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 (Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 60-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 medium wave Keep Fit for All the Family with EILEEN FOWLER , or VHF Regional news and weather; at 7.55 Weather and programme news
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sportsde.sk at 8.30'; Papers at 8.40*
Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad.
9.5 From Our Own - Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week In Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with IAN WALLER
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
PETER PATERSON reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PAULINE BUSHNELL Narrator JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER , JEREMY ECCLES
New Every Morning, page 122; Brief life is here our portion (BBC Hymn Book 241); Psalm 34, vv 11-22; Wisdom of Solomon 5, vv 1-10, 13-16 (RSV): For all the saints who from their labours rest (BBC HB 227)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her own selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and Television during the past seven days.
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
Presented by Geoff Watts
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producer DAVID PATERSON
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings. as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Hugh Scanlon Melvyn Bragg Arianna Stassinopoulos Graham Dowson
Chairman David Jacobs from Hampshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
with Judith Chalmers and Andy Price
(produced by the Woman's Hour Unit) meets LORD MOUNTBATTEN; lends an ear to male chauvinism in pop music: learns about Rape Crisis Centres in America; opens the European Papers; and continues the investigation of Money from A to Z. And
MARTIN MUNCASTER reads
Monsieur Favrolet and Friends by RICHARD COMPTON-HALL 5: Tendresse Afloat
Are You Lying Comfortably? by MICHAEL BARTLETT
ARNOLD: You're wasting your time here. There's no money in the 'ouse ... You won't find nothing 'ere.
RALPH: Oh, my goodness. You surely don't think.... I'm a burgler?
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Wednesday 11.30am)
as Radio 3
Nicholas Woolley
. with PM's reporting team
Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Unpredictable table-talk bounced off the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense, with observers of and contributors to the current social, artistic and political scene.
Occasional musical intervals by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
William Frankel, Editor of The Jewish Chronicle, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Road to Gretna Green by PETER HUNT with Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres
' The jurors present that Edward Gibbon Wakefield , gentleman. unlawfully and for the sake of gain. did take Ellen Turner , a maid unmarried and within the age of 16 years. and did marry her at Gretna Green, against the peace of our Lord the King....'
Producer TONY CLIFF (Manchester) *
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
Susan Hill
Stanley Ellis and Frank Field in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer GILLIAN HUSH (Manchester)
Evening prayers conducted by REV HUBERT HOSKINS
preceded by Weather