With THE REV DOUGLAS ALEXANDER Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor in London with Peter Hobday in New Orleans
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Ready by clive ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
7: On the China Sea Stereo
The Programme with Listener Power
You, the punters, report on your own stories with the help and support of Susan Marling and Nigel Farrell.
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
The last of five programmes starring
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.
Beside the Seaside
Narrator Christian Rodska Produced PETE ATKIN Stereo (R)
The tuatara is just one of the strange creatures native to New Zealand. It is a lizard-like reptile which has remained unchanged for 80 million years.
Fergus Keeling talks to conservationists who are trying to protect the tuatara, and other reptiles, against the ravages of animals introduced by man. Producer MILES BARTON BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
reflecting the issues of the day introduced from Broadcasting House. Stereo
Couples (2) by MIKE WALKER
Cast for the week:
Directed by A J QUINN
Stereo (Omnibus edition on Saturday)
A series of four conversations in which Derek Cooper hears from people whose theories about food were ahead of their time.
2: Diet for a Small Planet
A handout on food production, written in the idealistic 1960s when she was a student in California, led to the publication of Diet for a Small
Planet - Frances Moore Lappe's first book and a best seller. The international food and development experts were then all agreed that what the world needed if we were all to be fed was more technology, better hybrid crops, more pesticides, more fertilisers. Frances Moore Lappe said that those emperors had no clothes.
Derek Cooper talked to her on a recent visit to Britain. Producer SHEILA DILLON
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
After 12 years in London,
Martin Wainwright returned last year to work in his native Leeds, and was delighted by what he found. In a series of six talks, he explains what it is he likes about the North. 1: Gently Does It
In which a Londoner learns to adapt to a new pace oflife. Producer JOHN WATKINS
Help, advice and information about your consumer concerns. Presented by John Howard For information about this week's programme, write for
Factsheet No 33 to: You and Yours, BBC London W1A 1AA
by JOHN LE CARRE (2) Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines
Matilda Takes Part Stereo (R)
The programme that invites men to eavesdrop on what women talk about - and join in! Serial: The Colour of Murder (7) Presenter Jenni Murray
by PETER TERSON
Danny has recently lost his sight. He and Anthony decide to canoe down the Thames, with Anthony towing, from the source to Westminster. But
Anthony turns out to be blind in ways that Danny isn't, and perhaps it is a case of the blind leading the blind.
Other parts by JOHN ABINERI
ALAN DUDLEY , ANTHONY JACKSON BRUCE STEWART and MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES
Director SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol Stereo
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Brian Gear invites Sue Limb and Stephen Pile to pick some paperbacks.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Revised re-broadcast of yesterday programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Rory Maclean
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25* PM Letters
5.31* City News continuedon FM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Gay Search and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
A series of threeprogrammes 2: Alfredo Kraus
Teleri Bevan talks to the Spanish tenor about his long career in opera houses all over the world.
Producer MARK OWEN BBC Wales Stereo
Ferdi Dennis goes on a six-part journey into Afro-Britain.
In the 1970s the mobile disco was big business. These 'sound systems' had their own devoted followers, and the men who ran them a place in the community. But, in the 1980s, things are a bit different.
A series of six programmes 2: Elizabeth 'Battling Bessie' Braddock
(Details tomorrowat 11.32am)
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
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
Three programmes in which. with the benefit of hindsight, Glyn Worsnip goes into the BBC Sound Archives to discover whether Any Questions of yesterday remain unanswered today. 1: Morality
Producer viv BLACK
Natalie Wheen presents the arts magazine which tonight includes reviews of a new production of Oedipus from the Royal Shakespeare Company. and Radio 4's classic serial, an adaptation of Henry James's The Princess Casamassima. (Fridays, Radio 4).
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.3Opm)
The Countrywoman 9: The Seven Years
Presented by David Sells
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
FM joins at 12.10
