from the Royal Show at Stoneleigh
With THE REV SHELAGH BROWN Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor
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 GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo
Clay Jones calls on the expert knowledge of Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Dick Robinson to answer Queries sent in by post. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Gardeners' Question Time. BBC POBox27. Oxford Road Manchester M60 ISJ
Lollipop by SARAH STRANGEWAYS Read by Rosemary Martin Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM, p 9; 0 worship the King (BBC HB 471); Psalm 19;
Matthew 8, w 1-13; 0 thou who earnest from above (BBC HB 362) 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 of society.
5: The British Medical Association
In its 156 years the British
Medical Association has ridden out the arguments raging around the medical profession from body snatching to the NHS crisis. Polly Toynbee questions whether its present high public profile indicates growing or diminishing influence. Producer JOHN FORSYTH
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 7.30pm)
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 WIA 1AA
tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day will affect you and your family.
Presented by Debbie Thrower
by E. W. HORNUNG
The last of six stories dramatised by DAVID BUCK with and The Gift of the Emperor
Raffles plans the most daring enterprise of his career - the theft of a jewel worth £100,000. But Inspector Mackenzie is hot on Raffles's trail, and our intrepid cracksman's luck finally runs out.
Music by JIM PARKER
Directed by GORDON HOUSE Stereo
(Radio 41 World Service co-production) (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines
LIZA GODDARD reads Abigail Tidies Up Stereo (R)
The programme that salutes feminists, freethinkers, fashion-followers and farmers includes a live report from the Royal Show at Stoneleigh.
Serial: The Healing Art (5) Presenter Jenni Murray
by DAVE SHEASBY with For 20 years Bernard has been criss-crossing the country with a great cultural heritage in his boot. And thanks to Bernard's selling skills there isn't a historical edifice in England without a Mansionprint in its shop. Except one.
Producer ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester Stereo (R)
In the second of five programmes George MacBeth continues his conversation with the Orkney poet
George Mackay Brown. Reader JAMES BRYCE Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Max Easterman Producer DAVID MILLER Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
Reel Tears
A season of weepies at the National Film Theatre aims to shed light on why audiences shed tears. Michael Oliver examines the handkerchief ratings of films as diverse as Paris, Texas and It's 's a Wonderful Life, and talks to film makers and critics about the cinema of moisture.
Producer CARROLL MOORE
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5,00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
Who sounds like Mickey Mouse on helium? Which highly respected prime minister made a pop song? And what are the favourite 'dewdrops' of Benny Green , Eleanor Bron Ian McKellen and CeliaHaddon?
Find out in this week's quotation game.
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
with John Waite and his team (Details tomorrow at 9.05am)
Robert Cushman in conversation with David Edgar and Trevor Griffiths
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo (R)
Three weeks in the lives of a group of Lichfield GPs
In 1942. as part of the war effort, a small group of women was recruited to work on the canal boats carrying cargo from the London docks to the Midlands. They were christened 'idle women' from the initials of the Inland Waterways.
Libby Purves talks to some of these 'trainees' about their far from idle life on the boats. Producer BRIDGET CARTER BBC Manchester (R)
Eight portraits presented by Hugh 0' Shaughnessy 7: Carmen Saenz
What we are trying to do is offer a conservative and democratic alternative to the Junta.
Carmen Saenz has rebuilt the Chilean National Party virtually single-handed. She describes the difficulties, and dangers, of mounting a political challenge to the Pinochet Government.
Series producer MICK WEBB. Stereo
The place that embroidery and sewing has traditionally held in the lives of women is questioned and illustrated in a new exhibition at Manchester's Whitworth Gallery.
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer KATE WHITEHEAD
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow 4.35pm)
by Malachi Whitaker abridged in eight episodes by Elizabeth Bradbury.
Read by Stephanie Turner.
The autobiography of the Yorkshire writer, once called the Bradford Chekhov. An insight into the pleasures, sadnesses and preoccupations of a remarkable woman.
BBC Manchester. Stereo
Info: page 77
with Alexander MacLeod
FM joins at 12.10
