Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With EDWIN ROBERTSON Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo

This week the team visits
Dorset, where members of the Stalbridge Garden Society put their queries to
Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Plant lists and topical tips are displayed on Ceefax page 188

Mother Wolfe and the Seven Little Kids by DIANA RAINFORD
Read by Lesley Manville Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM, p 114: Ye choirs of new
Jerusalem (BBC HB 116); 0 taste and see (Vaughan Williams); Hebrews 11, v 32 to 12, v 2
God of grace and God of glory (BBC HB 391) Stereo

How much power and influence is vested in Britain's leading institutions? Are they changing to meet the challenge of the late 80s? This third series takes a critical look at six more pillars ofsociety.
3: The Women s Institute
The WI is the largest and most widely-known women's organisation in Britain. Its roots are rural but it's now moving into the cities. The organisation is part of the very fabric of British society, but who are the hundreds of thousands of women who belong to the WI? What do they do? How true is the popular image of the WI as 'jam and Jerusalem'? Does the Institute truly represent the views of contemporary women? And how seriously is it viewed by those who govern the country? Lesley Abdela investigates. Producer VALERIE SANDERSON

From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure, Dilly Barlow attempts to answer your questions with advice from experts and help from the BBC Reference Library.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Questions to: Enquire Within, BBC, London W1A 1AA

Presented by John Buckley

by E. W. HORNUNG
A second series of six Raffles stories dramatised by david BUCK with and 4: A Bad Night
Raffles's plans to avenge a friend by robbing a private house in Hampton Court are thwarted by a prior engagement at Old Trafford, to play in the second test match against
Australia. Bunny, however, nobly steps into the breach ...
Music by JIM PARKER
Directed by GORDON HOUSE , Stereo
(A Radio 4/ World Service co-production)

Presented by Nick Worrall

Today's story: The Littlest Tugboat. Stereo (R)

You take your place in line each night and sing your heart out. But how many dedicated members of stage choruses ever make it to the spotlight? Find out in the programme in which men and women tell their own stories.
Serial: Of Flowers and a Village by WILFRID BLUNT abridged in six episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Richard Leech (1)
The late Wilfrid Blunt was a keen gardener, and this collection of fictional letters from a godfather (Wilfrid
Sharp!) to a goddaughter in hospital, is the rich result of a lifetime's gleanings of fascinating stories about plants and'plant people'.
(Music: Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos)
Presenter Jenni Murray

by DIANA GRIFFITHS with and
Harry Higginbottom is totally exhausted. Every night he is woken by the plaintive howls of an enormous black dog.
Strangely, his wife Lydia hears nothing at all, and when Harry begins to believe that he can do absolutely anything - even fly - Lydia is convinced he is completely insane. Whose reality is the better?
Directed by SUSAN HOGG BBC Manchester. Stereo

The last of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks with Jeni Couzyn. Reader LiANEAUKiN Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo

Britain - the tortoise or the hare?
Felicity Goodey reports on why Britain is lagging in the space race and losing out to emerging space powers - like Spain. Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester

Pop Goes Gospel
Gospel music, the fervent expression of black Pentecostal faith, is spreading out from its roots in the churches and into the pop music charts. It's a move that's already taken American gospel singers to stardom; now it's happening in Britain, led by performers like La vine Hudson from south London. She, like many other gospel musicians, refuses to tailor her performances to the demands of the music business: for her, the faith which inspires her singing comes first.
Paul Allen investigates the commercial success of gospel music.
Producer LIS EDWARDS

Presented by Hugh Sykes and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 Wimbledon Report
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continuedon FM 5.50-.5.55

With SIMON VANCE including Financial Report

In this week's quotation game, George Melly
Katharine Whitehorn
Julian Mitchell and Sue Limb recall the most quotable remarks ever made about them. Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer LISSA EVANS Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

(Details tomorrow at 9.05am)

Robert Cushman in conversation with Ian McKellen and Simon Callow Producer JONATHAN JAMES MOORE Stereo (R)

In the final programme of his examination of the state of the art of oratory, Melvyn Bragg finds it flourishing in some unlikely quarters. Aspiring amateur orators no longer have to wait for a family wedding for the chance to make a speech, as the members of the Sidcup Rugby Club, the Ladies' Circle in Runcorn, and the Knightsbridge Speakers' Club testify.

A series of eight portraits presented by Hugh 0' Shaughnessy. 5: Edgard Leal
Edgard Leal is managing director of a Venezuelan state-owned oil company. As the end of the financial year approaches, it's not his own annual results that worry him - he's concerned that Venezuela depends far too much on its oil industry.
Series producer MICK WEBB. Stereo

Prabhu Guptara presents tonight's arts magazine, which includes the new film with Charles Dance , Hidden City, showing a mysterious underside to contemporary London.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON

In My Wildest Dreams (3)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

FM joins at 12.10