6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day FR ANTHONY STOREY
Introduced by Michael Clayton and John Timpson
6.50
Travel news, What's on and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk; at 7.35* Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Travel news
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Todav including at S.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35* Today's Papers
(Sat's broadcast: shortened) ‡
New Every Morning (new edi. tion) p 75; How lovely are thy dwellings fair! (BBC HB 458); Psalm 119, part 2: Samuel 17, vv 21-38a (NEB); Behold the amazing gift (BBC HB 484)
The Tommy Crans / by ELIZABETH BOWEN
Read by Pitt Wilkinson
' The Tommy Crans had lost all their money - it wasn'fair to expect them to keep it; they were generous and gay.'
Jim Bullock , now 70, followed the pattern set by great-grand-father-who first went down a Yorkshire pit in 1776 - grand-father and father. He can recall, from memories handed down, some of the'bad old days ' when the average life of a miner was 27 years, though his own time saw the emergence of the National Coal Board and a new deal for the miner.
Now in retirement, JIM BULLOCK farms the acres which once belonged to past mine owners. Talking to Jackie Charlton. his great friend now managing Middlesbrough FC, and other associates, Jim takes a philosophical look at life both past and present.
Compiled and narrated by Tony Van den Bergh
Producer ALAN BURGESS
Simon Harcourt-Smith remembers his time in China nearly 40 years ago, when he had the job of cataloguing the marvellous collection of clocks and automata sent from Europe to the Emperors of China. He illustrates his talk with recordings of clocks and singing birds: recorded by courtesy of the Victoria and Albert and British Museums.
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Presenter Joan Yorke Health and Wet/are
One in Two Thousand or One in Four?: DAVID HAWKSWORTH talks to DR HUGH JOLLY about Cystic Fibrosis.
Relax - and Enjoy It! (2): JANE MADDERS continues her series.
Illustrated book, Relax, available from booksellers, price 65p
12.55 medium ivave only
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two: the second of four discussions on the proposed anti-discrimination bill. 2: Training and employment
2.0-2.2 News
Let's March with the RWA: BARBARA YATES ROTHWELL forms a society for rotten wives.
Arts Notebook: a monthly look at work in progress. TONY BRiTTON reads
The Long Divorce (4)
Story: The surprise Parcel by IRENE NORTHAM
The Locksley Marriage Prize ‡
The life and times of a broadcaster-about-town
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
4.0-4.5 News
A Gentleman of France by STANLEY WEYMAN
Read by JOHN SAMSON 9: The Plague
William Hardcastle
5.59 meditim wave only Stock Market report
S.55 Weather, programme news
(Tuesday's broadcast)
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
John and Shirley Butler are what society calls ' drop-outs.' [n fact. they farm a bleak, windswept three-acre holding in Lincolnshire from which they make a frugal living from growing organic vegetables. It's a life of great physical and spiritual activity which they believe is the only solution to the stress problems of modern society.
JOAN YORKE talks to them about why they've chosen this life, and how they live it.
Written and presented by JOAN YORKE
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
By Way of a Change: Wednesdays on BBC2
The Middle East
Perspectives on the fourth Arab-Israeli War - 1
Wars- do not settle conflicts, but they often modify the attitudes of the combatants to what is at issue and to each other. This week and next. Analysis examines what changes have occurred as a result of the latest round of hostilities in the Middle East and their likely effect in the fields of diplomacy and of domestic politics.
Tonight a report on the mood in Israel by Ian Mclntyre Producer ANTHONY RENDELL
S.29 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with at 18.25* Market Trends
Wheel Fortune by KAREN CAMPBELL
Read by ANN MORRISH (9)
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. Introduced te-night by Gordon Snell
Producer Richard GILBERT
preceded by Weather
