Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
6.40 Prayer for the Day RT REV ROBERT EAMES , Bishop of Derry
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
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Collecting and Antiques
Is it tat or is it a treasure? How do you tell? Is it all subjective or are there absolutes? How old is antique - and does age alone make it valuable? What will tomorrow's heirlooms be? And how can you care for the things handed down to you? Ask our experts about your favourite flowerpot or four-poster - John Bly. FRSA, who writes about silver and furniture, and David Battle. whose auction room specialises in the 19th and 20th centuries.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
NEM, p 1; 0 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (BBC HB 267); Psalm 63; John 8, vv 46-59 (AV); 0 God of Bethel, by whose hand (BBC HB 495)
Something on the Boil by FRANK HEADLAND
Read by Robert Rictty
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 Final
Macclesfield County High School for Girls 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
Down Lambeth Way: a revival of some of the best of Old London.
2.0-2.2 News
The Blacklist: MARTIN RITT , director of The Front, looks back on McCarthyism.
Reading Your Letters
A Day Out in Winter: PHIL SMITH down among the tripe and sarsaparilla stalls of Blackburn market.
Life Among the Savages (6)
Story: On the Bus by MARY WHITE
A dramatic chronicle of the English Crown through 200 years of its history by the Elizabethan playwrights Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their contemporaries adapted in 26 episodes by Martin Jenkins
Music for the series by Christopher Whelen
In which the Queen takes a lover and the King is in mortal danger.
John Hurt as Edward II with Sarah Badel, John Shrapnel, Cyril Luckham and Robert Eddison.
The story is told by Richard Burton
Produced and directed by Gerry Jones
(Robert Eddison is a National Theatre player)
For free booklet send large SAE to Vivat Rex, [address removed]
Raffles (2)
Presented by Brian Widlake
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
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Peter Hobday
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
Presenter Edwin Mullins
John Tusa reporting
Cranford (12)
preceded by Weather
