Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day BISHOP ANTHONY OTTER
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 7.45-7.50
from 9.20 am Motorway Driving
Does speed kill? How can we help ourselves? What are the police doing on the motorways, hounding or helping? Can a lot of the simple breakdowns be avoided?
Put your questions to Superintendent Walter Hambrey, in charge of the Midlands Motorway Sub-Division, and Bill Sutton, Road Services Manager for the Automobile Association in the Midlands.
In the Chair Teresa McGonagle
Produced in Birmingham by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am
NEM, p 62; Come, let us to the Lord our God (BBC HB 487); Psalm 36; Luke 17, vv 11-19 (rsv): Rejoice today with one accord (BBC HB 281)
Where Can I Feed the Gulls? by GRAHAM SEAL
Read by Mary Wimbush
' A girl was running down the steps to the beach. Her hands were outstretched and she was calling to an empty sky
Market Bosworth. Leicestershire
Presenter Mari Prichard Home and family affairs
Based on the original TV series by JIMMY PERRY and DAVID CROFT
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn.
On the occasion of the goodwill visit by a distinguished Russian, the Town Council of Walmington-on-Sea decides to offer him the freedom of the town...
featuring JOHN LAURIE ARNOLD RIDLEY, IAN LAVENDER
With BILL PERTWEE LARRY MARTYN , JULIAN ORCHARD, FRASER KERR and JOHN SNAGGE
Adapted for radio by HAROLD SNOAD and MICHAEL KNOWLES
Producer JOHN DYAS
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather and Programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The Dukes: there are 26 left-descendants of looters, royal bastards and generals, the dotty and the despotic. PAUL BARNEs has been looking beneath the coronets.
2.0-2.2 News
Setting up Home-7: is it really an Englishman's castle? If Only More Men Would ...: be less patronising in public life, says BARONESS PHILLIPS
* Barefoot Sisters: 12 East African nuns prepare to nurse in rural Tanzania.
The Rainbird Pattern (6)
Story: Sing a Song by MARJORIE NEWMAN
by THOMAS HARDY
6: Remember... Remember....
Death on the Nile by AGATHA CHRISTIE
Read by ANNA MASSEY 12: Love Kills!
The news magazine: presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting teas
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVI RACE
BBC Birmingham
John Tidmarsh
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
Presenter Edwin Mullins
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Sleeper Awakes
Read by ROBERT HARDY (7)
preceded by Weather
