Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With JOHN SNELUNG Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30.8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.20,8.20 Olympic Sports Desk with GARRY RICHARDSON in Seoul and IAN BROWN in London
7.45* Thought for the Day

by Christabel Bielenberg, abridged in ten parts by Donald Bancroft
Read by Ann Morrish

'In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.'
ANDY WARHOL, 1968
In a series of six programmes, Jenni Mills talks to people who were famous for 15 minutes, and discovers what happened after their 15 minutes were up.
1: Erika Roe shot to fame in January 1982 when she ran topless across the pitch at Twickenham during a rugby international.
At the time she described it as 'just a sudden whim' but what effect has that run across the turf had on her life?
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS BBC Pebble Mill
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BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producers CAROLE LACEY and BERNARD THOMPSON

The Man from Cannes by YVONNE QUINN
Read by Kathryn Hurlbutt Producer LUCY LUNT BBC Pebble Mill

NEM p 97; Lord, thy word abideth (BBC HB 190); Psalm 29; Isaiah 6, vv 1-10; Put thou thy trust in God (BBC HB 313) Stereo

But the Melody Lingers On
David Crystal speaks loudly and quietly, quickly and slowly, and concludes that the speed, pitch and melody of the voice are almost more important than what is said.
Producer ALAN WILDING (R)

Presented by John Howard For information about this week's programme, write for Factsheet No 38: You and Yours. BBC, London W1A 1AA

The Story of Radio Comedy
In which Russell Davies traces the progress of those writers and performers who have turned to the wireless to keep Britain entertained through thick and thin.
Written by RUSSELL DAVIES
Producer NEIL CARGILL . Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Towser and the Terrible Thing by TONY ROSS Stereo
2.05 Let's Join In with Soundbox Zinty and Zip by JANETTA HOWIE Narrated by THORA HIRD producer COLIN SMITH Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree A Gaggle of Music Games (1) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Written and produced by BARRY GIBSON Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 The Friday Serial Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain and Tim and Charlotte by EDWARD ARDIZZONE Read by BERNARD CRIBBINS Producer DEREK FARMER (e)

from Birmingham
The programme that invites men to eavesdrop on what women really think about. Serial: Jane Eyre by CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Last of 19 episodes abridged by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by Juliet Stevenson
(Music: Leigh's Music for String Orchestra)
Presenter Sally Jones

by STELLA GIBBONS adapted in four parts by ELIZABETH PROUD with 3: Elfine's Rights
In which Flora's plots begin to thicken and she seems to be making headway over the tidying-up of the farm.
But she has reckoned without Aunt Ada Doom....
TERENCE ALLBRIGHT (piano) ALISON HURRY (violin)
Directed by IAN COTTERELL Stereo (R)

It's boom time in Warrington. But not everyone's feeling secure in this upwardly-mobile corner of the north west. A young reporter is worried about leaving her home town. There's a ghost in the photographer's darkroom. And a local enthusiast is dreaming of a Mad Hatter's theme park. 1: The Warrington Guardian A portrait in miniature of late 80s Britain.
Written and compiled by TONY WILKINSON
Producer JULIAN HALE

Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 Olympic Report
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs is in the driving seat with Tom Boswell firing on all cylinders; Alanah Martin signals extra directions as they consider transport on land, sea and air. Go with Going Places! Producer MOLLY PRICE-OWEN

BBC Pebble Mill

with Margaret Howard
Producer JULIAN HALE. Stereo

Lord Alexander, qc
Angela Rumbold , mp,
Minister of State for Education John Prescott , mp and Ann Mallalieu , qc tackle the issues raised in Seer Green, Buckinghamshire. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

The impact of Hurricane Gilbert on Jamaica and Central America, and the 1938 hurricane that destroyed a large part of the forests of New England, as discussed by Alistair Cooke.

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

by Alistair Cooke

Haitink's Ring
Bernard Haitink has been Music Director of the Royal Opera for a year now and he talks to Christopher Cook on the eve of his most ambitious project at Covent Garden. Next Friday he conducts the first night of the first opera in Wagner's Ring cycle -
Das Rheingold , and over the next three years he will be staging the remaining three operas in the cycle. Haitink talks about his work at the Royal Opera House and his Wagnerian nights.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY

The Iron Staircase (5)

Presented by Michael Vestey

The first of two programmes about the oddities of Olympic antics. The ancient sports of synchronised emperor-stabbing and kebab-throwing are analysed by the resident historian. There's also a feature on how the Russians train their athletes in the womb. With Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis
Written by STEVE PUNT Produced by BILL DARE

English Resources 2 - People Speaking
3: Talk at Work (R) (e)