A regional view of farming in the week ahead presented from the North by KEN FORD
BBC Manchester
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV VERNON SPROXTON
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees 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, Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
rummages through the Sound Archives and comes out none the wiser.
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
Hearing an anguished twitter in the garden, I dashed out to see a pigeon carrying away a small bird in its claws. Does the brother of the symbol of peace really kill other birds? The team answers another selection of your wildlife questions.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 13; Thy mercy, Lord, is in the heavens (BBC HB 482); Psalm 66. vv 1-11; John 9, vv 25-41 (av); God is love: let heaven adore him (BBC HB 7)
The Empty House by ALMEY ST JOHN ADCOCK Read by Patricia Hayes
' That woman'll be the death of me. The moment you take your eyes off her she goes traipsing across the lane to that Messed old cottage of hers.' 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 prima ballerina Merle Park. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Robert Williams
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Consumer Notes: with NORMAN
TOZER Ernest Hemingway with Love and Candour: his widow MARY WELSH HEMINGWAY , talks about the way it was.
You're Welcome: VALERIE BETH ELL reports on holiday places for disabled children.
Royal Highness by THOMAS MANN translated by A. CECIL CURTIS revised by CONSTANCE MCNAB abridged by JOHN CARROLL and GABRIEL WOOLF
Read by Gabriel Woolf
First of ten instalments
Does your Royal Highness know who is coming to stay at the Spa Hotel for six or eight weekst The great Samuel N. Spoelmann from Americal And he has a daughter ...
(Music: Komzak's Bad'ner Mad In waltz)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Julia and the Empty Tub by MARGARET AITKEN
Airs Above the Ground
Raffles by E. w. HORNUNG (6)
Presented by Robert Williams
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
The first of ten discussion programmes, each of which will have both a different theme and speakers. Today the guests are Barbara Cartland
Elaine Morgan and Jean Rook Presiding Irene Thomas
Theme: Who is the better halff
Producer MADEAU STEWART
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
A new series in which Edward Greenfield explores the art and personality of some of the world's greatest musicians. The first programme features the violinist who has set himself apart, even in a generation of virtuosos - Jascha Heifetz ,
by Shirley Gee
with Rosemary Leach as Ada Molesbridge, Carole Boyd as Harriet Carmichael, and Katherine Hughes as Flora
ADA: When it comes to whose child, Flora might decide. Who she cleaves to. Whose bed she chooses in the middle of the night. Who she loves.
HARRIET: Don't be ludicrous. She's my daughter, my flesh and blood. She belongs to me.
ADA: Flesh and blood is one thing. But belongs. Slippers, candlesticks, necklaces, they belong. Ask her who she chooses. Go on, wake her, ask her. We're all people, aren't we. All human beings... Not mistress and servant, you said. Let her choose.
A nightly review of bo,oks, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter P. J. Kavanagh Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Lucky Jim by KINGSLEY AMIS abridged in 12 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Martin Jarvis (1)
A classic comic novel on academic life, Lucky Jim features the fortunes, or rather misfortunes, of one Jim Dixon , a man of many faces, most of which don't fit his surroundings - the history department of a provincial university. Producer PAT MCLOUGHLIN
preceded by Weather
