Presented from East Anglia by DAVID RICHARDSON
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
BBC Birmingham
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV VERNON SPROXTON
Patricia Hodgson in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers; at 7.2$* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column 5
rummages through the Sound Archives and comes out none the wiser. (Rptd: Tues 11.45 am)
A live and lively talk show with guests for whom the coming week promises to be a special one. The team of regulars helping to find antidotes to the Monday morning blues includes Esther Rantzen , Bernard Falk , Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Stoats and ermine coats, lines of gulls flying across the sunset, your letters, and the wildlife mystery sound competition, are among the topics in this magazine edition.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 58; Father of heaven, whose love profound (BBC HB 290); Canticle 2; John 5, vv 31-47 (AV); Father most holy, merciful and loving (BBC HB 167). Music: BBC SINGERS
But What About Chicky-Boy? by PATRICIA MASON
Read by Denise Bryer
' I'd never wished she was dead. I'd just wished she wasn't there, all worked up in the kitchen....'
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 French horn player Barry Tuckwell. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Back to the Beginning: EVELYN ROSE re-examines basic cooking techniques - 1: frying. Reading Your Letters.
Entertainment Round-Up: GORDON gow reporting. SIMON PREBBLE reads Night Without Stars by WINSTON GRAHAM (6) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Two Parties by JILL ROWE
The Governing Dark by WILLIAM FOX
Everest the Hard Way by CHRIS BONINGTON
Adapted for radio in ten parts and narrated by David Mahlowe Reader GEOFFREY WHEELER
When Chris Bonington and his team set out in 1975 to climb Everest by the South West Face, nobody thought much of their chances. Five previous expeditions had failed but Bonington put four men on the summit. Everest the Hard Way is the compelling and often hair-raising story he wrote about their triumph.
1: The Approach March Producer HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
Presented by Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
Conceived, nurtured and done by: Tim Brooke-Taylor
Barry Cryer and John Junkin with the music (?) of The Denis King Trio
Written by BARRY CRYER and JOHN JUNKIN
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS
BBC Manchester (B'cast on R2)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed. In the studio Kathryn Davies Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
How would you get help for injured companions across a flooded river? Could you pull a sledge out of a crevasse? Or, indeed, could you survive in your own home if things went wrong?
Some of the challenges which the competing teams may have to tackle in this survival quiz. Picking up the challenge this week are Milkmen v Postmen. Guest explorer Richard Snail -ham puts real-life. dilemmas to the teams. Other questions are set by DENNIS LEVER. Chris Brasher is in the Chair.
Programme devised and produced by SUSAN SNAILUM with PAT TAYLOR
(Revised repeat: Wed 11.5 am)
The Candidates by BERNARD SHRIMSLEY
Dramatised for radio by WILLIAM ABNEY , with and The Member of Parliament for Norton, a safe Labour Constituency. has died. Who will the local party choose as a candidate to replace him?
Produced and directed by HARRY CATLIN
Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
Cranford by MRS CASKELL
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
