Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
with MICHAEL HARDING. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
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* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo
This week the team visits
Winterslow, where members of the Winterslow Horticultural Society put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Questions, on postcards only, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 ISJ Plant lists and topical tips are displayed on Ceefaxpage 188
A season of morning stories for Easter
Visions of Alicia by JANE COLES
Read by Timothy West
Eric was making a last-ditch bid for freedom. Via British Rail. Naturally. Drinking whisky with a wicked girl in strawberry-coloured lipstick. In the buffet car. And after that.... Rome? Paris? Newark-on-Trent?
NEM, p 122; There is a land of pure delight (BBC HB 254);
Psalm 100; I Thessalonians 4, w 13-18; Angel voices ever singing (BBC HB 256) Stereo
A series often programmes that takes life as the microphone finds it - funny or sad, strange or poignant, occasionally worrying, always surprising. 7: The Male Order Business 'Attractive, tall, classy brunette' is how
Colette Sinclair describes herself when she advertises in 'Lonely
Hearts' columns. Colette set a two-year time limit to find the perfect husband, and she's determined to succeed. Her mission has resulted in newspaper articles, an appearance on Wogan, and a book in the pipeline. The inevitable blind dates have brought her some happiness and some heartbreak - but time is running out....
Producer CATHERINE MAHONEY
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 W1A 1AA
tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day will affect you and your family
Presented by John Buckley
The final part of a thriller serial by R. D. WINGFIELD with and 5: The Killer
We are very close to the real murderer now - and Chadwick has some explaining to do ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo (R)
Presented by Gordon Clough
On the Top of the Crumpetty Tree the Quangle Wangle Sat Stereo (R)
In the programme where you meet the people behind the headlines, Jenni Murray talks to Margaret Jay , Director of the newly-established National Aids Trust.
Serial: Dangerous in Love (7)
by ANDREW LIND withand
'Middle-aged man with sense of humour and 40-foot ketch seeks lively lady companion to share world cruise.' Alec doesn't get a very encouraging response to his ad - none of the ladies who respond could be described as lively, and he's forced to consider a schoolmarm who's not even sure what a ketch might be.
Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo
The last 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
It's predicted that, in the early years of the next century, employers will be queuing up to offer jobs to young people. But does that mean that long-term unemployment will disappear? Or will there be groups of people out of work for so long that they have become unemployable? Brian Redhead and his guests discuss the prospects for employment and think about strategies which will help everyone who wants a job to have one.
Consultant JOHN ATKINSON
Researchers CLARE HASTINGS and DOROTHEE WIGGINTON
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE
Borderline Theatre
William Burdett-Coutts has moved on to become director of Glasgow's Mayfest, following his success story at Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms. Jenny Killick is Artistic Director of the Traverse, which is celebrating 25 years of supporting new playwrights, and Bill Bryden is BBCtv's head of drama in Scotland
. Christopher Cook discusses with all three the current climate on new writing north of the border. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
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 EUGENE FRASER 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 Robert Kernohan and Richard de Marco
Researcher AMANDA MARES Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester (R)
Loosen your tie, unlace your corsets and send small children out of the room; it's time for another half hour of mature wit from the Comedy Store, Leicester Square, London where compere Dave Cohen introduces the best new stand-up acts on the circuit. Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
Last programme in the series 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. 6: Lord Templeman, one of the 11 Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. Producer ANNE SLOMAN
In the second of seven programmes, Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT. Stereo
Presented by Christopher Bigsby
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at
4.35pm)
A Clergyman's Daughter (3)
with Alexander MacLeod
FM joins at 12.10am
