The Monday feature on the farm or on the fringe of the farm.
Followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers.
Producers TIM FINNEY and DYLAN WINTER
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with THE RT REV DAVID KONSTANT. BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and John Humphrys
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON GOMPERTZ
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Charlotte Green
discovers the plurality of pleasure in the BBC Sound Archives Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
Jonathan Swift had some radical solutions to the problems of 18th-century Britain.
In the first of seven discussions Matthew Parris - in the company of the learned
Paul Barker , the loquacious
Jeff Nuttall and divers guests - considers some modest proposals for the improvement of our own condition.
1: The World of Business Some persons are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed, and I have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken to ease the nation of famine.... I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of goodfat child, which will make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat.
But what of enterprise culture in our own day? Research AMANDA MARES Producer ANNE HINDS
Editor ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester. Stereo
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Flowers for the Living by MAEDBH MALACHY
Read by Marcella Riordan Producer SHEILA FOX
from the Chapel of Olney Detention Centre, Rugby led by THE REV STEPHEN OLIVER Matthew 25, vv 31-46 Amazing Grace
Make me a channel of your peace; Rejoice, rejoice, stereo
Builth Wells
Stanley Ellis, John Grundy and Dr Juliet Barker take the waters in the Victorian spa town which once ranked alongside Biarritz and Baden-Baden.
And, in what's fondly described as the heart of Wales, they tackle the vexed question of why few people speak Welsh. Producer GEOFF SARGIESON BBC North East
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Fleur Adcock Readers ELIZABETH BELL and GARARD GREEN
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
The only daily consumer programme on network radio. Presented by Debbie Thrower Editor KEN VASS
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 IAA
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain Chairman Robert Robinson Fourth Semi-Final
Highest-Scoring Runners-Up David Spry (systems analyst) Robert Gleeson
(publisher's representative)
Jay Youngman (house spouse) David Edwards (teacher) The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES. Producer RICHARD EDlS Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines Editor MARTIN cox
This week: Adelaide's Naughty Granny by HILARY SHARPE 1: The Picnic Read by Molly Weir Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R) —
Politics, places and people, finance, fashion and food -
Dilly Barlow and guests puzzle out the meaning of life, love, and anything women worry about and laugh about together. Serial: The Oaken Heart (5) Editor CLARE SELERIEGREY
A play by RAYMOND CHANDLER Stereo
Blowing Your Own Horn
Barry Tuckwell is the only horn player in the world to pursue an exclusively solo career.
He talks to Michael Berkeley
Presented by Gordon dough and Valerie Singleton
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 Test Match report
5.25 PM Letters Letters to: PM, BBC London WIA IAA
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Presented by Derek Cooper
(Revised re-broadcast of last Friday programme)
by ROBIN GLENDINNING with and Ulster; a public school; Unionism; adolescence.
Political and sexual awakening clash head-on for Barry one terrible summer ...
Music performed by HENRY DAGG
Directed by JEREMY HOWE
Presented by Paul Vaughan and including Track 29, the new film scripted by Dennis Potter and directed by Nicholas Roeg. Producer SIMON BROUGHTON Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
The Bible in Spain by GEORGE BORROW abridged in 15 episodes by JOHN SCOTNEY Read by John Franklyn-Robbins (6) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
FM joins at 12.10
