live from the Royal Smithfield Show, Earls Court, London
with DENIS NOWLAN. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys 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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Letters
withLibbyPurves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING , Stereo
One hundred thousand visitors attended the BBC Radio Show. Several hundred joined chairman Clay Jones and his team of Sue Phillips , Fred Down ham and Dr Stefan Buczacki , to hear them answer queries and problems from the audience in this special edition of Gardeners' Question Time recorded at Earls Court, London. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Tourist Trap by MARYAN BAKER. Read by Trevor Nichols Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM p 50; Judge eternal
(BBC HB 393); Romans 8, w 18-25; Dearest Lord Jesus (Bach/
Kennedy Scott); Thy kingdom come (BBC HB 28) Stereo
The last programme in which Bernard Keeffe muses on the mysteries of learning to sing. 3: Cadenza with Feeling
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
One million people in Britain are either alcoholics or have serious problems with drinking, and this situation seems to be getting worse, particularly among the young. Today, You and Yours looks at what can be done to treat alcohol problems and asks how everyone can learn to drink more wisely. Presented by John Waite
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.
6: Although the news of the King's illness has not been made public, Alice learns that his condition is very serious.
Minster Family:
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD , Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Corner The Grow-a-Lot Dog Biscuit Stereo
2.00 Recorder Club. Stage 11 (8) Stereo (e)
2.20 Music Project: Instruments of the World
5: Idiophone Instruments around the Globe and at 2.40
6: Rattles, Grapples, Jingles and Gamelans. Stereo (e)
The hour which blends the timeless and the topical, the personal, the practical and the political.
Serial: Sheep's Clothing (5) Presenter Jenni Mills
by CHRIS THOMPSON.
Graham is a happy man, settled in a life of quiet order. Then Liz comes to work at the office and nothing's ever the same again.
Directed by TONY CLIFF
The third of five programmes in which George MacBeth continues his conversation with Liz Lochhead.
Reader JANETTE FOGGO Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo
Reporter Max Easterman Producer BRENDAN MCCARTHY Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
Natalie Wheen sets off on the road to talk to women entertainers - both those who have made it and those with high hopes.
Producer LIS EDWARDS
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 BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Iain Johnstone hosts the movie quiz show with Dick Vosburgh, Kenneth Connor, Sylvia Syms and Leslie Halliwell.
(Stereo) (R)
A series of four programmes about Antarctica with Bernard Jackson. 3: Wildlife Wonderland
On the islands of the southern ocean, scientists are busy cataloguing the activities of seals, penguins, albatrosses and the fish. krill and other
Antarctic organisms on which they live. But why is this research undertaken, and what are its wider implications? Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
by SUE LIMB . The last of an eight-part sequel to her novel. Starring
Love 's Labours
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
Stereo
(Details tomorrow at 9. 05am)
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by Paul Vaughan.
Including reviews of new films opening this week: Willow by George Lucas of Star Wars fame. and Neil Jordan 's High Spirits starring Peter O'Toole. Producer FIONA MCLEAN
(Revised repeat tomorrow at 4.35pm)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (8)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
Religious Studies - for GCSE and General RE. Stereo (e) at 12.30
5: Belief and Birth and at 12.50
6: Belief and Work