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 VICTOR
KNIGHT
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES looks at an aspect of newspaper coverage this week.
Narrator PIERS BURTON-PAGE Producers STUART SIMON
TOM READ and BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning, page 110; Beloved, let us love: for love is of God (BBC Hymn Book 373); Psalm 138; John 16, vv 1-11 (av); O dear and heavenly city (BBC HB 251)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days. Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
Presented by Geoff Watts
A weekly 'survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producer THELMA RUMSEY
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Ian Mikardo , up
Rt Hon Edward du Cann , MP The Dean of Guildford and Diana Dors
Chairman David Jacobs from Hampshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
with Jill Burridge and Norman Tozer takes a rose-coloured trip to the romantic halls of Nostalgia with the help of MERLIN MIN-SHALL ,KENNETH LOVELAND and ANTONY MIALL who sing the songs of Pooh; JOHN ARDAGH takes a look at the week's press in Europe.
And FAITH BROOK reads A Natural Death by CELIA DALE
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
In Pursuit of the Barracuda A comedy for radio by DAVID WHEELER
Stick-in-the-mud civil servant William is persuaded by his flash friend Tom to forsake the routine life for the glamour of the Cayman Islands, a luxurious existence and big-game fishing: pursuing the barracuda ...
Produced and directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
as Radio 3
All the day's current affairs, news and comment, presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team 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 PETER SKELLERN and JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
Actress Mary Martin 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
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Watching Eye by ROBERT FURNIVAL
'I'm going to use this incident to test every link in the chain of security precautions here. These scientists have superb minds. They're far too valuable to be left to their own devices. The physical location is easy - we just probe and probe until we find the leak and then bung it up. But it's in their minds where the real insecurity lies - and that's where we've got to penetrate.'
Produced and directed by TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester
Lord Crowther-Hunt Tony Eccles and Frederick Ridley in conversation with Brian Redhead Producer
CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
Evening Prayers conducted by FR JAMES SKELLY
BBC Northern Ireland
preceded by Weather
