A regional view of farming in the week ahead presented from Scotland by ARTHUR ANDERSON BBC Scotland
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV TIMOTHY RAPHAEL
with Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, Including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
reflects on life in and out of the Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
A live and lively talk show with guests for whom the coming week promises to be a special one.
The team of regulars helping to find antidotes to the Monday morning blues includes
Bernard Falk , Fritz Spiegl and Mavis Nicholson
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
Vince Hill on Red Cross work in Britain,
What sound does a cuckoo make? Well, ' cuckoo ' of course but that's not all: this morning you can hear no less than five different sounds made by cuckoos. There will also be ideas of what to look for in the countryside this spring, a spot of ornithological sleuthing and, of course, our wildlife competition.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 106; Lord, who throughout these forty days (BBC HB 83): Psalm 121; John 18, vv 25-38 (AV); 0 crucified Redeemer (BBC HB 85)
Six talks for Holy Week by Rev Richard Holloway, Rector of Old St Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church, Edinburgh.
1: A Claim of Cosmic Signifiesance. BBC Scotland
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
Earning and Saving Edition Presenter George Luce including the World of Work With MARGARET KORVING and answers to your finance queries from TOM TICKELL.
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is military historian Brigadier Peter Young. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Robert Williams
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Tip-Top to Tip-Toe: shape up for spring with the help of ESTHER FAIRFAX and a kitchen chair.
Entertainment Round-Up: GORDON gow reporting.
Master Your Memory - TONY BUZAN shows you how-3: dates and numbers. Winter in July by DORIS LESSING abridged in two parts and read by MARGARET INGLIS (1) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Tale of the Five Little Pigs by GLENYS HATCH
Creepers by FREDERICK BRADNUM
William's Women byRICHMALCROMPTOI*
Five short stories, abridged and read by Martin Jarvis
William was not renowned for his devotion to the fair sex; his relations with them were tinged with distrust and often withoutrightscorn.Buthis heart could be touched, and the results were always interesting.
1: William and the Fairy Daffodil Producer JANE MORGAN
Presented by Robert Williams
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
A weekly series of discussion programmes
Today's guests are:
Clare Francis , Irene Gore and Diana Mosley
Presiding Irene Thomas Theme: Loneliness
Producer MADEAU STEWART
(Repeated: Tuesday 1,30 pm)
In the studio Erik de Mauny
The first of four record programmes in which Derek Parker takes an affectionate look back at English musical comedy between 1916 and 1939.
The Life of Man by JOHN ARDEN
* I'm Captain Jonas Anthract. There's most of ye will have heard of me. I don't need to tell ye what sort of man I am. Ye don't need to tell me what sort of men you are. I know. Ye're the scum and sweepings of the Western Ocean, ye're all a desolation of drunkards and idle, thieving, ungodly swine: and I'm going to make ye weep tears of blood, thereby fulfilling the Commandments of the Lord.'
Aboard The Life of Man:
Crew:
HENRY LIVINGS , SHANE CONNAUGH -TON, ALUN ARMSTRONG , PAUL HUM-POLETZ, DAVID JACKSON
Produced and directed by ALFRED BRADLEY
BBC Manchester
reads a selection of Shelley's lyrics including Ode to the West Wind.
Introduced by HALLAM TENNYSON .(First broadcast on R3 in 1975)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughaa Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Wedding Group by ELIZABETH TAYLOR abridgedin13parts by JANET HICKSON
Read by June Barrie
1: Cressy escapes from the domination of Quayne, her grandfather's religious and artisticcommunity,intowhat she believes is the real world '. And there, awaiting her, is a husband and a mother-in-law.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
preceded by Weather
