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 at 8. 25* VHF Regional news and weather
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Conference Special
The BBC's Industrial Correspondent, JOHN HOSKEN , lOOkS back on the tuc's week in Brighton and talks to some of the delegates about the main issues of the week.
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES invites journalists to confront their readers and the people they have written about in the press this week. Narrator JOHN HEDGES
Producers GRAHAM MYTTON
ANNE SLOMAN and DAVID WALTER
New Every Morning, page 54: Holy Spirit, truth divine (BBC Hymn Book 155); Psalm 143: Matthew 8, v 18 to 9, v 1 (rsv); Jerusalem, my happy home (BBC HB 247)
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer HELEN FRY
Presented by Geoff Watts
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad. Producer THELMA RUMSEY
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A light-as-a-feather form of entertainment for the wireless with Donald Swann (and piano) and LESLIE RANDALL
JANET BROWN , LOIS LANE and JACK EMBLOW (and Quartet) Producer JOHN BROWELL
(Repeated: Monday 11.5 am)
Anne Gregg and Peter Windows sometimes in control of a lively hour, with reporters at large, guests in the studio.
And COLETTE O'NEIL reads the second instalment of A Breath of Border Air by LAVINIA DERWENT.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
by Peter McKelvey
with Sylvia Syms and Peter Baldwin
'I'm such a fool, like a soldier, shellshocked, who returns to the battlefield... This room embalms me. Is it possible to be haunted by the living? '
(Repeated: Wed 11.30 am)
as Radio 3
Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A series of six plays based on the novels Of GEORGES simenon withand
4: Maigret in Society translated by ROBERT EGLESFIELD and adapted for radio by EDWARD BRUCE with Produced and directed by GLYN DEARMAN
(Repeated: Friday 8.30 pm)
(Michael Gough is a National Theatre player)
Michael Bond, the writer and creator of Paddington Bear, chooses the records he would take to a desert island, and discusses them with Roy Plomley who devised the programme.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
Penelope. a play for radio by ANTONIA FRASER with Maria Aitken Nigel Davenport and Frederick Jaeger
The beautiful Penelope is alone -her husband Ulick. an explorer, disappeared in South America years before. Penelope is besieged by suitors but. as she has no web. she promises to give one of them an answer when she has finished writing her latest book. And every night, true to tradition, she tears up the chapters she has written. But the suitors are getting impatient - especially as one of them is Penelope's publisher!
Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
(Nigel Davenport is in ' Three Sisters ' at the Cambridge Theatre. London; Maria Aitken is a National Theatre player)
The story of Queen Victoria, In a series of 13 episodes, with 11: The White Queen's Burden by DONALD THOMAS
The Queen to Viceroy Curzon: ' Sir, be kind to my poor Indians.'
DAVID NEAL , DIANA OLSSON
HILDA SCHRODER. MADHAV SHARMA STEPHEN THORNE. PETER WILLIAMS Ballads sung bv CHARLES YOUNG with dennis gomm (piano) and TERRY LYNCH i concertina) Produced and directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
(Shortened version of the programme broadcast in 1974)
A meditation led by REV MICHAEL MAYNE
preceded by Weather