Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
6.40 Prayer for the Day CANON ROY MCKAY
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
At 7.6 and 9.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
Astronomy
Starring Patrick Moore. Most of us are content to gaze occasionally at the beauty of the twinkling stars on a dark, clear night. But if you are interested in astronomy, then the heavens abound with ' fixed ' stars, exploding stars, star clusters, supernovae, planetary systems, quasars, pulsars and black holes. This morning you can share your observations and ask your questions on this science of inconceivable statistics.
Although much is being learned from expensive space research, amateur stargazers too have made important discoveries.
Firmly on earth, in the Chair - Judith Chalmers. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
NEM, p 13; My song is love unknown (BBC HB 84); Psalm 103, w 1-13; John 18. v 37 to 19, v 11 (AV); 0 Saviour, where shall guilty man (BBC HB 87)
Six talks for Holy Week by REV RICHARD HOLLOWAY , Rector of Old St Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church. Edinburgh. 2: The End of Law BBC Scotland
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Wirksworth in Derbyshire 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 6: South of England II
FRANCES CARROLL (Hampshire)
PHILIP QUICK (Sussex), insurance clerk
MICHAEL LOND (Berkshire), systems analyst
ERIC FOSTER (Sussex), retired draughtsman
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 Birth of a Theatre: when the Tramshed's new director took over last Autumn his ambition was to form a permanent professional company to present cabaret, music-hall and plays at this London dockland theatre. NORMAN TOZER has been following the progress towards that goal.
2.0-2.2 News
Trouble under Foot: ANNE MAC-NAMARA investigates some long standing problems.
Reading your letters.
Tip-Top to Tip-Toe: shape up for the spring with the help of ESTHER FAIRFAX and a kitchen chair.
' They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil ' - or have they? HELEN PALMER looks at the past and futures of coffee. Winter in July by DORIS LESSING abridged in two parts and read by MARGARET INGLIS (2)
Story: Magpie, Magpie, Build Me a Nest by ANNE ENGLISH
A dramatic chronicle of the English Crown through 200 years of its history by the Elizabethan playwrights Shakespeare, Marlowe and their contemporaries, adapted in 26 parts by Martin Jenkins
Music by Christopher Whelen
The story is told by Richard Burton
In which Falstaff impersonates the King and Prince Hal vows to be a King.
Produced and directed by Martin Jenkins.
(Anthony Quayle is a member of the RSC, Stratford)
visits Leicestershire where members of the Billesdon Women's Institute put their questions to FRED LOADS
BILL SOWEHBUTTS
ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
William's Women
2: The Midnight Adventure of Miss Montagu
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
Presenter Michael Oliver
Part las Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Wedding Group (2)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
