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.
Introduced by KEN FORD BBC Manchester
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
NIGEL REES invites journalists to confront their readers and the people they have written about in the press this week. Narrator PIERS BURTON-PAGE Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
STUART SIMON and ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning, page 9; 0 come let us sing to the Lord (BBC HB 465); Psalm 8; John 9, vv 13-25 (Av); Praise, 0 praise our God and King (BBC HB 441)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days. Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Sir Richard Marsh Lady Antonia Fraser
Professor Bernard Williams and Patricia Hewitt
Chairman David Jacobs from Bedford
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
Introduced by Anne Gregg and Peter Windows considers some new attitudes to marriage and marriage problems; scans the European papers; and PETER BRYANT reads A Lift in the Rain by ROSEMARY TIMPERLET Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Zeppi's Machine by SAM SELVON with Tommy Eytle and Nadia Cattouse
Zeppi - the great Zeppl - was a powerful obeah man in Trinidad, and the villagers of Tacarigua brought him all their problems. Bit by bit the modern world was changing their way of life - and one day Zeppi found that mechanisation was putting him out of business! But he was a resourceful old rogue, and he dealt with the situation in his own way.
Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
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 IAN R. GARDHOUSE
Merle Park, the prima ballerina, chooses the records she would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
Records introduced by Richard Baker
Airs Above the Ground adapted by BARRY CAMPBELL from the novel by MARY STEWART By pure chance Vanessa March discovers that her husband is not in Stockholm as she'd imagined but in Vienna and with a blonde! Her search for him leads her through a dangerous and exciting series of adventures set in the colourful world of the circus and the famous Spanish Riding School.
Produced and directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
A. S. Byatt
Michael Schmidt and Jon Silkin in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
A meditation in words and music led by REV LESLIE MITCHELL BBC Manchester
preceded by Weather
