Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
with Dr Sheila Cassidy.
(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 Charlotte Green
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with Garry Richardson
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Jamaican-born Ferdi Dennis has lived most of his life in London. Last year he travelled to six major cities on a journey of discovery among the communities of black Britain.
(R)
Frog-eating bats, tapirs, turtles and terrapins are just some of the creatures to be found in the Brazilian forests.
Fergus Keeling talks to Adrian Barnett about his recent expedition to Brazil and Jessica Holm hears about the Naabis, the Ndohos and the Pedallers - all packs of wild dogs.
(BBC Bristol)
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
Sue MacGregor goes to Kettering to meet J.L. Carr, novelist, sculptor and publisher of small books (so that in cold bedrooms only one hand need suffer exposure) and some not so small.
(BBC Manchester)
Six programmes on the English language today.
Linguistic pundit David Crystal looks into puns - the lowest or highest form of wit?
Presented by John Howard
by Alex Shearer.
What goes up must, in this era of glasnost, come down, but exactly where it comes down is still a matter for negotiation.
(Stereo)
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Peg-Leg Pete and the Pirate Ghost. Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Has Spring Sprung? Go on a treasure hunt to find the first signs of spring. Try TIMMY MALLETT 'S bee-nest box idea too. Stereo (e)
2.20 Nellie and the Dragon by ELIZABETH LINDSAY
9: Nellie and the Snowy Day with NICOLA KATHRENS and BERNADETTE WINDSOR. Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry/Music) Beautiful Horse! Compiled by PADDY BECHELY (R) (e)
2.40 Listen! Nicobobinus (4) by TERRY JONES dramatised by DAVID SELF Stereo (e)
Continuing the week-long Smear Campaign, Jenni Murray talks to Junior Health Minister Edwina Currie about the new national recall system for cervical smearing.
Serial: Out of the Shelter (6)
by Christina Reid.
'My name, shall I tell you my name? It's hard but I'll try. Sometimes I forget it; that's when I'm shy.
But I have another, I never forget so easy. So pretty. And that's Granda's pet!'
In present day Ulster, Andrea and her grandfather have been forced apart by their politics. Now each tenderly looks back on their relationship.
(BBC Northern Ireland) (Stereo)
Nigel Forde talks to Jamaican writer Olive Senior about her prize-winning collection of short stories "Summer Lightning", and to Graham Swift about his latest novel "Out of this World".
(Revised re-broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With Bryan Martin
including Financial Report
In this theatre quiz Sheila Hancock 's guests hear an Armenian version of Hamlet, a budgie's version of Julius Caesar, and tales of disaster. With Keith Barron, Moira Lister, Martin Jarvis and Denise Coffey.
(R)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Introduced by Brian Gear.
(BBC Bristol)
The anthem chosen to mark Dublin's millenium is a new arrangement of Molly Malone. The influence of those famous streets is very much in evidence as William Trevor reflects on the history and traditions of the Fair City ... with a little help from earlier writers.
Additional touches of blarney are provided by Marcella O'Riordan and T. P. McKenna. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
(Details tomorrow at 11.00am L W)
Presented by Kati Whitaker.
Correspondence and enquiries to: [address removed] Phone [number removed]
Margaret Howard uncovers the pleasures of subterranean living when she visits Stuart Bexon in Mole Manor, which he built himself under a field in the heart of rural Gloucestershire.
(Stereo) (R)
Presented by Paul Allen
Memoirs of a Midget (9)
A statement on the Budget by Alan Beith, MP, on behalf of the Liberal Party and their allies in Parliament.
Presented by David Sells
(LW)
Secondary Science Producer ARTHUR VIALLS (R) (e)
12.30 The Mole Concept Presented by FRED HARRIS Computer-synchronised radio and at 12.50 Uniformly Accelerated Motion Presented by NIGEL GRAHAM Computer-synchronised radio
