Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With SYLVIA SANDS 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 SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVLLE
7.45* Thought for the Day
3: The New Neighbour
Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo
Today Gordon Clough talks to Martin Luther King III about his decision to enter politics as an elected County Commissioner. Stereo
This week chairman Clay Jones calls on the expert advice of Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward to answer listeners' gardening queries sent in by post. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Questions on postcards only, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC. POBox27. Manchester M60 1SJ
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A season of morning stories for Easter
The Devil and McKenna by MICHAEL WHERLY
Place: Africa, a cosmopolitan capital
Scam: corruption in high government office
Gain: a briefcase crammed with black market money Loss: a man's soul
Read by Bill Paterson
NEM, p 102; This joyful Eastertide (BBC HB 115); Jesus is this dark world's light (BBC HB 519); John 21, w 4 -17; 0 love, who formedst me to wear (BBC HB 361) Stereo
A series often programmes that takes life as the microphone finds it.
6: Band of Hope
Ten years ago, Simon, Neil and Mog stopped busking and started a band. The Smirks were 'new wave pop funsters' and tipped as the 'next big thing'. Their records flopped, their label went bust and the radio documentary about them was never broadcast.
They're still at it: writing, rehearsing, touring, hustling, making demos and looking for a deal. Now they're part of Distant Cousins, perhaps the best broke band in Britain. Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester. Stereo
From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure, Dilly Barlow attempts to answer your questions, with advice from experts and help from the BBC Reference Library. Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Questions to: Enquire Within, BBC, London WIA 1AA
tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day will affect you and your family.
Presented by John Buckley
A thriller serial in five parts by R. D. WINGFIELD with and 4: The Vault
The hand of the murderer - who or whatever he or it is - does not leave even Chadwick, the man from Scotland Yard, untouched.
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo (R)
Presented by Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines
Today's story: Wriggly Worm and the New Pet Stereo (R)
In the programme that invites women to share their passions and their problems, Jenny Cuffe finds out why some children develop school phobia - and what can be done to help them. Presenter Jenni Murray
Serial: Dangerous in Love (2)
by MICHAEL JUDGE
Adultery is a mortal sin, but killing your spouse might - under certain circumstances - be a different matter. When the Irish Referendum votes against divorce, Maeve, being a good Catholic, prepares to take action against Marcus.
Directed by JEREMY HOWE BBC Northern Ireland Stereo (R)
The fourth of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks to James Berry about his life and his poetry.
Reader MONA HAMMOND Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
Hammersmith's Pact with the Devil
Tonight the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith sets off on its most ambitious project - both parts of Goethe's Faust.
Paul Vaughan talks to those involved in bringing the story of Faust and Mephistopheles to the stage, including
Simon Callow , director David Freeman and composer Nigel Osborne.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters Letters to:
PM, BBC. London W1A 1AA
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN
Half an hour of reports from the BBC's correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen preside over a further series of cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the lobes.
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge
Jack Jones and Bill Russell Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester (R)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Headache? Sore throat? Blocked nose? Let compere Dave Cohen soothe those sinuses with a dose of the best, new stand-up acts from the Comedy Store,
Leicester Square, London. On prescription only.
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
Judges wield huge power in British society. Traditionally they have been reluctant to speak about it in public.
Breaking their silence, six judges from different levels of the court system talk to Hugo Young about their lives, their personal feelings about their jobs and the professional dilemmas they face every day.
5: Lord Ross, Lord Justice Clerk and Scotland's second most senior Appellate judge Producer ANNE SLOMAN
A series of seven programmes. Each week Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT. Stereo
Paul Allen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT
Leaving Home 8: Thanksgiving
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
