A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV VERNON SPROXTON
Brian Redhead in Manchester Sylvia Home 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; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English regions: see column 5
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
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
Have you ever heard of a Chinese cricket match? It's not played with bat and ball, but (logically enough) with crickets! Do you know why a gorilla should be pleased when its hair turns grey? Would you know what to do with a cramp-nut?
If you answer ' no ' to any or all of these questions, you should obviously join the Wildlife team for this morning's programme ...
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 97; Almighty God , thy word is cast (BBC HB 188); Psalm 33, vv 1-12; John 7, vv 14-24 (AV); 0 Jesus I have promised (BBC HB 360)
The Mouse by ROGER BOOTH Read by Sheila Mitchell
'"Where were you? "... Yes. St Theresa had warned her. Eileen hoped that Mark wouldn't refer to the incident. That might lead to other questioning ....
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 world-champion skater John Curry. Show more
12.55 mediumwaveonly
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
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Introduced by Sue MacGregoi Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters
Ladies in Retirement - 2: MAYNAH lewis , who became a writer when she had to give up her music.
Those Far Away Places: JOHN ARDAGH has been visiting Bangkok - ' City of the Angels Night Without Stars by WINSTON GRAHAM abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE Read by SIMON PREBBLE (Final instalment)
(Music: Bliss's Mêlée fantasque) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Don't Pass Polly by KATHLEEN RAMSAY
Three Days of Frost by R. D. WINGFIELD
Everest the Hard Way by CHRIS BONINGTON
6: Problems at Camp 5
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team
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 ROGER '
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Twenty-five Years of The Archers, 60p, from bookshops
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed. In the studio Erik de Mauny
JB by ARCHIBALD MACLEISII
A radio adaptation by the author of his 1959 Pulitzer prize-winning play which retells the story of Job in contemporary terms.
With Robert Lansing
Nancy Marchand, Keene Curtis and Donald Davis
Technical operation:
TOM VOEGELI Music composed by HERB PILHOFER
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN for Earplay, the radio drama production centre for American public radio.
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter P. J. Kavanagh Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
A report on this week's General Synod of the Church of England by Gerald Priestland , the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent...
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