Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and Weather forecast
A meditation for the beginning of the day with R. ALUN EVANS Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With JULIAN TUTT
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to make your views known on an issue in the news.
Producer NICK UTECHIN
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after peopie?
Is public money being spent to best effect?
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer PETER CROASDALE
Bini and Bettine by NIGEL KNEALE
Read by George Parsons Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
New Every Morning, page 42; Praise my soul, the King of heaven (BBC HB 15); Psalm 22;
Luke 10, vv 1-9; Fill thou my life (BBC HB 271) Stereo
A series of six programmes 2: In Praise of Sociobiology Presented by John Gribbin
Sociobiology is partly about the predisposition of individual members of different species to do certain things well, and others badly, or not at all. Can it explain why people are predisposed to be nice to each other? BBC Bristol (Ft)
Presented by John Howard
What do Verdi's funeral, a brand of bubblegum and Mrs Thatcher 's film career have in common? They're all subjects of discussion, dissection and cogitation in this week's quotation game!
With guests George Melly Julian Mitchell , Sue Limb and Katharine Whitehorn Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo (R)
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Clever Apple Pie by FRANCIS MOSLEY Stereo (R)
2.05 History Lost and Found The War Years Stereo (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT Parents and teachers - record this! GCSE pupils grill chief examiners. There's a careers service and reports far and wide on good practice in schools, plus help and advice from the Secondary Examinations Council. 3: Music Stereo (e)
The programme that offers men the chance to find out what women are talking about - and to join in! Serial:
A Marriage Survival Guide (5) Presenter Jenny Cuffe
by ADISAKDI TANTIMEDH with Tim takes his answering machine seriously. For him it is communication whittled down to its bare essentials.
But Trudie wants more - like real dialogue.
ELIZABETH SEARS (saxophone) Directed by PETER KAVANAGH Stereo
with Richard Baker Modified capture....
For decades, professional performances of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas were the sole preserve of the D'Oyly Carte Company Two of the leading singers from the golden era of the company reminisce about their experiences: tenor Thomas Round and bass Donald Adams , a survivor of over 3,500 Mikados.
Producer NIGEL WILKINSON. Stereo
0 HEAR THIS! page 29
Reporters Neil Walker and David Clayton link up with BBC Local Radio stations around the country for 1,500 seconds.
Time Honoured
Where does time come from? Why is the Greenwich time signal sometimes early? And why do frozen peas always watch the clock?
Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
5,00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
Another chance to hear one of the most popular and successful shows produced by BBC Radio's Light Entertainment department.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese , David Hatch Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie
Music from the LEON COHEN GROUP Written by TIM BROOKE TAYLOR DEREK FARMER. BILL ODDIE and ELIZABETH EVANS
Producer HUMPHREY BARCLAY (First broadcast in 1967)
'The last of 12 programmes
Hell, Purgatory and Paradise
In his final journey through the faith of the Middle Ages,
Brian Redhead examines the world of Dante - politician, poet and religious thinker.
On the way Brian meets the first navel gazers and the last Templars. But above all he explores the vision of hell, purgatory and paradise, hailed by some as the perfection of 14 centuries of Christian thinking. Readers PHILIP SULLY and ALICE ARNOLD
Signature tune composed by BARRY ROSE
Series producer FRANCES GUMLEY
A biographical impression of Eugene O'Neill by CHRISTOPHER BIGSBY with 'A hundred years ago in a small hotel in New York City a son was born to James O'Neill , rising star of a commercial theatre that his son would grow up to detest and reject.
Virtually single-handed,
Eugene O'Neill changed the direction of American theatre with plays such as The Emperor Jones, Mourning Becomes
Electra, Desire under the Elms, and The Iceman Cometh.
The autobiographical play
Long Day's Journey into Night, probably his finest achievement, was neither published nor performed in his lifetime. He ended his days in another hotel room, no longer able to write because of illness, locked up with his memories....'
Music arranged and played by TREVOR ALLAN
Producer ED THOMASON. Stereo
For people with a visual handicap
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
The 'In Touch' handbook, a comprehensive guide to services and equipmen for blind people, £5.95 from: [address removed]
Natalie Wheen presents tonight's arts magazine which includes a new biography of the actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft , and the first performance of a movement from what would have been Beethoven's 10th. Producer us EDWARDS
Tiny Lies
2: Lois and the Ancients. Stereo
with Alexander MacLeod
A Passage of Time
Millie Murray reads her story of the experiences of women who followed their menfolk to
London from the Caribbean. (R)
History: Using the Evidence History Mysteries. Stereo (e) at 12.30 The Gunpowder Plot by TERRY JAMES and at 12.50 The Mary Celeste by ARTHUR SCHOLEY
