Adopted farmers report in from all over the country, plus interviews.
Producers TIM FINNEY and DYLAN WINTER
With VIVIENNE FAULL BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45 Business News With MARTIN CRASS
7.00,8.00 Today's News
7.25,8.25 Sport
7.45 Thought for the Day
on the loose in the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer SIMON ELMES
with Muriel Gray and guests. Researcher JANE NUNNELEY
Producer MARINA SALANDY BROWN Stereo
Nothing's Changed byKATEBESWICK.
Read by Polly James Producer SHEILA FOX
led by THE REV NORMAN WINTER from Harrogate Ladies' College with music by the CHAPEL CHOIR. Crown him with many crowns (BBC HB 124); Mark 6, vv 14-29; We rest in thee; Soldiers of Christ, arise (BBC HB 365) Organist CLAIRE HOBBS
Director of Music DAVID ANDREWS BBC Manchester
Presented by Dannie Abse
Readers ROSAUND SHANKS and DAVID GOODLAND
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBC Bristol
Presented by John Waite
* WRITE to: You and Yours. BBC. London W1A 1AA
Presented by Gordon Clough and Louise Allen.
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge Jack Jones and Bill Russell.
Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
Presented by James Naughtie Editor MARTIN COX
1.55 Listening Corner
This week: Big Cats and Little Cats. Presented by HEDLI NIKLAUS and TREVOR HARRISON Today's story: The Tiger Who Came to Tea by JUDITH KERR Script by MARJORIE NEWMAN Producer MARY HAYDON. Stereo
2.05 Playtime. My Street
Presented by SHIREEN SHAH and LOUIS ROBINSON. Stereo (e)
2.20 Science Scope The Things We Wear
With FRED HARRIS and JULIE RICHMOND. Stereo (e)
2.40 Whirligig Unit 2: Nuts and Bolts
HAZEL O'CONNOR in 'Beryl and the Brainstormers' Trapped (2) Stereo (R) (e)
2.50 Let's Make a Story! 6: The Silent Village
by RON JAMES. Storyteller NIGEL GRAHAM. Stereo (R) (e)
Jenni Murray invites you to share the hour no woman can afford to miss!
Serial: The Honey Ant (8) by DUNCAN KYLE , abridged in 13 episodes by PAT MCLOUGHUN. Read by Nigel Graham Editor CLARE SELERIE GREY
A play by DAVE SIMPSON. Stereo
Why does Col Arthur Mellows keep returning to the scene of his death and who is the pale-faced boy who plays near Entwhistle Hall ?
Glyn Worsnip scours lonely signal boxes and long-abandoned stations for more phantoms of the railways. Producer BRIAN KING BBC Pebble Mill
Stradivari's Secret
John Amis talks to violinists Salvatore Accardo and Nigel Kennedy , cellist Robert Cohen and scientist Dr Colin Gough. Stereo
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5.50-5.55
0 LETTERS: PM, BBC. London W1A 1AA
including Financial Report
starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton with Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden Chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton
Accompanied by COLIN SELL Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
Derek Cooper 's weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
by AILEEN LA TOURETTE With . and Alexandra was an actress but now that she's dying she's not prepared to put on a performance for the benefit of the hospital staff nor for her daughter. She is too old and too tired for farce but she's not prepared to play tragedy either.
Directed by JANE MORGAN. Stereo
A monthly celebration of the festival and feast days once celebrated in Britain.
Marjorie Lofthouse visits writer Julia Jones at home, to discover the various customs and traditions within the month of February.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS BBC Pebble Mill
Actress Diane Keaton plays a divorced mother determined to enjoy a liberated lifestyle and keep custody of her child in the new film The Good Mother; composer Luciano Berio has a British premiere at the Royal Opera; and the saxophonist
Andy Sheppard blows his way on to a new album.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer LIS EDWARDS
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN. Stereo
Odd Man Out (11)
Presented by David Sells Editor MARGARET BUDY
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
FM joins at 12.10
Modern Plays Witches and Witch Hunts The background to ARTHUR MILLER 'S play The Crucible, by TONY COULT (e)
