with KATHLEEN RICHARDSON. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 18.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8,00 Today's News
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with JOHN RAWLING
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 4 (R)
A special edition in which John Waite looks back over a year of investigations on Radio 4 and brings you up to date with what's happened since.
An Italia prize-winning snack at the 'Famous Delicatessen,
Philadelphia. pickled and shredded by Roberta Berke with the voices of Sam, Lilian and David Auspitz , their customers and helpers
A gem of a montage documentary
THE LISTENER
Recorded by ROGER DOWUNG Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo (R)
Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm report on the wildlife scene and discover, some very unlikely predators \sheep and deer which eat seabird chicks! Producer JOHN HARRISON
BBC Bristol
Stereo
Stereo (Omnibus edition on Saturday)
Jackie Stewart is helping his son Paul launch his career in the dangerous and exciting world of motor sport, but what does the future hold? In the first of six chats with sporting families, Gerald Williams talks to father and son about sporting influences and whether the urge to succeed is in the blood. Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
New broadcasters with stories to tell and opinions to air.
This week Linda Stapley on how to make the best of being a failed mum.
Presented by John Howard
Tom Vernon pedals from the Alps to the Mezzogiorno in the summer of 1980. 2: The Olive, the Crossbow and the Caterpillar. Stereo (R) (Part 3 next Wednesday)
Presented by James Naughtie
John Dowie reads Growing and Knowing. Stereo (R)
Is there sex after 70? Very much so, according to the couples who talk to Karen Deco about their emotional and physical lives. Serial: The Skin Chairs (4) Presenter Jenni Murrary
by SHUSAKU ENDO dramatised by PENNY LEICESTER from the translation by VAN C. GESSEL. With
Suguro, a Catholic, lies in a hospital bed awaiting his third serious operation on the eve of his 40th birthday. Even if he survives, he is not sure that his marriage will.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo (R)
This week Nigel Forde offers a slice of England, with an anthology of writing edited by Richard Ingrams.
Professor John Honey asks 'Does accent matter?'
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
(Revised repeat of yesterday s programme at 9. 45pm)
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News continuedon FM 5.50-5.55
including Financial Report
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
In October 1938, to celebrate his jubilee as a conductor, Sir
Henry Wood conducted the first performance of a work specially written for the occasion by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The piece was Serenade to Music. Fifty years on, John Steane looks back to that famous premiere and examines how
Vaughan Williams tailored the 16 vocal parts to the voices who sang them. With contributions from the three surviving original soloists,
Dame Eva Turner , Mary Jarred and Roy Henderson , the composer's widow
Ursula Vaughan Williams and the voices of Sir Henry Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Producer ANDREW LYLE. Stereo
(Details tomorrow at 11.00am)
A series of six programmes.
1: H.P. Bulmer - Cider-Makers of Hereford
The Rev Charles Bulmer made cider from the apples in his rectory orchard. One hundred years ago, his son Percy turned the hobby into a business.
Now his grandson Esmond is chairman of a multi-million pound company.
Marjorie Lofthouse tells the story of the Hereford cider giants. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Pebble Mill
Orcadia
Organising an efficient network of services for people with handicaps is difficult enough, but how is it managed on an archipelago of 60 islands? Lyn ten Kate shares her conclusions in a special programme from the Orkney Isles.
Producer MARLENE PEASE
Jeremy Irons plays a pair of twin gynaecologists in Canadian film director David Cronenberg 's Dead Ringers.
Shock has been the hallmark of Cronenberg's recent films such as Scanners and The Fly. This one is less shocking, he thinks ... but Natalie Wheen has her point of view.
Producer us EDWARDS
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (14)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
Presented by Dr Tony Lake 3: A Good-Enough Therapist (R) revised