Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

A meditation for the beginning of the day
With FR MICHAEL COLLINS Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
8.50* Letters
Write to: Today Letters BBC, London WlA 1AA

with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo

visits Cornwall, where members of the Feock Home and Garden Society put their queries to
Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

A Decent Life by STEVEN MICHELL
Read by Paul Copley Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM, p 25; Lift up your hearts (BBC HB 326); Psalm 20;
Mark 6, w 1-12; 0 happy band of pilgrims (BBC HB 335) Stereo

tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day affect you and your family.
Presented by John Howard
Ifuou are concerned about health, education, housing orfinancial matters, or if you are the victim of unhelpful traders or authorities, writeto: You and Yours,BBC London WlA 1AA

by LAURENCE PAYNE
The last of a four-part dramatisation by ALAN DOWNER with and Fire!
Private investigator
Mark Savage believes he has located the 'enemy' at last.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Stereo

Presented by James Naughtie

1. 55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Train by DAVID MCPHAIL Stereo
2.05 WPFM The weekly live radio magazine for the under-20s. Music, style, rights and wrongs; politics, religion, education and training. Presented by JO WHILEY Stereo(e) Use the helpline to access database information on all available courses and training options throughout the UK. Phone [number removed] (free). Lines are open from 2.15-3.15pm

Should Urdu be compulsory in primary schools with a high number of Asian children? How much should children learn about their own religions and cultures at school?
In the programme that explores the details of everyday life, Marya Burgess investigates the changing face of cultural education.
Serial: Lovers of Africa (2) Presenter Jenni Murray

by CRAIG WARNER with
Tell Eddie a secret and he won't betray you. Eddie can draw music but he does not speak. It's easier that way, no one ridicules him when the words tumble out in the wrong order. But when a young girl confides in him, her advances shatter his peaceful, mute world.
With ALICE ARNOLD , PETER CRAZE and CARA KELLY
MARY NASH (piano)
Directed by CAROLINE RAPHAEL. Stereo

The third of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks to Spike Milligan about his life and poetry.
Reader TONY ROBINSON
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol

Honduras, as host to the Nicaraguan Contras, has been a valued US ally in Central
America during the Reagan era. But with the Contras in disarray and Honduras beset with chronic economic problems, Stuart Simon examines the wisdom of Washington's Central American policy.
Producer STEPHEN SACKUR Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester

Writing in the South Pacific Authors and poets from such places as the Solomon Islands, Tonga and Western Samoa come to London this week for a Pacific Writers' Conference.
Prabhu Guptara talks to them. Producer CARROLL MOORE

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Hugh Sykes
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters Letters to: PM, BBC London WlA 1AA
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

Clement Freud , Peter Jones Christopher Timothy and Lance Percival try to stop each other talking for just a minute on subjects flung at them by Nicholas Parsons.
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR Stereo (R)

(Details tomorrow at 9.05am L W)

by SUE LIMB
An eight-part radio sequel to her novel starring
2: Hot Water
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo

A reflected history in seven reels
Reel 5: Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat!
'I wanted to be American.
I wanted to be powerful, which means safe, because I was helpless and naked and alone; and I wanted to be rich, because money meant everything to an immigrant kid.'
ELIA KAZAN, Film Director
With the opinions of Philip Jenkinson and Kevin Brownlow and the voices of JAMES CAGNEY. ELIA KAZAN
JAMES DEAN, MARLON BRANDO GENE KELLY and STUBBY KAYE Script and narration by Christopher Frayling
Compiled and researched by PAUL WELLS
Directed by JOHN POWELL. Stereo (R)

(Details tomorrow at 9.30am LW)

The comprehensive
David Hockney exhibition, first seen in Los Angeles, crosses the Atlantic to open at the Tate
Gallery in London this week; and two musicals from another age - Lemer and Loewe's
Brigadoon and Cole Porter 's
Can Can - look for a new public in the 80s.
Presented by Michael Berkeley Producer LIS EDWARDS

No Surrender 3: Chorus Boy

with Alexander MacLeod

Home or Away (e) at 12.30 Holiday Travel UK Written and narrated by HOPE SEALY and at 12.50 Holiday Travel Germany Written and narrated by DIANA GOODMAN