Prices, practical farming, politics and the countryside. Producers TIM FINNEY and DYLAN WINTER
A meditation for the beginning of the new day
With THE RT REV PATRICK KELLY , Bishop of Salford. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
2: The White Stick producer MAURICE LEITCH (R)
Rabbit's Breakfast by LIZ WHEELER
Read by Terry Dauncey
Producer JANE DAUNCEY. BBC Wales
New Every Morning, page 25; Songs of thankfulness and praise (NEH 56); Psalm 36; Isaiah 42, w 1-7; The race that long in darkness pined (BBC HB 496) Stereo
11.00 Time and Tune 1: Over the Moon Music by STEPHEN CHADWICK with singers from Havering and Dunstable. Written and produced by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (e)
11.20 Time to Move 1: Listen and Move by KATE HARRISON. Presented by NICK MERCER Producer BRIAN SCOTT-HUGHES Stereo (e)
11.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) 1: Storm by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND dramatised by zoe BAILEY. Producer ALAN LAMBERT. Stereo (e)
11.00am LW Citizens (For cast see Thursday 11. 00am LW)
11.25am L W From Our Own Correspondent
11.50am-12.00 LW Japan Five, Wales Nil A series of five programmes. Writer Alun Richards spent a year in Japan - and found some connections hard to make! 2: Air Tight in Tokyo Producer JANE DAUNCEY. BBC Wales
Presented by John Howard
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden. In the Chair Steve Race Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON.
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Party Huggett and the Knobbly Parcel. Stereo (R)
2.05 History Lost and Found Victorian Children Producer ELIZABETH CLEAVER Stereo (R)(e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT. 6: Mathematics Producer JOHN TURTON Editor PETER WARD. Stereo (e)
The daily forum for women offers a heady cocktail of politics, places and people, finance, fashion and food. Serial: The Skin Chairs (7) Presenter Jenni Murray
by MARGARET STEWARD. With and If you shut your eyes really hard, you can imagine so many things, see such strange sights. When young Paul closes his eyes he conjures up the 'umbrella man'.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo
Music is often cited as an international language, although comparatively little is known about musical cultures outside the West. Dr Lucy Duran, of the National Sound Archive, and Viram Jasani introduce music from India, Africa and South America.
(Stereo)
Neil Walker and David Clayton investigate 'street-based direction indicators'. Sign Here.... Please Why researchers in Birmingham say road signs are dangerous.... and confessions of a signpost addict. Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
Stereo
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News
including Financial Report
The last of four tales.
Where Are They Now? by TOM STOPPARD , with Carleton Hobbs.
Any old boys' reunion dinner inevitably invites echoes from the past. Old boys:
Masters:
Young boys:
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN. Stereo (R)
(Details tomorrow at 4. 05pm)
Vladimir Ashkenazy talks with June Knox-Mawer about his upbringing in Russia, where he was the joint winner of the 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition, and his subsequent life in the West. He also introduces his records of Chopin's Etude in G flat, Op 10 No 5, Rachmaninov's Prelude No 23 in G sharp minor and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 in B flat, in which he is the soloist and directs the Cleveland Orchestra.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER. Stereo
The second of six programmes in which David Bean travels in the footsteps of George Borrow. 2: Salamanca
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)
News and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Ian Macrae. Producer THENA HESHEL
Questions and comments can be phoned in on [number removed]between 8.30pm and 10. 15pm.
The grim life of the black townships of South Africa are explored in the film
Mapantsula, made with an all-black cast; and Gauguin is reassessed in an exhibition in Paris.
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer JULIAN MAY . Stereo
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (17)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
Help Yourself: A-Level Chemistry Presented by liz WICKHAM Producer DICKON REED. Stereo (e) at 12.30
1: Sulphuric Acid by HELENE HURLES and at 12.50 2: Citric Acid by MICHAEL WHITE
