Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With THE REV ELSIE CHAMBERLAIN , BD Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys and Chris Lowe
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
8.50* Your Letters

The sixth of eight programmes Egypt The Banquet at Saqqara Joseph Hone revisits Egypt's former glories. (R)

Producer CAROLE LACEY
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

by Anne Hay
Read by Alan Cumming

BBC Scotland

NEM, p 21; Beloved, let us love (BBC HB 373); Luke 1, vv 26-38;
Magnificat: That Virgin's Child (BP 83)

Presented by John Howard
Write for Factsheet No 12 to: [address removed] Please send sae

with Derek Cooper
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner
Today's story: Farmer Coombes's 's Revenge, Stereo

2.05 Let's Join In: Ten in a Bed
by ALLAN AHLBERG and ANDRE ARMSTUTZ (R) (e)

2.25 The Song Tree
The Amazing Secret Music-Maze (10) by BARRY GIBSON
Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT
Stereo (R)(e)

2.40 Scottish Traditional Dancing
With BILL TORRANCE
This week: A Festival of Scottish Dancing, Fife
BBC Scotland. Stereo (e)

from Newcastle upon Tyne
The programme that highlights women's interests, and colours men's thinking.
Presenter Gillian Reynolds Serial: Out of the Shelter by DAVID LODGE, abridged in 12 episodes by JACK SINGLETON Read by Trevor Nichols (12)

by DAVID BUCK
Five English Mystery plays and 3: The Image of Man
In which Herod massacres the innocents, Jesus is tempted by Lucifer, performs miracles and raises Lazarus from the dead. and Musical composition by JOHN BULL and DANNY SCHILLER Choral composition by DAVID TIMSON
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS. Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 3)

John Waite reports on five small businesses.
2: A Greengrocer's in Fulham Run by Ken West
Producer MARINA SALANDY BROWN (R)

Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5. 55

With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report

with Tom Boswell , Clive Jacobs and Alanah Martin Producer IRENE MALUS

Written by SIMON FRITH
BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer PETER HOARE. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)

Lord Young of Graffham
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
Tony Blair, mp, Opposition Spokesman on Trade and Industry
Alan Coren , Editor, the Listener Joan Phylacton , senior lecturer in Industrial Psychology, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic
From Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Geoffrey Goodman presents a personal view of the week's newspapers and talks to the people behind the headlines. Producers EMILY BUCHANAN and SHEILA COOK

Misgivings over future of Gorbachev and modernising reforms voiced by commentators. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

The Arts Down Under
The Adelaide Festival is the biggest single arts extravaganza of Australia's bicentennial year. The event attracts performers from all over the world and reflects the diversity of Australia's roots and its unique geographic position. In addition, it's the focus for a lively and healthy home-grown arts world.
John Baxter reports from the 1988 Adelaide Festival and assesses the state of the Arts in Australia.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Memoirs of a Midget by WALTER DE LA MARE , abridged in 15 episodes by JOHN SCOTNEY Read by Janet Maw (15) Producer PETER WINDOWS

Presented by David Sells
National and international news, background, analysis and comment

with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Royce Mills Written by MARK BURTON
JOHN O'FARRELL. PAUL B. DAVIES STEVE PUNT. MIKE COLEMAN
BILL MATTHEWS , ROBERT UNFORD MAX HANDLEY , GED PARSONS PETER HICKEY , DAVID BADDIEL ROB NEWMAN. ALISON RENSHAW and others
Producer BILL DARE. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)

Secondary English Twenty Ways of Writing
5: Writing in Brief. Stereo (e)