A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
Presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN SMITH
Brian Redhead in Manchester and John Timpson in London 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, Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p from bookshops English Regions: see column 5
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11,45 am)
The programme that takes its own particular look at some of the issues and personalities of the forthcoming week.
The studio guests join Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Robinson. Benny Green and who knows who else for 55 minutes of interviews, discussion and mild irreverence.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
Two days ago I noticed a loud tapping sound in the garden. It proved to be made by a female blackbird cracking open a snail, but carefully watched by a fledgling. Was the young blackbird being given a lesson, do you thinkr The team, too, has some problems to crack in this morning's programme.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 38; 0 Lord our God, arise! (BBC HB 25): Psalm 24; Matthew 16, vv 13-23 (Rsv); Come, ye faithful, raise the anthem (BBC HB 123)
New Every Morning, £1.25 (hardback), 50p (paperback), from bookshops
Blind by DOUGLAS BOYD Read by David Davis
' " A world in which you began to miss the things you sought and to blunder into the things you wished to avoid," said the stranger ..." It seemed so," said Matthew. " But I have imagination - a priceless gift to one who is blind ... " Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details an Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Earning and Saving Edition Presenter Sue Cook including The World of Work With MARGARET KORVING , and your letters.
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alan Bates. Show more
Alan Bates, the actor
12.55 Weather and programme news; VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Story: A Girl Called Andrew by ARMOREL KAY WALLING
Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00, from bookshops
Arsenic and Old Lace the celebrated comedy by JOSEPH KESSELRING
Intimate Relations by JACQUIE DURRELL adapted for radio in five parts by BERTHA LONSDALE Read by Ann Aris 1: Big-Footed Bird
Since Jacquie Durrell abandoned her promising career as an opera singer to share her life with Gerald and a host of assorted animals, she has found herself in many curious places in pursuit of still stranger beasts, In her book, she tells something of her travels and of exotic creatures such as Eggbert, the Crested Screamer, Claudius, the Tapir, and Whiskers, the Emperor Tamarin. Producer HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting teas Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
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Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and David Nixon Tim Rice
Tune twisters from STEVE RACE In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Twenty-Five Years of The Archers, 60p, from bookshops
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed. In the studio David Sells Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Until recently, water was something most people hardly noticed. But this year, Pat Lucas 's job has taken on a new topicality. She is a professional finder of water - the good old-fashioned water-diviner; but there is nothing old-fashioned about Pat Lucas herself. She feels just the same obligation to her clients as an architect or doctor might do -and she still uses the traditional hazel twig for her dowsing. Today's programme accompanies Pat Lucas on one of her professional engagements to see how, in this year of the drought, an expert can still find water. Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
A Fine Country by ELIZABETH TROOP adapted by the author from her novel of the same title and 'Interesting, this identification with a woman called Rosa Luxemburg - never heard of her.'
' You won't remain in ignorance of lier long, with Mrs Cass around. German I think - First World War-revolutionary. Knew Lenin. Got hit over the head and thrown in a canal in some riot. What all that has to do with our Mrs Cass. the Lord only knows.'
Sylvia Cass. more than just an ironic study in middle-class neurosis. ' flies over the cuckoo's nest at her hospital.
Produced and directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Presenter Paul Vaughan Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
by Vaughan Wilkins, abridged in 15 parts by Madge Hart
Read by Gary Watson
1. Christopher Harnish grows up, learns the secret of his birth and parentage, falls in love, and settles accounts with old enemies as the Hanoverian kings disappear into history and the Victorian age is born.
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