Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather.
With JOHN MORGAN Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Chris Lowe
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* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Britain's armies of marketing men and women have been advancing at the double during the 1980s. Their combined operations now expend over ten billion pounds a year and they're on active service in every sector. In a series of four programmes, Jenny Cuffe invites them to disclose their tactics and asks what they supply at whose demand. 1: Cracking the Code
In an industry where logos and jargon prevail, AIDA is no longer an opera, ACORNs don't grow on trees and Dogs never have four legs. Could marketing be merely warpaint parading as surefire Strategy?
Producer JOY HATWOOD
What were forests like in the Middle Ages?
Lionel Kelleway explores the 1100-acre patch which is all that's left of Britain's medieval woodlands. BBC Bristol
reflecting the concerns of the day. Stereo
The last of six programmes.
Where were you the night
Henry Cooper floored
Cassius Clay ? For the former plasterer it was the most important left hook of his life.
Gerald Williams talks to twins Henry and George Cooper about the turbulent world of the professional boxer.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
First Person
A series of 13 talks from first-time broadcasters.
New names, new voices-each with a story to tell and opinions to air.
David Rogers reflects on the comings and goings of past Cabinets.
Help, advice and information about your consumer concerns presented by Debbie Thrower.
Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Harry 's Very Bad Day Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Greenhouse by MIKE HOWARTH Ideas on how to make a model greenhouse for primary science projects. Stereo (e)
2.20 GCSE: Real Maths Supports GCSE coursework and stimulates low-achieving pupils. 5: Business Games Presented by FRANK PARTRIDGE Stereo (e)
2.40 Quest
5: Christian Pilgrimage Compiled by DAVID SELF Stereo (e)
Jenni Murray talks to Sir Donald Acheson ,
Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health.
Serial: The Honey Ant (6)
by EWART HUTTON.
Miguel De'Asturias is returning home from political exile to the sound of happy crowds and music. Among the welcoming sound, however, is sudden betrayal.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Radio Drama Company.
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo
Off the Rails chronicles Lisa St Aubin de Teran's obsession with travel - more particularly by train, from the humble beginnings of East Dulwich station to Argentina and Patagonia. Her new collection of short stories, The Marble Mountain, also explores a range of worlds, exotic and mundane. Nigel Forde talks to
Lisa St Aubin de Teran, and also to Erich Segal , best-selling author of Love Story, -on the publication of his latest saga, Doctors.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT
The Matinee
Mark Steyn talks to Michael Wall, author of Amongst Barbarians, winner of the £10,000 Mobil Playwriting Prize, which opens tonight in Manchester.
Mary Flanagan has been reading Tom Wolfe 's Bonfire of the Vanities, and is currently half way through her latest novel.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
Stereo
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PMLetters; 5.31 City News continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55
including Financial Report
A series of ten programmes. 4: Animal Hospital
Presented by Debbie Thrower. Topsy has a tumour, Lucy's incontinent and Gloria thinks she's a bull - but these are routine matters for staff and students at Bristol's School of Veterinary Science.
All patients, whether they're valuable working animals or much-loved pets, get the same high-tech treatment. But soft words - and hands - still count; and the students discover there's more than they thought to the back end of a horse.... Producer SHARON BANOFF. Stereo
The last of six programmes. Church and Company
The Church family have been making shoes since 1873.
Now their name is synonymous with those quintessentially traditional British shoes that have become famous the world over. Marjorie Lofthouse goes to Northampton, heart of the shoe industry, to meet them. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Pebble Mill
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with country-wide news and views.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
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The Evening Show
Timed to coincide with Crufts is a serious analysis of the dog in art. Mark Steyn considers the Rococo and post-Modernist canine, and also asks pianist Stephen Hough why he included Richard Rodgers 's My Favourite Things on his latest recording.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN Stereo
Odd Man Out (9)
Presented by David Sells
Taking Sides (1) MICHAEL ROSEN and school pupils with several starting points for group discussion and role play in lower secondary education. Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS (e)
