Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN MATTHEW
Sylvia Home in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
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*
Greenhouse Gardening
With the cost of fresh produce steadily rising, a greenhouse is becoming an essential in most gardeners' lives. But what kind of greenhouse, and how can you make the most profitable use of it? What should be your basic outlay for the average greenhouse? What kind of heating is most economical? Bill Sowerbutts and Arthur Billett , both greenhouse gardeners of wide experience, will be in the studio to answer your questions with Jill Burridge in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 102; Dear Shepherd of thy people (BBC HB 259); Psalm 100; John 7, v 14 and vv 25-36 (AV); How brightly beams the morning star! (BBC HB141)
I Wish I'd Put the Money on a Horse by MURIEL HOWARD-WILLIAMS Read by Marjorie Westbury
A small man with weasel eyes beckoned me towards a chair. I see your trouble, but we'll soon fix that. Now then, shoes off and "ups-a-daisy" onto the couch.'
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited: Steyning in Sussex
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
mediumwaveonly
Home and Family Edition Presenter Mari Prichard with your letters
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Questionmasters:
Tim Gudgin and Bob Holness Semi-Final (2)
Wallace High School, Stirling v Thomas Magnus School, Newark-on-Trent
Questions set by roy smith Producer JOHN bridges
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Who Said That? IRENE THOMAS puts the questions; ANNE scott-JAMES and BENNY GREEN Supply the answers.
2.0-2.2 News
The Paris Embassy - The Inside Story: Lady Gladwyn wife of the former British Ambassador, talks to LYN MACDONALD.
Day Out in Winter-1: ANDY PRICE visits Brookwood Cemetry in Surrey.
Sewing Club: JILL BURRIDGE with news, views and information for the home needlewoman. Life Among the Savages by SHIRLEY JACKSON abridged by ROBERT GLADWELL Read by Anne Murray
First of nine instalments
' I remember the morning the landlord called. Our son Laurie was three and a half, our daughter Jannie was six months. The landlord said of course we were aware our lease was up? I said, well, no. That was too bad, he said. because the apartment had been rented to someone else .- . , ' (Music: Herrmann's , Welles Raises Kane ')
Story: Rabbit Uses His Legs by VEKA RUSHlBROOKE
1: The King's Favourite
MICHAEL BARRATT invites
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
Questions, on postcards please, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX.
Producer KENNETH FORD
by Chris Bonington
Adapted and narrated by David Mahlowe
The news magazine: presented by Brian Widlake with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A musical quiz devised by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race
(BBC Birmingham)
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Peter Hobday
Part 1 as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
' Phil Tanner was the perfect example of an old separate Gower. He only seemed eccentric because he had survived, intact, unchanged - with all his old-fashioned happy country serenity - into the mad world of today.'
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas recalls this amiable Welsh folk singer.
Presenter Angela Huth
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.
Cranford by MRS GASKELL Read by JILL BALCON (7)
preceded by Weather