60th Birthday Week
A journey through the archives, plus a dose of the real world in the form of crucial EEC farm and food price talks in Brussels.
With THE REV DK BILL MORRIS. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys 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
with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo
Clay Jones calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki. Fred Downham and Sue Phillips to solve gardening problems sent in by listeners. producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Martha's List
Read by Polly March
NEM. p 30; There is a green hill far away (BBC HB 92); Drop, drop slow tears (Gibbons);
Mark 15, vv 1-15; When I survey the wondrous cross (BBC HB 97) Stereo
A series of five programmes.
Homicide, the unlawful killing of another, is a perennial focus of popular fascination. Taking a snapshot of the 685 homicides committed in the UK in 1986, Hugh Prysor-Jones discovers who is killing whom. 2: The Scene
Why did it happen?
Producer JOHN FORSYTH
In this five-part series,
John Humphrys talks to successful people who have weathered major storms in their careers. Would they, with hindsight, do things differently.' 2 Eddy Shah - whose two attempts to establish national newspapers ended in disaster. Producer BRIAN KING BBC Pebble Mill
Presented by John Waite
Teams from Today and The
Independent battle it out, with Simon Bates as referee, in the upstairs bar of a Fleet Street pub. The men and women who reported the news are challenged on just how much they know about it.
A revealing clue: it was the year when an American puppet with 85 separate movements, costing close to $1,000,000, was breaking all box-office records.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT. Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall
The Great Easter-Egg Hunt (3) Stereo
Politics, places and people, finance, fashion and food.
Jenni Murray and guests puzzle out the meaning of life, love, and anything women worry about and laugh about together. Serial: Driving in the Dark (10)
by STEVE WALKER.
With Graham Crowden as Uncle Ginger.
Ginger's nephew Lionel has a problem; there's a tea party going on in his stomach and he's fallen in love with one of the guests. What can Ginger do to help?
With JOAN WALKER
NICHOLAS COURTNEY and JO KENDALL Directed by NED CHAILLET. Stereo
The second of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks with the poet Vernon Scannell. Reader PHILIP voss Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
On the West Bank, the Palestinian uprising continues to challenge Israel's occupation.
Roisin McAuley asks: who will break the stalemate? Producer BRENDAN MCCARTHY Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
Picture Yourself a Collector There's an optimism among new gallery owners, where sales of paintings, drawings and prints are rising, and where a new breed of collector is buying. Anne Theroux finds out if this optimistic spirit extends to the artists themselves and to the colleges who send them to market.
Producer ANTHONY DENSELOW Stereo
Presented by Robert Williams and Hugh Sykes
5.00,5,30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
including Financial Report
i The Man in Black,
Edward de Souza , introduces
13 plays of horror and suspense. 10: Survival by JOHN WYNDHAM
, dramatised by PAT HOOKER.
With Karen Ascoe as Alice.
A group of people in outer space find things become a matter of life or death, each dependant on the other in a horrifying way.
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo
A four-part comedy drama written and adapted by RICHARD QUICK. Starring and 3: Simon feels sure that he knows what his family are doing behind his back. The centre of the family cannot hold things together. Things are falling apart.
TOM MILES (piano)
Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
(Details tomorrow at 9.05am)
A radio portrait in conversation. recollection and anecdote. Editor ALASTAIR OSHORNE
Germaine Greer 's new book is a quest for her father, a man about whom she realised she knew virtually nothing; and the poet Tony Harrison 's latest work is a new version of Moliere's The Misanthrope for Bristol Old Vic.
Presenter Christopher Bigsby Producer NOAH RICHLER. Stereo
Appleby at Allington (8)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
FM joins at 12.10
