Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With THE VEN NOEL JONES Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for 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 final programme of the series Melvyn Bragg finds the art flourishing in some unlikely quarters. Aspiring amateur orators no longer have to wait for a family wedding for their chance to make a speech, as the members of the Sidcup Rugby Club, the Ladies' Circle in Runcom, and the Knightsbridge Speakers' Club testify.
Researcher SALLIEDAVIES Producer ANNE SLOMAN
(Re-broadcast next Wednesday)
Is there a new mammal - something halfway between a water shrew and a mole - in the Western Highlands? Jessica Holm and Lionel Kelleway investigate and report on the wildlife scene. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
reflecting the issues of the day Introduced from Broadcasting House, Bristol. BBC Bristol. Stereo
Robert Carvel talks to a quartet of public figures about their life and work.
1: Garret Fitzgerald Producer SHEILA COOK
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Roy Noble looks fondly at three pull-ins on life's journey which became more than casual stops. 1: Aberdare BBC Wales
Presented by John Howard
Help, advice and information about your consumer concerns
Clement Freud Derek Nimmo
Wendy Richard and Kenneth Williams try to stop each other talking for just a minute on subjects flung at them by Nicholas Parsons.
Devised by LAN 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: Sophie Goes Shopping Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Dune Old dunes and new dunes and survival in the sand at Studland near Swanage
2.20 Talk to Me
6: Oh No You Don't Doofy Knows Best! by ANITA HEWETT Stereo (R) (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry and Music) Come On In, the Water's Lovely by GARETH OWEN
2.40 Listen! The Do-It- Yourself Cliffhanger Serial Schools are invited to participate in creating a serial drama. Episode 6 by KEN JONES Stereo (e)
'That's another fine mess you got me into!' Does that catchphrase make you helpless with laughter? In the programme that identifies real sex differences, find out why women don't find Laurel and Hardy funny.
Serial: The Phoenix Tree (12) Presenter Jenni Murray
by MELVILLE JONES with and Peter is a rarity in today's world: he is a man of honour. He believes he owes society a debt for his good education and he is far too honourable to steal somebody else's wife.
Other parts played by STEVE HODSON and EMMA SUTTON Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGUN BBC Bristol Stereo
Nigel Forde presents the good books programme.
Producer NIGEL ACHESON
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Book details are on Ceefax page 266
(Revised broadcast of yesterday programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Rory Maclean
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20* Test Match Report
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With PKTEK DONALDSON
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
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC Bristol B58 2LR
(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 IAA Phone [number removed]
Lines open from 10.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday
Peter Vaughan presents the arts magazine which includes a visit to the York Festival for the cycle of Mystery Plays. Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.3Opm)
Riceyman Steps (14)
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
FM joins at 12.10
