Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With JAMES BUTTERWORTH. Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday 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 CUVE ROSLIN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVlLE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Although oratory is generally assumed to be dying, or irrelevant, hundreds of people are making speeches every day of the week.
Melvyn Bragg examines the state of the art in a Britain which can seem a Babel of public talk.
In the first of five programmes The Rt Hon Enoch Powell , Lord Jenkins of Hillhead and The Rt Hon Michael Foot , mp, compare the parliamentarians of today with the giants of the past. Researcher SALLIE DAVIES Producer ANNE SLOMAN
(Re-broadcast next Wednesday
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Fergus Keeling finds out how lions hunt, and Jessica Holm goes in search of wild British bonsai.
Producer MILES BARTON. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

live from the Christian
Resources Exhibition, Sandown, Surrey led by The Rev John Newbury

Four conversations in which Jenny Cuffe talks to men and women who find themselves outside the world to which they once belonged. 1: Sally Trench
When she was 16, Sally Trench left her comfortable middle-class home to join the dossers on London's bomb sites. Today her life still revolves around society's drop-outs. Producer JOY HATWOOD
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Four programmes about jobs 2: Arrivals and Departures Frances Paton and Jack Burnside , station announcers Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG (First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland)

Presented by John Howard

Clement Freud , Richard Murdoch , Derek Nimmo and Kenneth Williams try to talk for just a minute on subjects flung at them by Nicholas Parsons
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo

Presented by Nick Worrall

1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Dumplings in the Rain. Stereo
2.05 Looking at Nature Heath A visit to Studland Heath National Nature Reserve with TIMMY MALLETT (e)
2.20 Talk to Me
3: What Can You Do? Doofy Goes to the Seaside by ANITA HEWETT Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry and Music) Gunderstridge by R.C. SCRIVEN (R) (e)
2.40 Listen! The Do-It- Yourself Cliffhanger Serial (3) by VICKY IRELAND. Stereo (e)

David Bellamy introduces children to the natural delights of the roadside.
Serial:B-Movie(3)
Presenter Jenni Murray

A series of five stories 3. The Salt of the Earth by REBECCA WEST dramatised by SHELAGH FRASER with and
Jimmy Alice is the salt of the earth. She takes a keen interest in everyone around her and their problems - particularly their weaknesses and failings. But nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds - even if it is 'the salt of the earth'.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo ('Earth To Earth by Graeme Fife next Wednesday)

Leo Tolstoy , Vladimir Voinovich and Kurt Vonnegut - two Russians and an author posing as an Armenian-
American painter. Nigel Forde makes the connection. Producer JULIAN HALE
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

(Revised re-broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9.45pm)

Presented by Robert Williams 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 EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report

Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Introduced by Brian Gear
Producer LAURIE MASON. BBC Bristol Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

In the early 1930s the celebrated Polish violinist, Bronislaw Huberman , persuaded
European Jewish musicians to emigrate to Palestine to form a symphony orchestra - the forerunner of one of the world's great orchestras - the Israel Philharmonic. Fritz Spiegl talks to
Zubin Mehta , Itzhak Perlman Daniel Barenboim , Isaac Stern Shlomo Mintz and Lynn Harrell , who in 1986 came together in Tel Aviv to celebrate the IPO's 50th anniversary.
Producer JILLIAN WHITE. BBC Bristol
('Israel Philharmonic Orchestra' tomorrow at 11. 30am on Radio 3)
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(Details tomorrow at 11.00am LW)

Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC. London W1A 1AA
Phone [number removed]from 10.00am to 5. 00pm Monday to Friday

Presented by Christopher Cook Producer CARROLL MOORE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Slaughterhouse Five (9)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

12.30 Graphicacy: Symbols, Shapes and Spaces The first four episodes of Liftoff Ardua , a journey in space by iv an GOLLOP and JOHANNAH BALL Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS Stereo (R)(e)