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 VICTOR KNIGHT
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 JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
TOM READ and STUART SIMON
New Every Morning, page 58; Firmly I believe and truly (BBC Hymn Book 168): Canticle 1, 1-15; John 12, vv 20-36 (AV); My soul, praise the Lord! (BBC HB 463)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days. Producer MADEAU STEWART
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
Russell Braddon
Baroness Phillips, Antony Jay and The Bishop of Bristol Chairman David Jacobs from Avon
with Anne Gregg and Norman Tozer takes a couple who are looking for furniture round the Ideal Home Exhibition; gives some time-saving tips to weekend gardeners; and looks at the news coverage in the European papers. And STEPHEN MURRAY reads another story by URSULA LE GUIN
The Word of Unbinding Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Put an Egg in your Tank
An extravagant daydream by DEREK RABY with Timothy Bateson and Margot Boyd
The fantasy life of an every-day commuter.
Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES (Rptd: Wed, 11.30 am)
as Radio 3
Presented by Gordon Clough
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 PETER SKELLERN and JEREMY NICHOLAS Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
The actor, James Bolam, 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)
How are Things in Portnacrenan? by BRUCE STEWART , with Kerry Francis as Tom Nairn and Elizabeth Bell as Nancy Bellenden
NAIRN: My name's Nairn. Tom Nairn. My father was Andrew Nairn. Some of you might have known him. maybe. He used to be a fisherman here in Portnacrenan. Until he was drowned on 7 November 1944.
FERGUS: Andrew Nairn 's lad. The angel of the Lord. The bright angel ... sent to the place of weeping ...
Produced and directed by LIANE AUKIN (Rptd: Mon 3.5 pm)
Brian Redhead and his guests in conversation on a topical theme
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
Evening prayers led tonight by ANGELA TILBY
preceded by Weather
