Farming, food and countryside news. Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom
with Rosemary Foxcroft
Presenters
Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue
Four programmes reassessing sound-archive recordings on the British and their weather.
2: Climatologist Mick Kelly explores the archives for recollections of the Surge of 1953 in East Anglia. Might such terrible flooding occur again and how would people cope?
Producer Beaty Rubens
with Melvyn Bragg, Mark Lawson and guests Dirk Bogarde, Lord Hailsham, Glenda Jackson, Sheridan Morley
(Stereo)
Technical Difficulties
Reader Eleanor Bron.
Written by Clare Boylan.
Director Peter Kavanagh Stereo (R)
from St George 's Church, Belfast, led by the Rev Dr Robert Tosh. In Christ There Is No
East or West; Jeremiah 6, vv 8-14; Peace,
Perfect Peace; 0 God of Love, 0 King of Peace
with Simon Rae and guest Tony Harrison who gives the first public reading of his new poem, The Mother of the Muses. Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo
0 REQUESTS to: Poetry
Please!, BBC Bristol. BSS 2LR
Presenter John Howard Editor Ken Vass
0 TRENDS: page 85
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. In the chair
Robert Robinson.
Second semi-final - Midlands and North West.
Derek Andrews (schoolmaster)
Christopher Gonet
(computer consultant) James Eccleson
(insurance broker) Philip Wharmby (clerical officer).
Including 'Beat the Brains' in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Producer Richard Edis
Stereo
Presenter
James Naughtie Editor Roger Mosey
Gregory Goggly Makes a New Friend Producer David Ian Neville Stereo (R)
Jenni Murray meets the novelist
Elizabeth Jane Howard.
Serial: Love Among the Single Classes
The 11th of 13 episodes read by Maureen O'Brien and Sean Barrett.
Written by Angela Lambert
Abridged by Janet Hickson Editor Clare Selerie-Grey
Stereo
A Small Country Festival Paul Allen visits Ludlow to discover what makes a small town tick during Festival Fortnight.
with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes Editor Kevin Marsh
0 WRITE to: PM Letters, BBC, London WIA IAA
and Financial Report
Stereo
Humphrey Carpenter looks at the members and activities of six literary societies.
3: The Arthur Conan
Doyle Society, devoted to the creator of Professor Challenger, Brigadier Gerard and, of course,
Sherlock Holmes.
Japanese girl Mitsuko falls in love with British boy Leon. In colour, race and custom, they are worlds apart... Written by Catherine L Czerkawska.
(Stereo)
(Repeated Saturday at 2.30pm)
'I heard people passing the gate say, "You know she's a millionaire" - the inference being no one in their right mind would let her live there if she weren't!'
In the third of four talks
Alan Bennett recalls how an unusual visitor took up residence in his garden and turned it into a long-stay car park. Producer Gillian Hush (R)
Kate Saunders backs into the future; Alberto
Moravia, author of Rome, publishes a new novel; and Pat Rowe reports on the schools whose theatre skills have taken them to the National Theatre.
Producer Mike Greenwood Stereo
Presenter Roger White Stereo
Presenter
Richard Kershaw
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
Tales of an Old
Horse Trader
Leroy Judson Daniels was born in 1882 in Iowa and, from the age of 10, horses and horse-trading were his life. When he was 100, he told his story to Helen S Herrick.
The fourth of five parts read by Karl Schmidt. Abridged by John Scotney
