Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
A weekly review of the agricultural scene
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 70-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 medium wave Keep Fit for All the Family with EILEEN FOWI.ER, or VHF Regional news and weather; at 7.55 Weather and programme news At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
(Nert edition: Tues 10.5 am)
9.30 Conference Special
ROBERT MCKENZIE reports on the Labour Party Conference at Blackpool and discusses the main issues of the week with some of the leading participants.
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
PETER PATERSON reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by COLIN DORAN Narrator PAULINE BUSHNELL Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER , JEREMY ECCLES
New Every Morning, page 9: All things bright and beautiful (BBC HB 3); Psalm 8: Mark 10, vv 17-31 (NEB): 0 Lord of heaven and earth and sea (BBC HB 14)
inedium wave only
MARGARET HOWARD presents her own selection of items from BBC Radio and Television*
Presented by Brian J. Ford
A weekly survey of what Is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone Marghanita Laski Lord Pitt
David English from London
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
with Judith Chalmers and Norman Tozer
(produced by the Woman's Hour Unit) presents a prize for a winning 'Weekend Limerick'; explains Money from A to Z; asks if food price surveys are any use; discovers What the European Papers Say; indulges in 'Nostalgia for the 50s' and introduces a Weekend guest.
Monsieur Favrolet and Friends by Richard Compton-Hall in five parts
Read by Martin Muncaster 1: Miss Basket 1975
Talking of Michelangelo by MICHAEL KITTERMASTER
CLIVE: As for friends, . . I think you are the only one I have.
NORMA: Maybe that's progress. Who said that a woman is first an agreeable acquaintance. then a mistress, and only finally a friend?
Producer GERRY JONES
as Radio 3
Nicholas Woolley
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Conversational entertainment bounced off the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense by Dennis Barker , Dr Edward de Bono. Benny Green and who knows who else.
Musical comments by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Paul Jennings, author, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
Paradise adapted from his novel by ALLAN PRIOR with Barry Foster as Abbott Carole Hayman as Angel and Rudolph Walker as Snow
To the money-man Abbott, survivor of a lost marriage, the paradise of Bermuda represents unexpected peace. To his ambitious girlfriend Angel, it is a stepping-stone to Broadway. To Snow. black and born locally but with an international reputation as a director of musicals, the island is a political symbol.
Song composed by RON GEESIN Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
Michael Steed
Leon Brittan. mp
Maurice Temple Smith in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (Manchester)
Evening prayers led by ANGELA TILBY
preceded by Weather
