Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
6.40 Prayer for the Day ROBERT RIETTY
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 and Weather; Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
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Gardening - Lawns and Seeds Does your garden lawn look like the Slough of Despond at the end of every winter? Does it produce the finest crop of dandelions in your neighbourhood every summer? Are you seduced by gardening catalogues into buying the wrong kinds of seeds for your garden - or do you simply go by the names of the produce you buy in the shops? Bill Sowerbutts and Arthur Billitt will be in the studio with hints for lovelier lawns after the long wet spell and advice on the best seeds for your needs.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the . Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 118; We come unto our fathers' God (BBC HB 255); Psalm 46; John 16, vv 22-33 (AV); Soldiers, who are Christ's below (BBC HB 337)
The Green Patch by w. FROOM Read by Julia Lang
' An absurd desire to dance down the supermarket aisles took hold of her. She managed to restrain it, and tried to concentrate on the goods on display ... Suddenly she saw something by the door - strategically displayed of course, to catch the eyes of children.'
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 5: South of England I DENNIS BIRD (Sussex), civil servant
BETTY MORRIS (Sussex), writer
STEPHEN MIDDLETON (Berkshire), schoolteacher
WARWICK EDWARDS (Hampshire), retired schoolmaster
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
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Women in Brazil: VALERIE BETHELL looks at the way their lives are changing.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your Letters.
Women and the Law: TESS GILL with recent developments. The Perfect Gentleman (4)
Story: Pottle Pig and the New Baby's Pram by NANCY NORTHCOTE
7: Victims
Peter Hobday introduces a two-hour programme of news, explanation and comment. With him in the studio will be economist Adrian Ham , former Special Assistant to the Chancellor; James Mor rell, Director of the Henley Centre for Forecasting; and tax experts Roger White , partner at Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company; and Mavis Moul lin, Head of the CBI's Taxation Division.
From the newsroom will come an up-to-the-minute news service covering the Chancellor's proposals in- detail and BBC Correspondents will report on Trade Union, Industrial, Political and Local Government reaction.
Studio production CHARLES CARLSEN
Producers BRIAN HALE and MARK ROGERSON
Editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY
A Financial World Tonight production with Radio News
5.50
Budget Special continues
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)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed. In the studio Erik de Mauny
Part 1 as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions Presenter Angela Huth
1.59 Weather
10.10*
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon
Denis Healey , mp, for the Government
10.20* Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Joseph and the Goths by CATHERINE HEATH
Read by MADI HEDD (10)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
