Market prices and intelligence. the weather and what's new for farmers.
6.511
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
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.411 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook i Repeat)
with Paul Barnes
At 8.0
News and more of Today with 8.25* VHF Regional news and weather
t.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Talking Politics
ANTHONY KING presents the second of six programmes to mark the Bicentenary of the United States of America in which he asks ' are there any American political institutions or ways of doing things which we ought to consider importing to Britain? '
2: Government in the Sunshine - the Freedom of Information Act
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES invites journalists to confront their readers and the people they have written about in ths press this week. Narrator JOHN HEDGES
Producers PADDY O'KEEFF& and ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning, page 93; Might and glory, power and wisdom (BBC Hymn Book 265); Psalm 11: Acts 1, vv 15.26 (AV); Thy hand. 0 God, has guided (BBC HB 187)
Presented by DEREK COOPER Producer JANE MARSHALL
Presented by Anthony Smith
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
presents f, your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.
12.55 medium .wave only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Lady Burnett Marghanita Laski
The Archbishop of York Arthur Scargilj
Chairman David Jacobs from South Yorkshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
Judith Chalmers and Norman Tozer sometimes in control of a lively hour. with reporters at large and guests in the studio.
And JOHN PULLEN reads Ebenezer 32 by PHILIP PURSER. abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN. .. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
by Stewart Love
with
Widowed at last, Frank can wear what he likes and drink what he likes: and he does. But the hard living can't last. On his sister's advice he seeks a new wife, in the place where eligible widows are most likely to gather - the graveyard.
BBC Northern Ireland
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, for violin and viola (K 364)
KONSTANTY KULKA , STEFAN KAMASA WARSAW PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA conducted by KAROL TEUTSCH (gramophone record)
Balakirev Oriental fantasia:' Islamey
ANDREI GAVRILOV (piano)
(Finnish Radio recording from the 1975 Helsinki Festival)
Balakirev Symphony No 1, in c major
MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conductor KYRIL KONDRASHIN (Soviet Radio recording)
All the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
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 THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Eric Simms, naturalist and broadcaster, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
(Roy Plomley is the guest in Does the Team Think?, Monday 6.15 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Enemies Within by MICHAEl. Z. LEWIN with
Albert Samson is a laconic, rather seedy, non-violent private detective from Indianapolis who in the month before Christmas - not a good time for private eyes - ' people try not to think about the things they hire detectives for. so they don't hire detectives'finds himself offered an apparently straightforward job. It's only when he becomes more interested in investigating his client that things become at first strange and then definitely bizarre.
Produced and directed by ROGER PINE. BBC Birmingham
Charles Wheeler Derek Prag and George Wedell in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
Evening prayers conducted by REV JOHN LANG
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