Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With THE REV DOUGLAS ALEXANDER Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8,00 Today's News Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day

8: Eating in Canton Stereo (R)

Chris Dunkley , of the Financial Times, airs your comments on BBC programmes and policy, and puts your questions to the people responsible.
Producer JOHN WATKINS
(Re-broadcast on Sunday at 6. 15pm) Send your comments to: Feedback, BBC. London W1A 4WW

Producers CAROLE LACEY and BERNARD THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

The Hunter of Dry burn by BRIAN MCCABE
Read by Gerry Slevin
Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG BBC Scotland

NEM, p 114; Come, let us join our cheerful songs (BBC HB 122); Psalm 139; John 21, vv 15-19; How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (BBC HB 142) Stereo

Eight portraits presented by Hugh O'Shaughnessy 4: Patricia Lara
Why is Colombia so violent? This is the question that perplexes Patricia Lara as she works on an article for her newspaper, El Tiempo.
For a political journalist like her, it's an important week. Colombia is preparing for its first local elections, after a campaign marked by violence and killings.
Series producer MICK WEBB Stereo (R)

A series of sixprogrammes 2: Elizabeth 'Battling Bessie' Braddock
'What I rebel against is the tyranny of wealth and privilege and the glaring inequalities of our social system.'
Bessie Braddock grew up in a strong, radical, political tradition in Liverpool. The streets of the city in the early years of the century, full of hungry children and men without work, were important in her political education. As
MP for the Exchange Division of Liverpool from 1945-70, she fought for 25 years from the back benches for the working people to whom she had dedicated her life.
Written and presented by Hugh Sykes
Researcher MIKE WOOLF
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE

Call to Account
The Arts Council, with Anthony Everitt , its Deputy
Secretary General, is called to account by John Howard.

The Story of Radio Comedy in 12 programmes: Part 4 Russell Davies is deeply entrenched in the humour born of the pressures and privations of the Second World War.
STAINLESS STEPHEN. BILLY BENNETT and JACK WARNER gathered round microphones in the provinces to continue the tradition of the trouper and push forward into uncharted territories of radio humour. Hence - Garrison
Theatre, Happidrome and, with some help from the Allies, 'Hi Gang!'
Written by RUSSELL DAVIES Produced by NEIL CARGILL (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Brian Widlake

Matilda 's Holiday Stereo (R)

The daily forum for women offers a heady blend of the timeless and the topical, the personal, practical and political. Serial: The Colour of Murder (8) Presenter Sally Jones

by HENRY JAMES dramatised in five parts by BETTY DAVIES
3: The Vow
'For the next five years I must hold myself ready, when the summons comes, to do something that will probably cost me my life!'
Revolutionaries KEN CUMBERLIDGE
IAN TARGETT. RICHARD PEARCE
STEPHEN RASHBROOK
Storyteller RICHARD TATE MARY NASH (piano)
Directed by BETTY DAVIES. Stereo

In the last of six programmes offering an intimate view of working life in Lancashire, Phil Smith listens to the experiencesof theDustbin Men. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)

Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30* News Summary
5.25*PMLetters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55

With PETER DONALDSON
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

The weekend starts here with Barry Norman
Mike Dickin is on his portable phone with the Code Cracker clues.
'Worcester is the place to be this week, and if you think that's saucy, remember what's good for the goose is good for the gander.'
This week's Code Cracker symbol: - 10<-X
Producer IRENE MALLIS

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE. Stereo (Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)

The Future of the Seven Deadly Sins
3: Gluttony
Do we really eat and drink to excess? Is sniffing and snorting drugs part of being young? At New EndTheatre in Hampstead, London, the programme asks, in this age of conspicuous consumption, is gluttony any longer a sin? Chairman John Humphrys Researcher JO whiley Producers BILL MORRIS and PAUL KOBRAK
(Re broadcast tomorrow at 1.10pm)

President Reagan gives his farewell address at the Republican convention in Kansas. A heat wave, drought and forest fires continue to cause problems across the US.

Geoffrey Goodman presents a personal view of the week's newspapers and talks to the people behind the headlines. Producer JOHN FORSYTH

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

This evening's arts magazine is presented by Michael Oliver from the 1988 Edinburgh Festival and includes international Shakespeare from Britain and Japan and a report from the Fringe.... Michael Clark and Co in performance.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD (Re-broadcast next Monday)

The Countrywoman
10: Neddos Goes to School

Presented by David Sells

The first of two programmes in which Paul Merton introduces a comprehensive guide to the best shows to be found at the 1988 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Producers MARK
ROBSON DAVID TYLER and BILL DARE Stereo
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