with a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers.
With NORMA CRADOCK BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Peter Hobday
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON GOMPERTZ
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With JULIAN TUTT
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
A look ahead with Charlotte Green
by CHRISTABEL BIELENBERG abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Ann Morrish (1) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol (R) revised
with Melvyn Bragg join Melvyn and guests in the first of a new series of live and lively conversation.
Researcher JANE NUNNELEY
Producer MARINA SALANDY. BROWN Stereo
The Shark at the Top of the Stairs by BARRY DAVIES Read by Stuart Wilson Producer SHEILA FOX
live from the William Booth Memorial Training College, Denmark Hill, London Reading: John 6, vv 1-13
Hymns: Who is on the Lord's side? (Rachie); My life must be Christ's broken bread (Spohr); Christ, for the world we sing (Moscow)
Presented by Andrew Motion Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and ANDREW SACHS
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS. BBCBristol
Presented by Debbie Thrower Editor KEN VASS
Stereo (Details Thursday 6.30pm)
Presented by James Naughtie Editor MARTIN COX
1.55 Listening Comer KERRY SHALE reads Frog and Toad Stories by ARNOLD LOBEL Today's story: The Garden ' Producer MARY HAYDON. Stereo
2.00 Recorder Club Stage II, written and presented by DOUGLAS COOMBES with RACHEL BECKETT and TREVOR HUGHES (1) Producer PETER HUTCHINGS. Stereo (e)
2.2011-14 Project English Poetry Anthologies
1: Bikeshed Affairs by DAVE WARD 2: Hauntings by DAVE CALDER Producer JOHN TAYLOR. Stereo (e)
In the programme that puts women in the fast lane, Jenni Murray meets offshore power-boat racer Gina Campbell. Serial: Jane Eyre (10) by CHARLOTTE BRONTE abridged in 19 episodes by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by Juliet Stevenson Editor CLARE SELERIEGREY
A play by Howard Wakeling. Stereo
Peter Stein talks to Paul Allen.
Presented by Gordon Clough and Robert Williams
5.00, 5.30 News Summary
5.25PMLetters
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 written and presented by Russell Davies
Stereo
A series of sixconversations with Cliff Morgan 1: George Melly
Britain's most flamboyant jazz-singer. Are there people he calls 'heroes'?
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS (R)
One man's attempt to overcome self-doubt and nightmare leads him on a journey of discovery which brings him face to face not only with his relatives and friends, but also, among others, with Adam and Eve, and Pontius Pilate.
Stereo
Paul Theroux 's newly-published travels by train through China and Roman
Polanski's new film Frantic are included in today's magazine. Presented by Christopher Bigsby Producer FIONA MCLEAN
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
My Uncle Silas by H E BATES The first of five short stories abridged and read by David Neal 1: The Lily
Producer CHERRY COOKSON (R)
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
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