Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather.
with THE REV DR JOHN NEWTON Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor 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
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Letters
WRITE TO: Today Letters,
BBC. London W1A1AA
with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo
This week the team visits Warwickshire, where the villagers of Luddington put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki, Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward. Chairman Clay Jones
BBC Manchester
CEEFAX: plant list and topical tips from Gardeners' Question Time are displayed on page 188
Into the Third World:
Morning Story Through the Looking Glass. City Column by OLIVER BAYLDON.
He wasn't over-sensitive No way. Yuppies can't afford to be.
No. He was definitely in control. Conscience strapped down.
Likewise heart. No place there for starving children. Right.' Read by Alfred Molina Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM. p 114; Bright the vision
(BBC hb 269); Lead me, Lord
(Wesley); Galatians 1, w 11-24;
0 Jesus, I have promised (BBC HB 360) Stereo
Alex Ferguson continues his battle with the governors of the (almost) imaginary Bilton School.
4: Summer Term
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Presented by John Howard
INFORMATION: write for
Factsheet No
You and Yours, BBC London W1A 1AA
The Political Quiz
Two teams, captained by Austin Mitchell, mp, and Julian Critchley , mp, compete in a light-hearted test of political knowledge.
Patrick Hannan is in the Chair. Written and compiled by BOB SINFIELD
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Ribbit in Winter by DAVID TAFT. Stereo (R)
2.05 WPFM Presented by jo WHILEY. Stereo (e)
0 PHONE: [number removed] (free), linesopenfrom 2.15-3.15pm
Are you a giggler or a chuckler? Do you heave, titter, gasp or guffaw? Jean Snedegar investigates why we laugh, when we laugh, what makes us do it, and whether it does us any good.
Serial: Breathing Lessons (8) Presenter Jenni Murray
byjIMMIECHINN.
Leslie Latchmoor lives alone, except for the memories of his sad, hilarious life. He asks you to share for a while his life, and his loves.
Leslie Latchmoor
BERNARD CRIBBINS
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo (R)
George MacBeth talks with Carol Ann Duffy. Reader UN SAGOVSKY.
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
Will an alliance of opposition parties force a new constitutional deal for Scotland?
Reporter Felicity Goodey Producer STEPHEN SACKUR Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
The Singing of the Choir
Cathedral and college choirs, the heart of the ecclesiastical choral tradition, are treasured contributors to Britain's cultural heritage.
Paul Vaughan finds out how they see their role in a changing society and a changing musical climate. Producer JOHN BOUNDY. Stereo
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
including Financial Report
A series of 13 plays.
2: The Dead Drummer by DAVID BUCK
(Details tomorrow at 9.05am LW)
Coketown
In the third of four programmes exploring the relationship between English landscape and literature,
Christopher Nicholson looks at the new industrial cities ofthel9th century - where the rivers were black as jet, and the sound of birdsong was replaced by the whirring cacophony of the cotton mills. Producer NICOLA BARRANGER (First broadcast on BBC World Service)
Arabic
The tongue of Babylon and Nasser: of the Koran and Marrakesh. Ray Gosling reports from Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, where the British Army has a unit to train 'our boys' for the souks of Muscat in Oman.
Additional material provided by Damascus-born K. Shamaa , editor-in-chief of Ad Dhastoor magazine.
Producer JENNY LO
Margaret Atwood 's new novel Cat Eye is published this week; Shakespeare's Lear becomes an opera; and Cardiff becomes host to a clowns' workshop.
Presenter Anne Theroux
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON. Stereo
What Hetty Did
8: 1 Find My Mother
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
Technology and Design Stereo (R) (e) at 12.30
1: Sources of Motive Power at 12.40
2: Motors (CSA) at 12.50
3: Choosing Materials and Components and at 1.00
4: Fastenings and Fixings
