Farming, food and countryside news. market trends, weather
With JEN SUTTON Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Letters
Write to: Today Letters BBC, London W1A 1AA
with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo
This week the team visits
East Sussex, where members ot the Ewhurst, Staplecross and Bodiam Garden Society put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Plant list and topical tips are displayed on Ceefaxpage 188
Pepita by INGE ISRAEL Read by Susie Brann Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM p 25; Lo! He comes with clouds descending(BBC HB 35); Isaiah 40. vv 6-11; Little Lamb, who made thee? (Walford
Davies); The Lord will come (BBC HB 479) Stereo
Three programmes in which
Bernard Keeffe muses on the mysteries of learning to sing.
2: Mind Where You're Born
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
presented by John Waite.
On the eve of World AIDS Day, You and Yours examines the British record in preventing the disease and caring for its victims. Is the move towards treating people with AIDS in the community rather than in hospital working? And are the thousands of people with HIV infection getting the right kind of emotional and practical support?
0 FEATURE: page 96
A serial in eight episodes by Peter Ling and Juliet Ace
Starring Jane Asher, Gayle Hunnicutt, Polly James, Margaret Rawlings, Dinah Sheridan, Martin Jarvis, Richard Pasco and Dominic Rickhards
Edith and Grace have moved into the lodge cottage. Richard planned a stag night in town, which ended in a broken engagement. Instead, he brought Polly Harvey home to Crown House and, on Christmas Eve, he married her. Desolate, Jenny turned to Nicholas for consolation.
(Stereo)
(Broadcast on Sunday at 7.30pm)
Hear This! page 28
Presented by James Naughtie
by the Conservative Party
1.55 Listening Corner Tiddalik the Frog. Stereo
2.05 WPFM The under-20s radio magazine Presented by jo WHILEY Producer NICK WARE. Stereo (e) Use the helpline to access database information on courses throughout the UK. Phone [number removed] (free) Lines open/rom 2.15-3.15pm
The programme that invites men to eavesdrop on what women really talk about - and to join in. Short Story: Sense of Humour by v.s PRITCHETT abridged by WENDY RIX Read by John Pullen
'It started one Saturday ... I'd decided to stay at the hotel the weekend. "All alone!" asked the girl at the desk ... That was how it started.'
(Music: Bax's Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet)
Presenter Jenni Murray
by DAVID MARSHALL with and A strange Norfolk chicken farmer engages two young people to help him out. But a prize cockerel gets killed and the young man disappears ... Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo
The second of five programmes in which George MacBeth continues his conversation with the poet Liz Lochhead about her life and work. Reader JANETTE foggo Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo
Reporter Helen Boaden Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
The Wilburys Travel
So George Harrison , Jeff Lynne , Roy Orbison and Tom Petty were at Bob Dylan 's house one day, talking about music, trying out songs - and a year later, a new group, The Traveling
Wilburys, release their first album. Paul Allen finds out more about the Wilburys from Nelson Wilbury (George) and his brother Otis (Jeff). Producer JULIAN MAY
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00, 5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
with HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
Iain Johnstone hosts the celebrity panel show that brings you magic movie moments. This week's panel are Dick Vosburgh, Liz Fraser, Angela Douglas and Bernard Cribbins
(Stereo) (R)
A series of four programmes about Antarctica with Bernard Jackson 2: Journeying South
The British have long been leaders in Antarctic research, and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) maintains a series of permanent scientific bases. But how do BAS people reach the Antarctic? What do they find and undertake when they get there - and is the effort worth the cost?
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN. Stereo
by SUE LIMB. An eight-part radio sequel to her novel starring Imelda Staunton as Izzy 7: The More the Merrier
Producer JONATHAN JAMES MOORE
Stereo
Syphilis and AIDS
'Loathsome disease stalks the land, grasping in its withering clutches victims from among the pure and yet unborn....'
A hundred years ago, Victorian Britain was gripped by the fear of a mysterious and unspeakable - because sexually transmitted - disease.... syphilis.
Professor Lewis Wolpert explores this largely forgotten epidemic to discover how doctors, moral campaigners and the government of the time responded to a problem which has many modern parallels. Producer ELIZABETH BURKE
(Details tomorrow at 9.05am LW)
A radio portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Howard Brenton wrote
The Churchill Play in 1974, and he's now updated it to reflect the 1980s. Kaleidoscope is at the first night, which also marks the return to the stage of Colin Welland.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Revised repeat tomorrow at 4.35pm)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (3)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
Drama Resources (14 plus) by IAN SPIBY and NEIL KITSON (e) at 12.30 Drama Conventions: ADIY Guide and at 12.50 How to Pass GCSE Drama
