The Sting
More is becoming known about why bees are attracted to certain crops and not to others. The National Bee-Keeping Unit has been researching this, and also running special courses for farmers to learn at first hand the benefits bees can offer them. David Addis reports.
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with ROBERT PATTERSON. BBC Wales
Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe in London with Brian Redhead in Moscow
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
A look ahead with Clive Roslin
1 Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse Read by Phyllida Hewat Producer STEWART CONN BBC Scotland (R)
A celebration of the talents of Kenneth Williams
The Sea Day by ELIZABETH MCGREGOR Read by John Halstead Producer SHEILA FOX
from the International Conference of the Elim Pentecostal Church at Bognor Regis, West Sussex led by STEPHEN OLIVER
Hymns (NRH): With gladness we worship (16); If I but knew thee (99); Blessed assurance (517) Reading (RAV): Matthew 13, w 1-9. Stereo
Scruffy little ponies, rides along the Icknield Way, bathing in the Thames - weekends at 'the cottage' in South Oxfordshire absorbed author Monica Dickens 's childhood. Today she returns on a pilgrimage.
Producer LYN HARTMAN. BBC Bristol
Presented by Charles Tomlinson Readers DIANA BISHOP and PATRICK ROMER
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBC Bristol. Stereo.
Chairman Robert Robinson First Round: North West David Hesp (lecturer) John Kerridge
(scientific administrator)
Glenys Hopkins (civil servant) Andrew Grealey
(principal welfare rights officer) Programme devised by JOHN P WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Brian Widlake in London, with Gordon Clough reporting throughout the week on the Moscow Summit.
RICHARD briers reads King Fuss-a-Lot Looksfor a Hobby by DIANA STOW Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
Facts, fiction and fantasy, finance, fashion and food -
Jenni Murray and guests puzzle out the meaning of life, love and anything women worry about and laugh about together. Story: A Book of Spells
Three stories by SARA MAITLAND abridged by DOREEN ESTALL Read by Jill Gascoine
2: The Wicked Stepmother's Lament
A comedy by FELICITY DOUGLAS and HENRY CECIL with BASIL DAWSON
from the book by HENRY CECIL A tribute to
Andrew Cruickshank , who died this month.
This play opened in the West End in 1965 and ran for 704 performances. In this 1975 radio production,
Andrew Cruickshank re-created one of his most memorable stage performances. and members of the CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT Adapted and directed by JOHN TYDEMAN. Stereo (R)
Art and Seoul
Christopher Cook explores the South Korean culture clash just a couple of months before the Olympic Games in Seoul.
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Bill Frost with special reports today, and through the week, from Gordon Clough at the Moscow Summit.
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.15* Bank Holiday Travel Round-Up
5.31* Sports News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
with BRIAN PERKINS in London and GORDON CLOUGH in Moscow
Another romp through the sleazy pages of the Star, the Sun, the Mirror and the Daily Telegraph with Richard Ingrams , Alan Coren and Barry Took. This week's guests are the rumbustious
Joan Bakewell and the svelte Bill Tidy.
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
with Derek Cooper
(Revised re-broadcast of last Friday's 's programme)
Science on 4 Peter Evans selects highlights from recent research. with reports from Geoff Watts
Georgina Ferry and Alun Lewis A Radio Science Unit production
by EDUARDO DE FILIPPO translated and adapted by CARLO ARDITO with and Naples. 1946: former prostitute Filumena Marturano decides it is time she married the unwilling Domenico Soriano, the man with whom she has been living for 25 years. By use of a cunning ruse, marry him she does. But it is not just for herself that Filumena wishes to legalise this union.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN. Stereo
Michael Oliver presents tonight's arts magazine which includes a review of a major biography of Ezra Pound.
Best known for his editing of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land, he was, as Humphrey Carpenter 's book emphasises, a poet, critic and a 'serious character'.
Also, a review of a modern art exhibition - realist painting from Melbourne in the 1940s - at the Hayward Gallery, London, called Angry Penguins. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
Riceyman Steps by ARNOLD BENNETT abridged in 15 parts by DOREEN MAHON
Read by Martin Jarvis (1)
Henry Earlforward has two main passions in life.
One is money. The other is the widow Violet Arb. Their lives are to be changed dramatically. Producer GERRY JONES (R)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
FM joins at 12.10am
