The Monday feature on the farm or on the fringe of the farm, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers.
Producer TM FINNEY
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with MICHAEL HARDING
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON GOMPERTZ
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
A look ahead with David Symonds
finds some rich pickings among the well-coined phrases of the BBC Sound Archives. Producer JULIAN HALE
What has the week ahead in store? Anticipation and speculation with special studio guests.
Producer ELAINE BEDELL. Stereo
A Question of Money (2)
The Money Box team takes to the road to answer questions on personal finance put by listeners in Bournemouth. The panel: Louise Botting ,
Vincent Duggleby , Christopher Gilchrist , Nick Goulding
A season of morning stories for Easter
The Children of Grupp by PENELOPE LIVELY
Read by Roger Rees
Taking a skinny dip in the mysterious Medusa fountain didn't seem like a capital offence to Trevor. It was sweltering hot and anyway, he was proud of his firm young body. But what price presumption?
Producer SHEILA FOX
from Cardiff led by JOHN STUART ROBERTS
Cliff Morgan follows the course of the River Waveney in Suffolk, visiting the towns of Diss, Bungay and Beccles, the village of Harleston and Oulton Broad.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol. Stereo
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Kit Wright Readers ELIZABETH PROUD and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR Stereo
The only daily consumer programme on network radio Presented by Susan Rae Editor PAT TAYLOR
If you are concerned about health, education, housing or financial matters, or if you are the victim of incompetent or unhelpful traders or authorities, write to: You and Yours, BBC, London WIA 1AA
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain Chairman Robert Robinson First Round: London Colin Jeffries
(insurance broker)
Owen Gunnell (teacher)
Richard O'Farrell (bookseller) Michael Round (pianist)
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by LAN GILLIES Producer RICHARD EDIS
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines Editor MARTIN COX
This week: Sing a Song of Nonsense Poems by EDWARD LEAR Read by Christopher Lillicrap They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo (R)
The programme that puts a female perspective on politics, places and people, finance, fashion and food.
Presenter Jenni Murray Serial: Dangerous Love by LESLIE THOMAS abridged in nine episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Bruce Lidington (5) (Music: Hazell's The Cats) Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
A play by p. CARROLL and B. WASSERMAN Stereo
Prima
Maria Maria Ewing , the Americanbom soprano, described as 'the most interesting singing actress on the stage', is currently at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in the title role of Salome.
Sonia Beesley presents a profile of the singer. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25PMLetters Letters to:
PM, BBC, London WlA 1AA
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
More silly sitcommery with the frantic foursome....ÃÂ
Starring Kit Hollerbach as Kit, Jeremy Hardy as Jeremy, Caroline Leddy as Caroline and Paul B. Davies as Paul
It's time to don the pith helmets and banana-skin trousers and drive off to the Safari Park.... until the mysterious appearance of a cardboard Zulu, an exploding ostrich and a gorilla with a walkie-talkie...
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Presented by Derek Cooper
(Revised re-broadcast of last Friday 's programme)
Science on 4 Peter Evans selects highlights from recent research. With
Geoff Watts. Georgina Ferry and Alun Lewis.
A Radio Science Unit production
by STEPHEN BILL withand
John, a farm manager of 40, meets Belinda, a city girl half his age. Separated by age, outlook and politics, they somehow fall in love. Their affair causes disruption within the farming community and triggers passions that threaten the lives of the seemingly ill-matched couple.
Directed by PHILIP MARTIN BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
Presented by Michael Oliver Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
A Clergyman's Daughter by GEORGE ORWELL abridged in 10 parts
Read by George Baker (1)
Dorothy has a drab life looking after her father, the vicar of a parish in rural Suffolk. An
'incident' causes her to leave the shelter of her home. Her progress after that, through the England of the 30s, gave George Orwell an opportunity for one of his earliest pieces of social reportage.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Mention bagpipes and everyone thinks of the martial, Scottish variety, but the Northumbrian small pipes are altogether more domestic and mellifluous.
Richard Kelly , with the help of virtuoso pipers past and present, traces the revival of interest in this ancient instrument.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)
FM joins at 12.10am
