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 ian WALLER ,
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
JOHN TUSA 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 TOM READ
New Every Morning, page 118: My God, how wonderful thou art (BBC Hymn Book 12); Psalm 118, vv 13-24; John 8, vv 37-45 (AV); Fight the good fight (BBC HB 302)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly survey of what Is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
'as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion byNorman St John-Stevas , MP
Lord Willis .Lord Byers and Mary Warnock
Chairman David Jacobs from Hertfordshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Lord Willis is Man of Action: R3 2.25 pm).
with Anne Gregg and Peter Windows asks
• What's so special about being ordinary? ' looks at two collectors of ordinary lives - Clive Murphy , who will be in the studio, and Henry Mayhew who recorded them in the 19th century - his Statement of a Photographic Man will be read by Martin Jarvis.
We fill in the features of another guest silhouette and she will join in discussing with Dr Anthony Clare the reasons why we want to be thought normal -but hate being described as average. And an ordinary listener is bound to be the winner of our limerick competition.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Some people get comfort from clairvoyants when their dear ones have passed over. Others get something more substantial.
(Repeated: Wednesday 11.30 am)
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
Egon Ronay, the food and wine expert, 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)
Christopher Cazenove, Peter Sallis and Carole Boyd
The novel by Jean Stubbs adapted for radio by Betty Davies
In the year 1901 Nicholas Carradine is a well-known artist - rich, successful and unhappy. A chance discovery in the attic uncovers a 20-year-old mystery and as Carradine, with the help of Inspector Lintott, pieces together the puzzle he finds out more and more about his past, and about himself. Finally, deeply shaken, he has to abandon illusion and come face to face with the truth.
(Rptd: Mon 3.5pm)
9.58 Weather
Peter Jay, Timothy Raison, MP and Maurice Temple-Smith in conversation with Brian Redhead
BBC Manchester
Evening prayers conducted by FR PATRICK MCENROE
preceded by Weather