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 Today's listening; weather
A weekly review of the agricultural scene
Introduced by KEN FORD BBC Manchester
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
with Paul Barnes
At 8.0
News and more of Today with 8.25* VHF Regional news and weather
on behalf of The Conservative Party
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
New Every Morning, page 114; For all thy saints (BBC Hymn Book 228); Psalm 82; Mark 3, vv 7-21 (AV); Ye boundless realms of joy (BBC HB 483)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Presented by Dr Richard Fisher 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
Lord Robens
Cyril Smith. MP Cliff Michelmore Hilary Hodge
Chairman David Jacobs from Greater Manchester BBC Bristol
with Jill Burridge and Norman Tozer and some Mayday celebrations and surprises.
And ASTLEY JONES reads In the Dead of the Truffle Season by PATRICIA HIGHSMITH , abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Tiger by DEREK RABY
A child strikes up a conversation with a tiger in a zoo. Without making us feet its weight - he has a nice sense of the comic - Mr Raby sustains a little philosophical discussion about the meaning of freedom.
(DAVID WADE, The Times)
Other parts: NIGEL GRAHAM ANTHONY HALL , DIANA BISHOP Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
as Radio 3
Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
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.
Musical intervals by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Sir William Gladstone , the Chief Scout, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with ROY PLOMLEY , who devised the programme. Producer DEREK DRESCHER
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The House on the Strand
The novel by DAPHNE du MAURIER adapted for radio by PHILIP LEAVER and KAY PATRICK with Ian Richardson
A man finds he can revisit the past. His fascination with what he sees becomes a passion. with terrifying results. One of Daphne du Maurier's most hauntingly sinister stories. Today :
The 14th century:
Special sound by DAVID CAIN of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
Baroness Pike John Mackintosh , mp and Joe Rogaly in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
Evening prayers conducted by FR PATRICK MCENROE
preceded by Weather
