A regional view of farming in the week ahead, presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER. Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV ALEC GILMORE
with Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.e 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*
Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column 5
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
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
Do moles climb up walls? Indeed they do - and today you can hear more accounts of their mountaineering skill, plus hints of how to attract frogs to your garden pond, more news of the mysterious crampnut, and, of course, the wildlife sound competition.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 34: Blest be the everlasting God (BBC HB 486); Psalm 57; John 11, vv 14-32 (AV); Jesus is this dark world's light (BBC HB 519)
A Picture on the Wall by JOHN NOTLEY
Read by Garard Green
' All around me were these wives, packing up to go before another brigade moved in. They had begun to live with the fact that they would not see their husbands again for the duration ... And here was I, just turned 21 and in the pink of condition ... '
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
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 designer Oliver Ford. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Travelling On - 1: BRENDA KIDMAN joins a chiropody van, keeping the foot-sore mobile.
Excuse me, but I think my big end is about to drop off: ANNE SUTER on the problems of getting a car repaired abroad. Entertainment Round-Up: GORDON GOW reporting. Royal Highness (0) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Turnip Soup
Adapted by BIDDY BAXTER
Absurd Person Singular
Sense and Sensibility by JANE AUSTEN
Abridged in ten parts by EVANGELINE BANKS
Read by Madeleine Cannon (1) Elinor and her sister Marianne can be said to embody the qualities represented by the title, although Elinor is not without sensibility and Marianne not devoid of sense. The two young girls, protected only by their widowed mother and a small private income, are involved in the delicate jostling for partners, property and power which is a principal concern of Jan« Austen's ' society '.
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE BBC Birmingham
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
The second, of ten discussion programmes. Today the guests are
Joan Bakewell Olga Franklin and Peggy Makins
Presiding Irene Thomas Theme: Advertising
Producer MADEAU STEWART
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discused and analysed. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Featuring Mstlslav Rostropo vich, the Russian cellist, in the second of a series in which Edward Greenfield explores the art and personalities of some of the world's great musieianSi gramophone records
Blow Your House In
A comedy by JENNIFER PHILLIPS With and ' Double fronted detached. Double carriageway. Double garage. Double front doors to imposing ent. hall. Double staircase. Double aspect.: Double glazing ... Double .. ? double ... double ..." says Mr Hassell the estate agent. He links together a chain of couples and events in the frantic buying and selling of homes.
Produced and directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Lucky Jim by KINGSLEY AMIS
Read by MARTIN JARVIS (6)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
