A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
Presented from Scotland by ARTHUR ANDERSON BBC Scotland
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 and 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
reflects on life in and out of the Sound Archives.
(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
A ten-year-old listener asks: ' Why doesn't a spider get stuck in his own web? '
This is just one of the sticky questions tackled by the team in another questions session. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM. p 84; Lord. as to thy dear Cross we flee (BBC HB 293i; Psalm 142; Ecclesiasticus 38. vv 1-14 (rsv); Give me the wings of faith to rise (BBC HB 229)
New Every Morning. £1.25 i hardback), 50p (paperback), from bookshops
The Quick and the Dead by BARBARA HAYNES
Read by Ysanne Churchman
' It wasn't bells, or knocking, that I heard as I sat there - with my ears out on stalks! ... It was music . , . softly at first, then growing louder ... until the whole room seemed to vibrate with the sound of guitars and the steady beat of drums and cymbals. '
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as 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 writer Anthony Powell. Show more
The writer. Anthony Powell
Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Answer and Comment.
What, No Casting Couch?: Maude Spector, one of the film industry's top casting directors, talks to Bernard Jackson about her work.
Ysanne Churchman reads "A Touch of Mistletoe" by BARBARA COMYNS (6)
Story. Kate's Windy Morning by RAINE BAMRAH
The Holy Experiment by WILLIAM FOX
Black as He's Painted by NGAIO MARSH abridged for radio in ten parts by LOUIS BATTYE
Read by David Mahlowe 1: Mr Whtpplestone
'"Everyone is delighted about the forthcoming visit, Ambassador," Mr Whipplestone said, " An auspicious occasion." "As you say. Immensely significant." The Ambassador slightly reduced the volume of his superb voice. " Not," he said, " without its anxieties however. As you know, our great President does not welcome" - he indicated the bodyguard - " that sort of attention. He is to stay with us. The responsibility Producer TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
S.S5 Weather, programme news
'twixt
Eleanor SummerfieU 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
Lady Michaela Lindsay Is better known as Michaela of the Armand and Michaela Denis wildlife television films.
I learnt to read when I was two-and-a-half years old. I was always teacher's pet and the leader of the girls.'
MICHAELA now lives alone in Nairobi with four dogs. a parrot and five cats ...
' I hate people to kill animals, I am a vegetarian. Armand wasn't. I am. Any kind of cruelty to animats or people to me is a terrible crime.' Producer MICK RHODES BBC Bristol
As a tribute to Dame Sybil
Thorndike. CH, who died in June aged 93, we are re-broadcasting some of her most outstanding radio performances, 3: The Sacred Flame by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM adapted for radio by PETER WATTS starring Sybil Thorndike with Jill Balcon and Carleton Hobbs
Produced and directed by GRAHAM GAULD
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Tony Palmer Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNC
And So - Victoria by VAUGHAN WILKINS abridged in 15 parts by MADGE HART
Book 2: The Reckoning
Read by GARY WATSON (6) Producer JOHN CARDY
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Book. How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
preceded by Weather
