Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
6.40 Prayer for the Day FR JOHN HARRIOTT , SJ
with John Timpson In London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column S
Wildlife - Man's Concern?
URGENT.... WORLDWIDE...
TROPICAL RAINFOREST BEING LOST AT 14 ACRES PER MINUTE STOP REPORTS FROM BRITAIN INDICATE NATIONAL HABITAT BEING ERODED AT NINE ACRES PER HOUR STOP
Robert Adams , Managing Director, World Wildlife Fund, says: 'The giant panda of China, the tiger of Nepal, or the flamingo of Kenya, are not the only endangered species. We've problems in our own backyard-when did you last see ar. otter? '
Norman Myers - world traveller and environmental conservationist. reports: We are losing about one species a year (that's about one thousand times faster than before man came along). And this rate only refers to the better known birds and mammals.'
Both experts are in the studio to answer your questions on which species are endangered and what can still be done. In the chair Barbara Myers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 114; The Lord is King! Lift up thy voice (BBC hb 26); Psalm 42; John 21, vv 15-22 (NEB); 0 Lord, thou art my God and King (BBC hb 470)
A Field Full of Buttercups by DIANA COOPER
Read by Norma Ronald
' Over breakfast one morning I said " What would you like for your birthday? " He said, without having to think, "A field full of buttercups " , , s
Lechlade-on-Thames, In Gloucestershire
Mart Prichard presents the Tuesday edition, concerned with home and family affairs. With. of course, your views in What's On Your Mind?
Based on the original TV series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
Having sent Captain Mainwaring and his Home Guard platoon into the target area by mistake, it's up to Corporal Jones and Private Godfrey to save them being blown to pieces by the 25-pounders.
Featuring John Laurie, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender
With Larry Martyn, Peter Williams, Michael Burlington 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
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Reading your letters.
Hospital at Home?: ANNE MACnamara investigates a possible alternative.
2.0-2.2 News
Island in the SunT
Jamaica - white sands, blue mountains and blazing hibiscus. Cane cutters singing under a hot sky. Shanty towns and shooting in downtown Kingston. Market women shouting over yams and ackees.
ANNE CATCHPOLE has visited this Caribbean island of contrasts that's still discovering its identity 14 years after independence.
ReflectionsonaMountain Summer by JOANNA M. GLASS abridged in ten parts by BA MASON
Read by Phil Brown (1)
' Somewhere in the Canadian Rockies there's a summer resort called Buena Vista. I talk about it a great deal. My friends listen and ask: " If it's all that great, why haven't you ever gone back? " I don't know how to answer, except to say I was young in Buena
Vista.' (Music:Barber'sViolin Concerto)
Story: The Canary That Wouldn't Sing by DOROTHY STUCKY
by Victor Hugo, adapted for radio in 16 parts by Barry Campbell, Constance Cox and Val Gielgud
Robert Hardy as Victor Hugo, Trevor Martin as Jean Valjean, Jean Rogers as Cosette and Steve Hodson as Marius.
Marius discovers a spy-hole in his bedroom wall and learns some disturbing facts about his neighbours.
This episode produced and directed by Christopher Venning
(Sunday's broadcast)
visits Nottingham
Members of the Cliff Group Women's Institute put their questions to FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS , ALAN GEMMELL Questionraaster michael barratt Producer kenneth FORD BBC Manchester
Poison and Adelaide Bartlett
7: George Dyson-a Ruined Man
Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A quiz devised by EDWARD 1. MASON and TONY shryam:
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
| Ian Wallace and Denis Nordcn f In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
Par: 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
Presenter Jacky Gillott
Douglas Stuart reporting
What's Become of Waring (2)
preceded by Weather
