live from the Royal Smithfield Show
with DENIS NOWLAN. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
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
The Programme with Listener Power
There's intrigue and frustration but never a dull moment ... when three punters join forces ... with reporters Susan Marling and Eric Robson.
Editor MARY pkice. BBC Bristol 9 If you would like to take part in Punters write (with address and telephone number) to:
Punters, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
In a series of five programmes, Frank Whitford meets the personalities behind some well-known signatures and discovers how seriously they take the art of humour. 3: Nicholas Garland
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS. Stereo
Organic and factory farming have joined forces on an industrial estate in Aberystwyth - to produce a fine crop of Welsh worms. Join Jessica Holm and Fergus Keeling to find out about this novel form of husbandry, as well as the nomadic lifestyle of wildlife photographer Jonathan Scott. Producer KATE WHITEHEAD BBC Bristol
reflecting the concerns of the day. stereo
Professor Rosemary Cramp , Professor of Archaeology at Durham University, talks to Sue MacGregor about her life and work, uncovering the past and preserving it for the future. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
A series of 13 talks from first-time broadcasters - new names, new voices - each with a story to tell.
11: John Pilkington - bewitched and bewildered by the lure of travel.
Presented by John Waite
Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Corner The Magic Chinese Dog Whistle. Stereo
2.00 Recorder Club Stage Il (9) Stereo (e)
2.20 Music Project: Instruments of the World 7: Drums, Membrane Instruments and Hi- Tech Sounds around the Globe From bodhrans to Burundi drums, from tabla to tsuzumi, skin sounds from every continent. Stereo (e) and at 2.40
8: Good Vibrations More drums and simple string instruments to make.
Heavy-metal music and slammed doors are the hallmark of teenage households. But what happens when all the emotional energy is channelled into poetry?
Joanna Buchan reports on the adolescent literary landscape. Serial: Sheep's Clothing (6) Presenter Jenni Mills
by DAVE SHEASBY
A climber is killed and friends gather for his wake. His widow brings an outsider, a journalist who has secretly paid another stranger to attend - the Swiss climber who was with him when he died. Will the celebration turn into a post mortem?
BBC Manchester. Stereo
Jerry Epstein has just written an account of his friendship with one of the best-loved comic figures of this century - Charlie Chaplin. He tells Nigel Forde more about the man beneath the bowler.
Also featured is Paul Sayer , whose book The Comforts of Madness won the Whitbread Prize for a first novel.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
(Revised repeat of yesterday 's programme at 9. 45pm)
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters: 5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
with PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
written by GRAHAM HARVEY Cast for the week:
Introduced by Brian Gear
Producer LAURIE MASON. BBC Bristol
Laurie Taylor with news about radio and its programmes. Researcher ANDREA GRAHAME Producer KEITH JONES
Jeremy Harding reports on a recent visit to this war-torn
African country and asks why Brazilian television soap opera, of all things, should be so popular there.
(Details tomorrow at 11.00am L W)
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC. London WIA IAA
The Leonardo da Vinci cartoon shattered by a shotgun blast is now near the end of its restoration by Martin Wyld and Eric Harding. They talk to Christopher Cook , who also opens his ears to two new
Ring cycle debuts on record by Bernard Haitink and James Levine.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (9)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
