A regional view of farming In the week ahead.
Presented from the North by KEN FORD
BBC Manchester
6.40 Prayer for the Day SISTER MARTINA
with Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees 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;
Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CUANEY
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.
Esther Rantzen and Benny Green ; together with their guests in the studio, provide the incentive to face Monday morning once again as they discuss a topical issue or two, interview some of the personalities who will be making the news in the forthcoming week and try to keep their tongues firmlv in their cheeks at least half the time.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
'Is there nowadays any need to heed the old saying " never eat shellfish unless there is an • R ' in the month "? If so, why? why? '
The team winkles out the answers to another selection of your wildlife questions.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DII.YS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 84: All ye who seek for sure relief (BBC HB 289i; Psalm 51: Matthew 26, vv 45-56 (RSV): God of grace and God of glory (BBC HB 3911
A Week of Crime Stories
1: Inspector Ghote and the Wicked Lady
Written and read by H. R. F. Keating
' Lalitha stooped, picked up the feni and downed it in one. "Life saver," she declared. Only to choke, to clutch at her stomach and to be lying dead within two minutes.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
11.50 Announcements
Earning and Saving Edition Presenter Sue Cook including The World of Work With MARGARET KORVING , and your letters,
Roy Plomley's castaway is the original Christopher Robin, Christopher Milne. Show more
Christopher Milne the original Christopher Robin, with Roy Plomley
(Saturday's broadcast)
12.55 Weather and programme news
VHF (except London and SE) Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
(Friday's broadcast)
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Living in Lapland: JUNE KNOX-MAWER talks to MARIE HERBERT about ' The Reindeer People . My Favourite Ingredient ... mustard for JANET WARREN. ..
Private Collections - 3: ARTHUR SWALLOW talks to BARBARA MYERS about his black museum of shoes.
FAITH BROOK reads Tisha (9) by ANNE HOBBS
With ROBERT SPECHT Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Auntie Bel's Garden Path by JILL ROWE
Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00, from bookshops
Some Distant Star A play for radio by DAVID H. GODFREY
{Saturday's broadcast)
The Making of a Marchioness by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY 4: Alec and Hester Osborn
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
'twixt Eleanor SummerHeld 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)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed. In the studio David Seils Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A group of sixth-form students discuss issues and topics with a special guest.
Tonight: Caspar Brooke. Director of the David Owen Centre of Growth Population Studies, Cardiff
Chairman Gerry Monte Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales
in The Streets of Pompeii by HENRY REED
MuSiC by ANTHONY SMITH-MASTERS This classic radio drama, which won the Italia Prize in 1953. evokes a sun-drenched day in the ruins of Pompeii, through which wander tourists, archaeologists and lovers, dimly aware of the brooding terror that overwhelmed the city in AD 79.
With GODFREY KENTON , KATHLEEN HELME , MALCOLM HAYES , HIIDA KRISEMAN , DEBORAH DALLAS , DEREK SEATON and DAVID SPENSER Solo clarinet: SIDNEY FELL Orchestra directed by PATRICK SAVILL
Produced and directed by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
(A shortened repeat of the 1970 production on Radio 3)
( Marius Goring is in The Expert, BBC2 Friday 10.15 pmi (Starting next Monday at 4.35. Story Time: The Taras Report on The Last Days of Pompeii by Alan Lloyd : Chronicle on Pompeii next Sunday evening on BBC2)
Preview: page 19
Rt lion The Lord Mayor of London proposes the toast of Her Majesty's Ministers. The Prime Minister.
Rt Hon James Callaghan. mp, replies.
Scene described by DON MOSEY from Guildhall, London
(Highlights: BBC1 11.0 ptn)
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The Man in the Queue (11)
preceded by Weather
