with CANON JOHN GUNSTONE. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
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
8.50* Letters
Write to: Today Letters BBC, London WIA 1AA
Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo
This week the team visits
Hereford, where members of the Leominster and District Gardening Club put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Dick Robinson
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
The Weighing Up Written and read by Angela Huth
Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM, p 58; Light's glittering morn bedecks the sky (BBC HB 108);
Psalm 100; Mark 2, vv 13-22; 0 word of God incarnate (BBC HB 191) Stereo
How much power and influence is vested in Britain's leading institutions? Are they changing to meet the challenge of the late 80s? The last in a series of sixprogrammes.
The Zoological Society of London
Do memories of childhood days at the zoo cloud our impressions of this society founded in the Victorian age? What is the zoo's role in the education of today's children and the survival of endangered species?
Hugh Prysor-Jones investigates the science and the sentiment behind one of Britain's best-loved 'days out'.
Producer JAMES LEATON GRAY
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 John Buckley 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
An unlikely adventure in five episodes by ERIC PRINGLE
1: A change in the weather is about to alter the lives of two innocent ladies from Shropshire who become entangled with a couple of Cockney crooks.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL. Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
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Presented by Nick Worrall
Brothers and Sisters Poems read by MICHAEL ROSEN Stereo (R)
During the hour when you can meet the women behind the headlines and those who write them, Jenni Murray talks to Eve Pollard, Editor of the Sunday Mirror.
Serial: The Healing Art (10)
byjIMMIECHINN
Leslie Latchmour lives alone, except for the memories of his sad, hilarious life. He asks you to join him and share for a while his life, his loves, and the haunting pain of those he's lost. It's a life he faces with a special kind of courage. with Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo
The third of five programmes in which the Orkney poet
George Mackay Brown talks to George MacBeth. Reader JAMES BRYCE
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Helen Boaden
Producer BRENDAN MCCARTHY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
Scratching a Living
Jackie Kay is a poet and playwright in her 20s, whose work has appeared widely in magazines, though she hasn't yet published a book. Nick Herrett is a performer and writer, whose one-man shows have won rave reviews. But he's still performing to a handful of people in a room above a pub. Kaleidoscope keeps a diary of their attempts to scratch a living from their art. Producer JULIAN MAY
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5,00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM5.50-5.55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
Humphrey Lyttelton Martin Jarvis
Gemma O'Connor and Dr Stefan Buczacki choose their favourite quotations about actors and acting, and suggest pithy comments for visitors' books! Devised and presented by Nigel Rees. Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Presented by Peter Day
Robert Cushman in conversation with Mike Alfreds Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo (R)
'They are time capsules.... it's as though the tide of agricultural progress receded, leaving some things on the strand line.'
Soay sheep were domesticated at the dawn of agriculture and saddleback pigs were once leaders in their class. Now they are historical curiosities.
Colin Tudge discovers how these, and a distinguished cast of other domestic animals, were almost lost in the face of commercial pressure, and considers whether such breeds may not still have a role to play. Producer AUSON RICHARDS (R)
Rubens Barbosa
The last in a series of eightportraits presented by Hugh 0' Shaughnessy.
Brazil, the biggest country in Latin America, has gained territory from all of its neighbours by diplomatic rather than military means. Rubens Barbosa , an ambassador living in Brasilia, describes his career and reveals some of the tricks of a diplomat's trade.
Series producer MICK WEBB Stereo
Book £11.95 hardback, £6.95 paperback, from booksellers
Tony Palmer presents the arts magazine, which tonight includes Be Bop a Lula,
Bill Morrison 's new play set in the rocking 60s and premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse. Producer CARROLL MOORE
And So Did I (6) Stereo
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
