from the Royal Welsh Show at Builth Wells
with THE REV GRAHAM C'OOK Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys 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 BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Letters
Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo
This week the team visits North Yorkshire, where members of the Embsay-with-Eastby
Horticultural Society put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Grey Seal by AGNES WEDDERBURN
Read by Katherine Parr Producer SHEILA FOX
In 1688, under the monarch William of Orange, the foundations were laid for
Britain's present system of parliamentary democracy.
To mark the tercentenary of the 'Glorious Revolution' and Bill of Rights, there will be Anglo-Dutch celebrations throughout 1988 and 1989. Today HM The Queen and members of both the British and Dutch Royal Families join the Parliamentary celebrations at Westminster Hall.
There is an address from the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker followed by a speech from HM The Queen.
John Hosken is at Westminster Hall to describe this historic occasion.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
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When a group of young
Jamaicans set sail for Britain in 1941, they had no plans to settle. They came to help with the war effort but marriage, children and time overtook them. Talking to Alex Pascall , 47 years on, they recount, with humour, their hitherto untold stories of life in the mother country.
Producer MARINA SALANDY-BROWN (R)
Presented by John Buckley For information about this week programme. write for Factsheet No 29 to: You and Yours, BBC London W1A 1AA
An unlikely adventure in five episodes by ERIC PRINGLE
2: Our hopeless heroes are being hotly pursued by the avenging arm of the law and the underworld.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL. Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall
Come Along on a Caribbean Cruise with Me! Today: Coconut Woman. Stereo
The daily forum for women offers a heady blend of the timeless and the topical, the personal, practical and political.
Serial: The Oaken Heart (2) Presenter Dilly Barlow
by SUSANNAH GREEKBERG with receives a letter every birthday from the Queen. She thinks it will help her win a 'household fit for a queen' competition, and she gets busy cleaning up. But her single-parent daughter wants their high-rise cramped and choc-a-block, so that her social worker will give her a place of her own. How can they both win?
Directed by PETER KAVANAGH. Stereo
The fourth of five programmes in which George MacBeth continues his conversation with poet George Mackay Brown.
Reader JAMES BRYCE
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
Reporter Max Easterman Producer STEPHEN SACKUR Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
Waiting in the Wings
Time passes slowly while they wait by the telephone or in theatre dressing rooms. Then disaster strikes. The star is
'indisposed' and the understudy emerges from the wings.
Paul Vaughan talks to some of the actors and actresses who have been thrust into the limelight.
Producer FIONA MCLEAN
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 CHARLOTTE GREEN including Financial Report
What do Verdi's funeral, a brand of bubblegum and Mrs Thatcher 's film career have in common? They're all subjects of discussion, dissection and cogitation in this week's quotation game! With George Melly , Julian Mitchell Sue Limb and Katharine Whitehorn. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
Robert Cushman in conversation with Alan Ayckbourn and Peter Nicholls
Producer JONATHAN JAMES MOORE Stereo (R)
The Programme with Listener Power
A series of ten radio portraits in conversation, recollection and anecdote.
Editor ALASTAIR OSBOURNE
Natalie Wheen presents the arts magazine, which tonight includes a new biography of the poet Betjeman's early life, and the artists whose work doesn't stand still - the makers of automata.
Producer JULIAN MAY
The Bible in Spain (3)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
FM joins at 12.10
