6.22 Farming Week: presented from the North by KEN FORD
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by Alan Watson and Desmond Lynam. Including at 6.50 and 7.58 VHF Regional news and weather; at
6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news.
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
English Regions: see column 5
Let loose among the BBC Sound Archives, Dr Pyke surprises himself with what science has done to noises down on the farm.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
aided by Harriet Crawley. Sheridan Morley , Lance Perci val, Esther Rantzen. Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl.
Enjoy a mixture of argument, humour and music as they meet the personalities, preview the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead. Producer HUGH PURCELL
Can you tell me which animals prey on the anacondar It's such a large snake I can'imagine which they might be. The Wildlife team try to solve this and other mysteries. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
Questions (on postcards) to Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 62: Father of peace (BBC HB 488): Psalm 36: Psalm 2, vv 1-8 (NEB): Through the night of doubt and sorrow (BBC HB 186)
Above the Tree Line by GEORGE HITCHIN
Read by Martin Jarvis
It was a pity that the prosaic Dr Bryan. swatting his way through the fly swarms, didn'know the wonder he had wrought: the excited boy, the perplexed old man, up there above the tree line
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm) 1
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Jobs for the Guv'nors: JOHN TURTLE talks to DEWI REES about professional executive recruitment.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Charles MacKerras. Show more
Charles Mackerras, conductor, with Roy Plomley
12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams Editor ANDREW BOYLE
from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor
.Talk till Two.
2.0 2.2 News
Top to Toe: a series of weekly exercises with ESTHER FAIRFAX to help you look and feel better.
Holidays in Britain (3) ' All wrapped up ': PATSY KUMM looks at a variety of package deals.
Pasta, Pulses and Grain (1) Spaghetti: MYRA STREET'S suggestions for inexpensive meals. The Love School: JOHN HALE talks about the Pre-Raphaelites, that extraordinary coterie of artists, poets, friends and lovers.
Battledore and Shuttlecock by BARBARA GOOLDEN : abridged and read by Monica Grey
Famous actress Amelia Page has three children by three separate marriages. Now she is to marry for the fourth time. But should she ever have married at all?
(First of ten parts. Music: Poulenc's Piano Concerto)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
John Hale is the author of The Brotherhood, part 1 of the new BBC2 series The Love School: Wed 9.25 pm and pages 60-63
Story: Dale Pits Pantomime by ELAINE DAVIS
Presenters SEAN BARRETT and AURIOL SMITH
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer JENYTB WORSLEY
The Heaven Tree by EDITH PARGETER
North Star by HAMMOND INNES abridged for radio in ten parts and read by David Mahlowe
Oil rigs and financial speculation; shadowy international figures bent on destroying Britain's economy; and one lonely trawler skipper trying to find his real self. That is a typically appetising Hammond Innes recipe. Add tremendous action and tension, and mix together in the stormy seas off Shetland, and you have an adventure story to satisfy the keenest appetite.
1: The Troublemaker
Producer HERBERT SMITH (Manchester)
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud Peter Jones. Andrie Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Rptd: Wednesday 12.27 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in Why Not Stay for Breakfast? ' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
The Machine Wreckers by ERNST HUGHES : translated and adapted for radio by PETER TEGEL with Barry Foster
Peter Jeffrey , Anthony Jackson and Geoffrey Matthews
The story ' of the Luddites, Nottingham 1812-1815
' Why have you come? To wreck the machine? Will you wreak havoc on your own future out of spite? I know this machine. and I can tell you this: it is your salvation.' Cast in order of speaking
Lord Chancellor.DENIS MCCARTHY Producer
MARTIN JENKINS
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Peter France Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
Twice Brightly: written and read by Harry Secombe abridged by NIGEL LAMBERT
Larry Gower. Welsh, tubby and myopic, is demobbed in 1946 and sets out to take the music-hall by storm. Our budding comedian's first professional week brings him in contact with strippers, hoofers, rival comedians, gentlemen in drag, a jealous lion-tamer and a woman scorned. In fact, it's a laugh a line in this ever-so-slightly autobiographical first novel by Secombe of the Goons, read by the man himself. i First of 15 instalments) Producer JOHN CARDY
Another chance this week to hear Harry Secombe in Encore the Goons: Friday 6.15 pm
preceded by Weather
