Market prices and intelligence. the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day MRS JEAN RICHARDSON
Introduced by John Timpson and Brian Redhead including at 6.50 and 7.50 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 7.45-7.56 English Regions: see column 5
from 9.20 am Eyes
Many people would regard sight as the most precious of all the senses but often have little idea how the eye works. Eyes are complicated pieces of machinery which pick up light patterns; these are then changed into information for our brains. So it's important to know the rudiments of basic eye care and to be aware of the things that can go wrong with our eyes. Why do most people get short-sighted in middle age? What makes a child ' squint '?
In the studio to answer your questions will be a leading eye surgeon and Dr Cyril Howell , an optician.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am
NEM, p 93; Christ is our corner-stone (BBC HB 258); Psalm 11; 1 Corinthians 15, vv 1-11 (av); Give me the wings of faith to rise (BBC HB 229)
Frank and the Requirements of Tragedy by m. STEWART Read by Brian Hayes
'Frank possessed two upper dentures, referred to in the bosom of his family as Pop's home set and Pop's executive set ... '
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Presenter Jeanine McMullen
Careers without O-levels: the Ilth in our series about people who started their careers without any O-levels, is about a hairdressing salon manager. Careers without O-levels, including today's story and 19 others: £1.00 from bookshops.
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Clement Freud
Peter Jones , Sheila Hancock and Graeme Garden try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics introduced by Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor The Big Band Sound: PAUL TILS-LEY with an old sound new sound.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Hippos, Orchids and the Gift of Water: flower artist DOROTHY BOVEY describes some of the excitements of the Zaire expedition.
The Healthiness of Health Foods - 2: dairy produce. MARGARET INGLIS reads
A Cage of Hummingbirds by JUNE DRUMMOND (10)
Story: The Conceited Red Balloon by ANGELA PICKERING Guest storyteller WENDY CRAIG
by GEORGE MEREDITH
3: Plot and Counterplot
House of Cards by STANLEY ELLIN
Read by BLAIN FAIRMAN 7: Escape
The news magazine presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHKYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
BARRY CRYER presents a tribute to the humour of Groucho Marx. with illustrations from the soundtracks of such famous Marx Brothers films as Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, and A Night at the Opera. Written and produced by BOB OLIVER ROGERS
Part 1 as Radio 3. followed by an interlude
A well-known criminal lawyer introduces poems about a composite Cockney character who has appeared before him in the dock for various misdemeanours.
Reader JOHN HOLUS i Tomorrow: Radio 4 at 4.5 pm A Policeman's Lot; BBC1 at
10.15 pm Break-In)
Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer ANNE WINDER
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Five Roundabouts to Heaven by JOHN BINGHAM
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (5)
preceded by Weather
