Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
S.40 Prayer for the Day
CANON ROY MCKAY
Introduced by Brian Redhead in London and Michael Cooke in Manchester
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather; at C.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 English Regions: see column 5
Five short stories by A. j. ALAN Read by IAN CARMICHAEL
3: My Adventure in Norfolk
The door was pushed open from inside and something fell out on me. It wedged me against the wall. It also knocked the candle out of my hand. I felt, rather gingerly, and found it was a man - a dead man - with a moustache.
A Touch of the Blues?
What is a nervous breakdown? If you have one, how can you be treated? Mental illness is no longer as feared as it used to be, as the BBC's Science Correspondent James Wilkin son discovers.
Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country.
Introduced by JOHN HEDGES Producer TERRY LLOYD
NEM, p 42; God save our gracious Queen (BBC HB 392); Psalm 122; Luke 24, vv 25-35 (RSV): Christ the Lord is risen again (BBC HB 101)
Notes from the Journal of a Quick-Tempered Man by ANTON CMEKHOV translated by HARVEY PITCHER and JAMES FORSYTH
Read by Gabriel Woolf
4 I am a serious person with a philosophical turn of mind. It's quite obvious that I can have absolutely no interest in young ladies, romance, the moon and suchlike nonsense ... now here I am about to be married! Dammit! You'd better watch out! Leading a quick-tempered, violent man to the altar ...'
The Dark Cornelian
Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights -or Do I? Find out in today's edition.
A general knowledge contest Chairman Robert Robinson 9: Midlands
BRIAN HALL (Staffordshire), lecturer
MRS JEAN HEBDEN (Staffordshire), teacher
ARTHUR THOMAS (Warwickshire). retired pensions manager MRS HILARY YOUNG
(Northamptonshire) including Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , who, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions. Producer TONY LUKE
(Repeated; Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF (except London and SEI Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Sir Henry Plumb. President of the National Farmers' Union.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Do-It-Yourself Medicine.
How Do You Do? How Do You Do?: SYLVIA MARGOLIS enquires, politely, into ' etiquette '.
Helen with the High Hand (2)
Story: Pottle Pig's Easier Egg by NANCY NORTHCOTE
Dog and his Day
A play for stereo by MIKE ARBLASTER with Norman Shelley and David Timson
The WDHP Co owns a factory employing 1.000 people, but they don't have a line each, so the phones to admin office always seem to be engaged. That's one of the reasons they say WDHP stands for ' We Do Have Problems '. Then, of course, there's the little matter of something with wings falling into the canal and being rescued by a junior admin officer, name of Basset, who likes trees -' WDHP ' indeed!
Produced and directed by JEAN BOWER
or Calico Pie to Camelot
On the coast of Coromandel where the early pumpkins blow
Row us out from Desenzano to your Sirmione row
On this coast of Coromandel shrimps and watercresses grow
There beneath the Roman
Ruins where the purple flowers grow.
1 Edward Lear 's admiration for the poetry of Tennyson was so much a part of his life that the words of master and disciple can be fused without sacrilege, and his own poetry is full of Tennysonian " echoes answering ".'
H. Colin Davis presents an anthology of words and music which traces the relationship between Lear, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Emily Tennyson. Readers
ROSALIND SHANKS , DAVID DAVIS Singer and pianist ANTONY MIALL
Technical assistance by MICHAEL FLETCHER. PETER DOREY Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Bonjour Tristesse (3)
Robert Williams
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
starring Kenneth Williams with Lance Percival Miriam Margolyes and the Nic Rowley Trio
Script by PETER SPENCE , with additional material by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH , TOM MAGEE-ENGLE-FIELD and PHILIP MUNNOCH Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
The National Theatre
Ring Robin Day to put your questions on the National Theatre and its implications for the theatre in Britain as a whole, to Peter Hall. Director of the National Theatre. Producer WALTER WALLICH
Call [number removed]from 6.0 pm
The Croydon Poison Mystery of 1928-9 by RICHARD WHITTINGTON-EGAN adapted for broadcasting and produced by TERENCE TILLER Narrator John Rye
Others taking part: MIRANDA FORBES
MARJORIE WESTBURY
PAULINE WYNNE. WILFRID CARTER STEVE HODSON. DAVID NEAL and MALCOLM REID
(Revised repeat: 30 April)
Presenter Peter France
Douglas Stuart reporting
Fanny by Gaslight
3: Behind the Cupboard Door
Tonight: Adrian Porter on Latin America
'There is a strong view in Latin America that birth control is a plot by the developed nations to hold down the under-developed.'
(Tomorrow: Anthony Lawrence on China)
preceded by Weather
