Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With THE RT REV DAVID KONSTANT 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 BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
The Programme with Listener Power
You, the Punters, report on your own stories with the help and support of Susan Marling and Eric Robson.
You ask the questions and investigate an intriguing range of life's injustices, problems and quirks. Join the Punters chase for answers and share the informative, entertaining and often unexpected results.
Produced by the PUNTERS TEAM Editor MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
If you would like to take part in Punters write, with address and telephone number, to: Punters. BBC Radio 4 Bristol BS8 2LR or telephone Bristol (0272) [number removed]
by PETER TINNISWOOD in five episodes starring with
Carter Brandon was given a week off work. So he decided he would spend the time taking day trips in his car. Uncle Mort went with him. This is what happened.
2: Fallen Comrades
Narrator Christian Rodska Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo (R)
Portland Bill in Dorset is famous for its bird life, but in summer some rather different animals are on the wing. At this time of year you can see more species of butterflies - including the elusive blues - than anywhere else in Britain. Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm present news from the wild world. Producer HELEN ODAMS BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
reflecting the issues of the day. Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
Read All about It (2) Stereo (Omnibus edition on Saturday)
In the third of four programmes, Larry Harris delves into the dailies for the stories that hit the news on a guest's date of birth. What hit the headlines and why? Producer KATHRYN MOORE BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Fourth of six programmes Bruce Sandison talks with Christopher Lowell about Loch Awe in Argyll.
(First broadcast on BBC Scotland)
Help, advice and information about your consumer concerns presented by John Howard
Heavy Weather by P.G. WODEHOUSE (3) Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines
4: The Chimney Sweep (R)
In the programme that celebrates the achievements of women throughout the world, Dilly Barlow meets
Janice Honeyman , one of the artistic directors of the Market Theatre of Johannesburg, a company deeply committed to its black audience.
Serial: The True Story of Spit MacPhee by JAMES ALDRIDGE abridged in nine episodes by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE
Read by Nigel Graham (1) When young Spit MacPhee comes to live with his grandfather, the small
Australian town of St Helen fears for his future. For Fyfe MacPhee , although a skilled clock repairer, is a crazy old man.
(Music: Lloyd Webber's Variations for Cello and Six-Piece Rock Band)
by Stewart Love
with Mark Mulholland as the slide-rule engineer
John Irwin is only 48, yet the world of the 1940s and 50s in which he was born and brought up seems to have vanished. That is the world he belonged to, and trying to cope with the uncertainties of the 80s is not easy.
BBC Northern Ireland
(Stereo)
Brian Gear invites Nick Davies and Martyn Harris to pick some paperbacks.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Revised re-broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9.45pm)
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 SIMON VANCE
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by Caroline Parsons Producer LAURIE MASON BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Martin Luther King dreamt of a time when all Americans would be free and equal at last. When he died, he believed that dream was close to becoming a reality. He had seen the promised land, he said, the night before he was shot.
Martin Luther King died 20 years ago, but for many black
Americans the promised land is still not in sight. They may be free, but when will they be equal?
Presented by Sally Hardcastle Producer JOLYON MONSON (R)
Fifty years ago, the blue streamlined Mallard broke the world record for steam engines. reaching 126mph - a record which still stands. Piers Bishop tells of the record attempt and traces the rivalry between two great railway engineers in the 'Golden Age of Steam'. Producer IVAN HOWLETT
BBC North East. Stereo (R)
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PHASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC. London W1A 1AA Phone [number removed]
Lines open from 10.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday
Presented by Christopher Cook and including reviews of the Kirov and Australian Ballet companies and the concert tour by Prince.
Producer FIONA MCLEAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
The Bible in Spain (9)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
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