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 (BBC 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 Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.401
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 ROBERT CARVEL
10.0 News io.2 The Weekly World
ANNA RAEBURN reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by JOHN MARSH Narrator SUSAN DENNY
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
ANNE SLOMAN and JEREMY ECCLES
New Every Morning, page 42; Jcsu, thy mercies are untold (BBC Hymn Book 324); Psalm 84; Isaiah 7, vv 1-4, 10 and 16 (AV); Hark, the glad sound, the Saviour comes (BBC HB 490)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her own selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and Television during the past seven days.
Producer MADEAU STEWART
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producer DAVID PATERSON
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Cliff Mlchelmore Jack Hedley
Cranley Onslow. mp Helene Hayman. mp
Chairman David Jacobs from Cornwall
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
with Jill Burridge and Andy Price competes for prizes at the Royal Smithfield Show: turns the pages of the European papers; and examines the financial world in the A-Z of Money.
And MICHAEL PERTWEE reads the fifth part of his book Name Dropping, abridged in seven instalments by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Summer Exhibition by TREVOR HUMBER with and Three strangers meet at the Summer Exhibition. They soon express their views about the paintings - and each other. Producer IAN COTTERELL
as Radio 3
Gordon Clough 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 FRANCES DONNELLY
Frederick Forsyth, novelist, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
Dramatised by Geoffrey M. Matthews from the novel by Peter Lovesey.
'Trying to walk 500 miles in six days. That's no sport. For sheer cruelty even bare-knuckle fighting don't compare!'
David Basnett. Stuart Holland and Esmond Wright in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON (BBC Manchester)
Evening prayers led by JOHN STUART ROBERTS
preceded by Weather
