With FR RAYMOND O'SHEA
Presented by Brian Redhead 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 CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Although oratory is generally assumed to be dying, dead or irrelevant to the new technologies of communication, hundreds of people are, in fact, making speeches every day of the week. In the fourth of five programmes on the state of the art, Melvyn Bragg talks to some of those who regularly make public speeches as part of their job: in the law courts, in churches and chapels, at sales conferences and on the professional after-dinner circuits.
Researcher SALLIE DA VIES Producer ANNE SLOMAN
Banana cockroaches, crazy ants, lizards, rats and a black widow spider are just some of the passengers found travelling on board aircraft without tickets or passports.
Are these jet-set pests harmless cabin-mates or potentially dangerous stowaways? Jessica Holm and Lionel Kelleway present news from the wildlife world. Producer HELEN ODAMS BBC Bristol
Introduced from Broadcasting House, Bristol
BBC Bristol. Stereo
In the last of four conversations with people who describe themselves as outsiders, Jenny Cuffe meets
Tom Callaghan from Newcastle uponTyne.
Now 64, he's spent most of his life on the road.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
'As valuable to Britain as North Sea oil - a great natural resource!'
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
Presented by John Howard
Clement Freud , Peter Jones Christopher Timothy and Lance Percival try to stop each other talking for just a minute on subjects flung at them by Nicholas Parsons. Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Wee Chick, Big Eddie and the Dragon Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature March timmy MALLETT searches for dragonfly launchpads, a sphagnum sponge and the insect-eating sundew, (e)
2.20 Talk to Me
5: Bees Don't Sneeze Doofy plays games by ANITA HEWETT Stereo (R) (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry and Music) Sea Creatures by ANITA HEWETT (R)(e)
2.40 Listen! The Do-It- Yourself Cliffhanger Serial Schools are invited to participate in creating a serial drama. Episode 5 by VICKY IRELAND Stereo (e)
In the programme that explores the details of women's lives, Andrea Adams asks whether the rising popularity of the padded bra signals a return to traditional roles, or perhaps the assertion of a new confidence. Serial: The Phoenix Tree (7) Presenter Jenni Murray
by STEVE MAY with Paul, a youth worker and bit of a do-gooder, wants to make his mark at Ringworm, the unemployment capital of the North. Fred, an ancient gardener on the local allotments, teams up with him to show him what's what.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo
Nigel Forde savours the full splendour of the medieval world with Sharon Penman , whose new novel, Falls the Shadow, is published this week.
Producer WILL CANTOPHER
(Revised 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 SIMON VANCE
Half an hour of reports from BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by Brian Gear Producer LAURIE MASON BBC Bristol
(Details tomorrow at 11.00am L W)
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC, London WIA 1AA Phone [number removed]
Lines open from 10.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday
Nigel Andrews presents tonight's arts magazine, which includes a round-up of the week's best films.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
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Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international bus'ness report; market trends
Voix de France French VI Part 2: La France des affaires (2) (R) (e)
