With JAMES BUTTERWORTH. 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
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
The last of four programmes searching for the roots of creativity.
Advice to a Young Creator Can anyone team to be creative? There is now some evidence that education and training can release intrinsic talent within us all. Peter Evans assembles guidance on the best strategies to adopt if you sincerely want to create. Contributors include
Jonathan Miller , Michael Frayn
Professor Richard Gregory , Sir Terence Conran , David Ogilvy , Miles Kington , Professor Robert Weisberg , Jonathan Kenworthy.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN (R)
How do you make the acquaintance of a tarantula?
Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm learn just how friendly these enormous spiders can be Producer MILES BARTON. BBC Bristol
Stereo
When Chris and Shirley Brasher married in 1959 the headlines in the papers read
'Top tennis star weds Olympic champion', but how did this affect their careers?
Gerald Williams steps into the world of this sporting couple. Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
A series of talks from new broadcasters with stories to tell and opinions to air.
This week Jan Etherington introduces a very special four-legged therapist.
Help, advice and information about your consumer concerns presented by John Howard.
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Corner The Bold Bad Bus by WILMA HORSBRUGH Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Garden Tools by MIKE HOWARTH. TIMMY MALLETT and ROBIN ROBBINS make model garden tools. Stereo (e)
2.20 GCSE: Real Maths 4: The Gambler Presented by FRANK PARTRIDGE Stereo (e)
2.40 Quest
4: The Bible - the New Testament Stereo (e)
It may be the end of your working life - but it could be the beginning of another busy, fulfilling chapter.
Alanah Martin discovers how best to prepare for retirement.
Serial: The Honey Ant (1) by DUNCAN KYLE abridged in 13 episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN.
Read by Nigel Graham
Following old Mrs Green 's death on her remote estate in Western Australia, her will arrives at the office of her Perth solicitors in an unorthodox fashion. And Captain Strutt, who inherits the estate, is pretty unexpected too! Then nasty things start happening ...
(Music: Brennan's 'Battles') Presenter Jenni Murray
by Michael Wall.
With David Goudge as Colin, Rosalind March as Steph, Alex Jennings as Tom and Rowena Roberts as Maddy.
The laughter heard from the house is the first thing to disturb the two men in the garden. What is it that makes women tick, Tony asks. "I think people do tick, I know I do. I'm like a bomb. One of these days I'm going to explode. Boom." Stereo
This week Nigel Forde 's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of Love Letters, Antonia Fraser 's new anthology.
Producer SIMON ELMES
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Stereo
(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
including Financial Report
A series often programmes that take life as the microphone finds it.
3: Kinlochwhere?
'Kinlochbervie is an eighth of an inch from Cape Wrath - the most northerly point of mainland Britain - at least, it is on the Missions to Seamen tea towel which first showed me where I was going to live....' 'It's a tiny, close-knit community but it's the fastest growing white-fish port in Europe
'We're 100 miles from the nearest hospital and supermarket....'
'Paradise found....'
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE. Stereo
5: John Postlethwaite and Sons The Postlethwaites have always been farmers. The present patriarch farms 500 acres near
Rugby with his three sons. They all have their own particular interest, and they are all expected to show a profit.
Marjorie Lofthouse spends a day on their farm.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Pebble Mill
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
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Christopher Hampton has adapted Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for the National Theatre.
There's a first-night review in tonight's programme and, at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Spanish painter Joan Miro has a major exhibition of his work. Presenter Nigel Andrews
Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE. Stereo
Odd Man Out (4)
Presented by David Sells
Introducing Science Extra Computers at Work Written and produced by JULIAN COLEMAN (R) (e) at 12.30 Message and Memory and at 12.50 Calculation and Control
