With THE REV DAVID CHILLINGWORTH
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo
This week the team visits
Essex, where members of the Ardleigh and District
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. POBox27. Manchester M60 1SJ Plant lists and topical tips are displayed on Ceefax page 188
Night Riders by MICHAEL A. PEARSON
Read by Timothy Kightley
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
NEM, p 25; All for Jesus (Bp 2); Psalm 86; James 1, vv 19 -27; What does the Lord require (BP98) Stereo
A series of ten programmes that takes life as the microphone finds it.
8: A View from the Bed
Even a brief stay in hospital is a worry, especially if it's the first time 'inside'. Illness has to be confronted with unknown faces, uniforms, and an unfamiliar routine. But a hospital ward is also a close community. Relationships build quickly, problems are shared and intimacies are soon exchanged. After 24 hours the outside world retreats.
In the Hospital for Women, in Soho, London, the patients all have 'women's troubles' - but the treatment isn't the only thing to affect those who come to stay....
Producer SHARON BANOFF Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
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 For information about this week 's programme. write for Factsheet No 16: [address removed] Please send sae
The convoluted chronicle, in six parts, of an optimistic author starring and with Margot Boyd Pauline Letts and Brian Haines 1: The Present
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE (R)
Presented by Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines
Tales from the Tub (3) Stereo (R)
In the programme which puts a female perspective on life, love and literature, Jenni Murray meets the American writer Mary Daly , who has just written the Intergalactic Wickedary of the English
Language - 'new words and weird essays for wise women'. Serial: Helen of Burma (2)
by MARGARET ROBERTSON with and Edith is old - her physical beauty gone - but her need to analyse and learn from her past is stronger than ever.
'There must be some sense to be made of it all, all that passion and ambition, all those mistakes, all that wasted time. I've got to hang on, don't you see. Tomorrow might be my day of enlightenment.' Directed by SUSAN HOGG BBC Manchester Stereo
The first of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks to Dannie Abse about his life and poetry.
Reader ANTHONY HYDE Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
The official record for a human life stands at 120 years and 237 days. The majority, of course, will not make the century, but life expectancy is rising; a young man today can look forward to reaching 73, a young woman to around 80. Will this trend continue, or is there a limit beyond which humans are not made to last? Georgina
Ferry examines this question, in the light of the latest biological ideas about ageing, and discovers from scientists, doctors and the elderly if there is anything people can do to give themselves the best chance of surviving to a healthy old age.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN (R)
The Mahabharata
Peter Brook's dramatisation of the ancient Hindu epic was premiered in a quarry at the Avignon Festival in 1985. Since then it has played round the world, collecting rave reviews from California to Australia.
Now it gets its British showing in the Old Museum of Transport in Glasgow. Paul Allen talks to Brook and his company about their staging, which takes nine hours to perform.
And Prabhu Guptara reviews a tale central to Indian religion, philosophy and folklore - the Bible, Shakespeare and Star Wars rolled into one! Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
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 CLIVE ROSLIN
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
Brian Thompson and Michael Bowen
Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester (R)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Presented by David Lomax
The last programme in the series in which dozens of young comedians and musicians have been plucked from obscurity to shine in a blaze of oblivion. Or perhaps become the leading humorists of tomorrow?
Transmitted nearly live from the Comedy Store, London. Compered by Tony Hawks Producer BILL DARE Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
British eccentricity and a small herd of elephants trundle through remote communities in France and Italy as Ian Botham and entourage re-create
Hannibal's great march across the Alps.
Pat Murphy, who has been at
Botham's elbow throughout the extraordinary trek, presents an inside view of the event, capturing the drama, hardship and humour of the arduous 450-milejourney. Producer BRIAN KING BBC Pebble Mill
The third of seven programmes in which Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT Stereo
Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.35pm)
A Clergyman's Daughter (8)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
FM joins at 12. 10am
