Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
6.50
Yours Faithfully: a note from GERALD PRIESTLAND, ReligiOUS Affairs Correspondent.
VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Today's listening; weather
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Yours Faithfully
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
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with DAVID
WOOD.
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 LAURIE MACMILLAN Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
STUART SIMON and ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning, page 54; God of eternity, Lord of the ages (BBC Hymn Book 390); Psalm 126; Hebrews 13, vv 1-8 (rsv); He wants not friends that hath thy love (BBC HB 245)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days. Producer MICHAEL MURRAY
Presented by Geoff Watts
A weekly survey of what la 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 spontaneous discussion by Baroness Robson Melvyn Bragg
Michael Clayton and Phillip Whitehead. mp Chairman David Jacobs from Leicestershire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
An hour's miscellany of chat, fact and fiction with Jill Burridge and Peter Windows And John Rye reads from "The World of Ukridge" by P. G. Wodehouse abridged by Joan Yorke
1: Ukridge's Dog College
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The Bag by LEE TORRANCE with John Hollis as Fred Baggott
JOHN: Why shouldn't I tell him?
SUSAN: You can't. You just can't. He thinks the world of you.
JOHN: Why shouldn't I tell him right out - you bore me stiff?
Produced and directed by JOHN CARDY
as Radio 3
AU the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
as he encourages his guests to speak lightly, perhaps with illumination, about some of the week's news they have made or observed.
Musical interludes by PETER SKELLERN
Producer HUGH PURCELL
Michael Holroyd, the biographer, 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)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Brighton Trade by T. D. WEBSTER
'Nothing's changed, has it, Edgar? ... I thought.... since we started seeing each other again things were getting better.... But it's worse than when you were in the police .' ..At least then you could say it was the job you were paid to do ... But it isn't now ... You don't have to prove yourself to the station ... or me ... or anybody ... It doesn't matter! '
Producer ROGER PINE
Director MICHAEL ROLFE BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
John Cole
Patricia Hodgson and Lewis Minkin in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
A Meditation led by REV JOHN STUART ROBERTS BBC Wales
preceded by Weather