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
to 9.30
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 IAN WALLER.
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 COLIN DORAN
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
STUART SIMON and ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning, page 50; 0 Holy Spirit, Lord of grace (BBC Hymn Book 157); Psalm 139; John 5, vv 16-30 (AV); Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (BBC HB 327)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days. Producer PETER DE ROSA
Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly survey of what Is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Graham Day, Lady Howe Tom Jackson and The Bishop of Liverpool Chairman David Jacobs from Merseyside
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
with Jill Burridge and Peter Windows invites you to work out the identity of our studio guest as we fill in his silhouette, finds out what happens to a patient struck off a doctor's list and asks ' Do we want doctors or medicine-men; politicians or polymaths; democracy or demi-gods - and were there ever giants? '
And JOHN RYE reads from The World of Ukridge by P. G. WODEHOUSE abridged by JOAN yorke 3: First Aid for Dora Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The Elephant by RAINER ALANDER Translated from Swedish by DIANA WEBSTER
' You should consider yourself lucky, Benny lad.... You've got your own house, a wife and children and you'll never go to sea any more. Everything's come true. But just as it's all within reach, some demon comes and spoils it. Shatters everything to pieces.'
Produced and directed by ROBERT COOPER. BBC Manchester
as Radio 3
Presented by Gordon Clough 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 INSTANT SUNSHiNE
Producer HUGH PURCELL
Barry Tuckwell, the horn player, 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)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Governing Dark by WILLIAM FOX
We may work for your father here, as charcoal burners and suchlike, and humping slag to surface Roman roads, but all of us in the forest and up and down the Rother river, we hate the Christian God. All very well you sayin' you care nothing for our British Gods and Goddesses, Gail, but do you care for that Christian God like your family up there at the villa?
It is AD 410 and the last Roman Legions are leaving Britain and the remaining Roman aristocrats to fend for themselves. Music specially composed and directed by DAVID CAIN. Instrumentalists:
KATE WILSON (harp), NICHOLAS MCGEGAN (flute), TERENCE EMERY and ANNE COLLIS (percussion) Produced and directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
Alan Beith , mp Edward Patey and Valdo Pons in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
Evening Prayers conducted by REV HUBERT HOSKINS
preceded by Weather
