I m in press for the day with Neil Gardner. Now on B.B.C. Radio four farming today presented by Charlotte Smith good morning today roo books farming future what we find tracked is but those in the future might be replaced by many small slow moving autonomous robots to go around the farm and do their job more on that later now the summer a agricultural show season begins in earnest with some of the biggest events coming up in the next few weeks the royal Botham West Shepton Mallett the Royal Cornwall at Wadebridge and the three counties more than so expect some impressive beasts in the show rings and according to today s producer Vern the most majestic of the lot of the Hereford cattle feel free to disagree on email is farming dot today B.B.C. Took a cake now Herefords a prized beef breed they ve been exported as far away as America Russia and Japan but that also attracting attention closer to home with farmers from all over the U.K. Bringing stock from Britain s leading herds to pedig
This is where we part company with the B.B.C. World Service to begin a new day on B.B.C. Radio four it s still a very in Chris Aldridge with you on the early shift and later we re joined by a young bird a blogger to explain why he s captivated by a particular Swan In tweet of the day that story Jesse long presents more or your experiences it s hard to be like encountering in the bush is launching your. Adventures in sound on B.B.C. Radio four beginning with the stories of those far from home I actually logged off people of a lot of really things including a collection of postcards stamped and addressed but not written or certain what did I mean to write in this blank spaces that I planned to speak there whether there was a food or the music quite possibly I had nothing to say short cuts presented by juicy long on B.B.C. Radio four starting next Tuesday afternoon at three. Now with a look at seafaring conditions Good morning hand the shipping forecast issued by the mess office on behal
Saying on your dawn for us all black and white together thank your God for freeing our country from racism and operation and for liberating all our people thank you for the courage of those who initiated change in one nine hundred sixty seven two members of the Rolling Stones appeared before magistrates in Chittister in West Sussex charged with drug offenses make Jagger and Keith Richards pleaded not guilty and then fifteen zero eight Michael Angelo began work painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican that completes this morning s news reefing there already affords time for prayer for the day with the Reverend Dr Kirsti thoughts from the United Reformed Church good morning we really that lecture hall to hear announce speak it give a talk on spirituality and pastoral care she began in a way I ve never come across from anyone else before all saints she put a travel bag on the table took out ten notes and then reach back into her holdall to pull out a medium sized teddy b
Much that is precious Father thank You that every one of us is unique give us wisdom to truly love value and get to know one another in ways that will enrich us how man pray for the day was presented by George Craig a retired senior civil a retired senior civil servant and a Methodist local preacher in Cardiff the Today programme coming up presented by Nick Robinson and Justin Webb in fifteen minutes but now it s time for farming today with Charlotte Smith good morning to day when does the dry spell become a drought or perhaps when digging a field sounds like this. More on the lack of rain later first calls to name and shame farmers in Scotland who have animals infected with B.V.D. Bovine viral diarrhea affects cattle all over the U.K. It compromises their immune systems and means they don t grow at a normal rate this viral disease is largely spread by carves which of course it will in the womb and can never get rid of the infection these persistently infected or P.R. Animals have to
Run McCauley when I had just a couple of events that happened on this date in the past the battle of chick spree in fourteen seventy one helped bring the wars of the roses to an end the Darby was running for the first time in Epsom in seventeen eighty the winner was dying Med The jockey was Sam Arnall and the owner such awls Bunbury and a fire broke out at an annual charity event supported by the French aristocracy in eight hundred ninety seven more than a hundred twenty people were killed many of them leading socialites that runs off this morning s news briefing here on the A.B.C. Radio four time for prayer for the day with George Craig a retired senior civil servant and a Methodist local preacher in Cardiff Good morning I think it s fair to say that one of the high points of the last year for me in more ways than one was my visit to Cologne Cathedral it s a gloriously beautiful building with an extraordinary history but it also has two of the highest church spires in Europe and if y