Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day HILDA FLINT
with Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
At 7.0 and 8.9 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*
English Regions: see column I
How Equal?
How does the sex discrimination legislation affect social security? How can I get equal pay when there's no man doing exactly the same job as mine? I couldn't take out a hire-purchase agreement without my husband as guarantor - is this legal? I applied for a job and I suspect that I didn't get it because I'm a woman - what can I do? Can a man join the Women's Institute? Why aren't the tax laws equal? Are schools allowed to discriminate in the subjects taught to girls and boys?
Put your questions to Lady Howe, Deputy Chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission. and Tess Gill, Chair-woman of the National Council for Civil Liberties.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor
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 13; 0 worship the king, all glorious above (BBC HB
471): Psalm 116; Isaiah 54. vv
11-17 (AV); Come, ye people, rise and sing (BBC HB 270)
Forgotten Detail by DENYS VAL BAKER
Read by Brian Hewlett
' He knew exactly what time the special train would arrive at the station, how many minutes would be spent in receiving the new ambassador, even the last conventional courtesies that must be exchanged before the ambassador bent forward to enter the waiting car.... it was his job to know. He was a trained assassin ......
Home and Family Edition Presenter Mart Prichard with your letters
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Questionmasters: Tim Gudgin and Bob Holness
Wallace High School, Lisburn v St MacNissi's College, Carnlough
(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
Story: The Spider's Tree by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD
by J. B. PRIESTLEY Part 9
A Kiss Before Dying by IRA LEVIN
Read by WILLIAM ROBERTS 7: Assassination
The news magazine: presented by Brian Widlake with PM's reporting team
5.51 FinancialReport
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge
Anne Scott - James and Denis Norden
In the Chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
An oratorio
Libretto selected by CHARLES JENNENS edited by HAROLD WATKINS SHAW direct from the Town Hall, Birmingham Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Parts 2 and 3 as Radio 3
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
