Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
6.40 Prayer for the Day JOSIE SMITH
Michael Cooke 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
Sleep
Sleep is something we tend to take for granted until we find we can't, and then we worry. Why do we sleep at all, and how much do we really need? Is it possible to have too much and can we train ourselves to need less? Is sleep before midnight more valuable than after? Why do we sometimes wake feeling tired? Are catnaps useful? Do we all dream and what are dreams for? Are there certain cures for insomnia? Some of the questions you might like to put to Dr Ian Oswald of the Sleep Research Laboratory at Edinburgh University.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 a.m Review: page 74
nem, p 93; 0 dearest Lord, by all adored (BBC HB 266); Psalm 11; John 14, vv 22-31 (AV); 0 thou not made (BBC HB 180)
Royal Precedent by JOHN GLOAG
Read by Richard Hurndall
' It wasn't the sort of thing that happened often in England; not in those days, though it could and sometimes did happen to visiting foreigners. and it was rubbed into all of us young chaps that foreigners often brought trouble.
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Tutbury in Staffordshire Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
Home and Family Edition Presenter Mari Prichard with your letters
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 4: Home Counties II
MARGARET ASKEW (Kent), writer; FREDERICK BRYAN-BROWN (Herts), schoolmaster; PAMELA MORGAN (Bucks); ALEX SCOTT (Herts), engineering buyer
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN , who With IAN GILLIES , sets the questions.
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 A Host of Golden Daffodils: HELEN PALMER has visited Dove Cottage, one-time home of William Wordsworth.
2.0-2.2 News
Playing the Pans: nick HUGHES reports on the upsurge of steel band music in our schools. Reading Your Letters.
My Arms Wanted to Hold Something: CAROLINE BORRETT talks about the kind of understanding the parents of a still-born baby need.
GORDONGARDNERreads A Quiet Life (7)
Story: The Bad-Tempered Little Bridge by JUDITH DRAZIN
6: King of Snow
visits Staffordshire where members of the Mid-Staffordshire Horticultural Society put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
The Diary of Anne Frank (2)
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news, 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 Erik de Mauny
Sir John Betjeman talks to PAUL VAUGHAN about one of his favourite books, The Diary of a Nobody by GEORGE and WEEDON GROSSMITH.
A Kaleidoscope production
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
Presenter Michael Oliver
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Joseph and the Goths (5)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
