joins the best of Britain's farm livestock at the Royal
Smithfield Show, live from
London's Earls Court. Plus a five-day weather forecast.
Producers TIM FINNEY , DYLAN WINTER
with DENIS NOWLAN. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Jennie Bond
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With MARTIN CRASS
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
'Today' again asks listeners to vote for their Man and Woman of the Year. Send votes to: Man or Woman of the Year, Today; BBC, London W1A 4WW
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
with Harriet Cass
finds evidence of festival phobia in the BBC Sound Archives. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
with Melvyn Bragg
Researcher JANE NUNNELEY
Producer MARINA SALANDY BROWN Stereo
Introductions a la Mode by OLIVER BAYLDON.
Read by Daniel Webb Producer SHEILA FOX
from the Headquarters of the Royal National Institute for the Blind, London.
Reading: Isaiah 9, w 2-7, Hark the glad sound; Tell out, my soul;
A great and mighty wonder. Organist MICHAEL CAMPBELL Stereo
Presented by John Fuller. Readers JUNE BARRIE and MARTIN JARVIS.
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by John Waite. Editor KEN VASS
Write to: You and Yours, BBC London W1A 1AA
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen - linked by the miracle which is wireless - preside over a further series of cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the frontal lobes....
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge Paddy Fitzpatrick and Maurice Hayes.
Researcher AUDREY ROBINS Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
Presented by James Naughtie Editor MARTIN COX
1.55 Listening Corner BILL TORRANCE reads Tales of a Shaggy Dog by RICHARD DALKINS. Today's story: The F.R.E.D. Producer MARY HAYDON. Stereo
2.00 Recorder Club Stage II Written and presented by DOUGLAS COOMBES (6) Producer PETER HUTCHINGS. Stereo (e)
2.20 Music Project: Instruments of the World Presented by ANDY KERSHAW and LUCY DURAN. Written and produced by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (e) at 2.20
1: Music Around the Globe From kotos to koras, from mbiras to bungis, music from every continent. and at 2.40
2: Sounds and Materials Making blowing instruments.
Women from countries as far apart as Nicaragua, Sweden,
Argentina, South Africa and the UK have been gathering in Jerusalem for the first international Jewish Feminist conference.
Pat Rowe reports.
Serial: Sheep's Clothing (3) Presenter Jenni Murray Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
A play by NAN WOODHOUSE
Stereo.
Christopher Cook talks to director Nuria Espert as she prepares for the first night of Verdi's Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House, having just supervised the transfer of her Madama Butterfly to the same stage.
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters Letters to: PM. BBC London W1A 1AA
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5.50-5. 55
with HARRIET CASS.
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Stereo
Derek Cooper 's weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
by William Trevor
with Paola Dionisotti as Henrietta
Sitting one summer evening in their charming garden, Henrietta and Roy have a conversation that changes her world: 'For the first time in our married life, I considered my husband shifty.'
(Stereo)
A series of four programmes presented by Margaret Howard. 2: Lady Emma Curzon, sister of the seventh Earl Howe , was, until recently, nursing sister in charge of a pain control unit at a London hospital. Nursing was a new departure for an old family.
Producer GRAHAM TAYAR (R)
D. H. Lawrence 's novel The Rainbow comes to BBC1 in a new adaptation by Anne Devlin ; sculptor Les Bicknall completes his project in the unlikely setting of a household waste disposal site in Lincoln; and the songs of Fred Astaire get a facelift.
Presented by Mark Steyn. Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by ALAN SILLITOE abridged in 12 episodes by PETER MACKIE.
Read by Terry Molloy (6) Producer PHILIP MARTIN BBC Pebble Mill
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAJR THOMSON
Religious Studies - for GCSE and General RE. Presented by KATI WHITAKER. Producer GEOFF MARSHALL TAYLOR Stereo (e) at 12.30 1: Belief and Nature at 12.50 2: Belief and Prejudice
