with a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers.
Producers TIM FINNEY. DYLAN WINTER
With THE REV DAVID OGSTON BBC Scotland Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and John Silverman in London and Sue MacGregor at the Trades Union Congress in Bournemouth
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON GOMPERTZ
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by charlotte GREEN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
with Peter Donaldson
by NICHOLAS BEST abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by James Saxon (6)
The last of seven discussions. Matthew Parris , with Paul Barker , Jeff Nuttall and guests, considers the improvement of our condition. Education
'Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has between man and brute....'
Researcher AMANDA MARES Producer ANNE HINDS
Editor ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester. Stereo
Jeanine McMullen meets the decision makers and visits the workers who shape life in rural Britain.
Producer MARY PRICE. BBC Bristol
The Iron Bridge by jo DIXON Read by Pat George Producer DAVE SHEASBY BBC North East
from St Andrew 's and St George's Church, Edinburgh led by THE REV ANDREW MCLELLAN with the choir of ST THOMAS OF
AQUIN'S SCHOOL. EDINBURGH Reading: Isaiah 6, w 1-8
Hymns: Praise ye the Lord (CH3 347); Angel voices, ever singing (cH3 455); Christ is alive!
Organist LINDSAY SINCLAIR Producer JOHNSTON MCKAY BBC Scotland
Dundee, 'City of Discovery', is
Cliff Morgan 's destination as he completes his Tayside journey. He does some stargazing at the Mills Observatory and learns more of the life of the poet William McGonagall. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presented by Nigel Forde Readers ANGELA DOWN and GEOFFREY BEEVERS Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by Debbie Thrower Editor KEN VASS
If you have a problem, or if you require information about this week's 's programme (ask for Factsheet No 36) write to: You and Yours. BBC. London W1A 1AA
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell Questions compiled by MICHAEL O'DONNELL
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
James Naughtie , former Chief Political Correspondent of the Guardian, joins the restyled programme as its main presenter.
Editor MARTIN cox
This week Animals on the Move Today: Walter Crumpton and the Three Welsh Sheep by KATE WILKINSON Read by Christopher Lillicrap Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo (R)
A play by IAN CULLEN. Stereo
Writers by Writers
Humphrey Carpenter , himself a biographer, investigates literary biography with the help of fellow-practitioners Michael Holroyd , Claire Tomalin , Hilary Spurling , Andrew Motion and Ian Hamilton.
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough , with reports from the Trades Union Congress in Bournemouth.
5.00, 5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters Letters to: PM. BBC London W1A 1AA
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
The Story of Radio Comedy with Russell Davies
Stereo
Tony Wilkinson presents the last of six reports from Britain's local weekly newspapers. The Ulster Gazette
Another week, another shooting. But some things are best left unsaid.
Producer JULIAN HALE (R)
by BERNARD KOPS with Elizabeth Bell as Bella David Swift as Ron Alfred Molina as Maxie and Alan Barker as Frank
1948: the anarchist occupants of the Kafe Kropotkin in Soho argue and dream and plan to change the world. The arrival of a new comrade, Frank, is to have a devastating effect on them all, as a series of events forces the comrades to come face to face with themselves.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON . Stereo
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One of this country's leading chamber ensembles displays the lighter side of its repertoire. Bryan Allen (trumpet)
Andy Culshaw (trumpet) Stephen Roberts (horn)
Simon Hogg (trombone) and Richard Sandiland (tuba) Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
Presented by Christopher Cook. Barry Millington reports, as this year's Bayreuth Festival closes, on the reaction to
Kupfer's new Ring cycle; plus a review of the film Biloxi Blues, directed by Mike Nichols. Producer NOAH RICHLER
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
The Warden
6: Eleanor's Self-Sacrifice
Presented by Richard Kershaw including special reports by Larry Harris from the Trades Union Congress in Bournemouth.
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
FM joins at 12.10
