Close to Portmeirion in North Wales, the descendants of Clough Williams-Ellis are trying to make a living from trees without any Government help. Tim Finney has been to see them.
With ROBERT PATTERSON
Presented by John Humphrys with Peter Hobday in London and Brian Redhead in Moscow
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.20* Your Letters
Write to: Today Letters, BBC London WIA 1AA
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
2: The Leaf-Sweeper
Read by Diana Olsson
Nick and his studio guests want to hear your views on a subject in the headlines.
Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 00am
What's new in medical science? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer PETER CROASDALE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 8. 15pm)
Not Worth the Risk by JEANNE FEASEY
Read by Eileen O'Brien Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
New Every Morning, page 5; Lead us, heavenly Father (BBC HB 307); Psalm 121;
Genesis 12, vv 1-9; How are thy servants blest (BBC HB 305) Stereo
Picking Up Your Options (1) by LEIGH JACKSON
Cast for the week:
Directed by MARILYN imrie. Stereo
Radio Pictures of Ladakh
In the last of four programmes, radio photographer
Tim Malyon puts you behind the viewfinder of his camera on an assignment in this remote region of the Himalayas.
The Leaping Land of Wanla Producer NIGEL ACHESON
investigates your complaints and provides help, advice, news and information about your day-to-day concerns. Editor KEN VASS
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
The 1988 world tour continues at Redbourn Cricket Club.
Brian Johnston umpires the proceedings, and captains
Tim Rice and Willie Rushton are assisted by Benny Green and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Written by PETER HICKEY and MALCOLM WILLIAMSON
Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines Editor MARTINCOX
RICHARD BRIERS reads The Night the King Could Not Sleep (R)
by MIKE WALKER with Catherine Clarke as Sharon and Christopher Chescoe as Terry
'What if we were the last people on earth? Just sitting and watching, waiting for the end? It would be beautiful. Beautiful and sad, like butterscotch ice-cream.'
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER. Stereo
Richard Baker talks to two of this country's most successful orchestral managers,
Michael Vyner of the London Sinfonietta, and Ed Smith ,
Chief Executive of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. How have they succeeded in winning audiences in the face of diminishing arts funding?
Producer JUDITH ROLES . Stereo
There's No Place Like Ham
A nationwide link-up of towns and villages with strange and silly names.
Reporters Neil Walker and David Clayton visit Crackpot, New York and Loose.
Members of the 'Idle' Working Men's Club and the 'Ugley' Women's Institute have well-practised answers to all the predictable jibes. But, like the villagers from 'Ham' and 'Sandwich' in Kent, they still can't stop outsiders from stealing their road signs. Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
0 YOURS LOCALLY: page 90
Presented by Hugh Sykes and Valerie Singleton
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25PMLetters
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55
with PAULINE BUSHNELL in London and GORDON CLOUGH in Moscow including Financial Report
An eight-part comedy by ALEX SHEARER
3: A Tooth for a Tooth starring with featuring and There is as yet no extradition agreement between the UK and the People's Republic of.... wherever it is. But some kinds of accusation cannot be lightly brushed aside.
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo (R)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Details tomorrow at 4. 05pm)
6: Record Breakers
Stereo
Three magistrates preside over their court from on high. But who is the person who sits beneath them, who whispers in their ear and who is called to join them when they retire to consider a case?
John Howard , a former practising solicitor, returns to the world of the magistrates' court to find out. Producer BRIAN KING BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.00am)
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All radio is for the blind, so why do they need a special programme? Tune in to Ian Macrae to find out. Producer THENA HESHEL
Questions and comments regarding the programme can be phoned through to the 'In Touch' team tonight between 8.30 and 10. 15pm on [number removed]. A free quarterly bulletin summarising broadcast information is availablefrom: [address removed]
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Natalie Wheen presents the arts magazine which includes a review of the Royal Opera House's new production of Anna Bolena by Donizetti, starring Dame Joan Sutherland.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
Riceyman Steps (2)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod Editor BLAIR THOMSON
FM joins at 12.10am
