stereo (e)
