Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
6.50 medium wave only 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
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC. Birmingham
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 Talking Politics
The role of special advisers to senior Government Ministers has been the subject of much heated controversy in political circles. But what functions do these advisers perform? How far can they influence policy decisions? Are they now a permanent feature of Government? Presented by Anthony King
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES looks at an aspect of newspaper coverage this week.
Narrator colin DORAN
Producers STUART SIMON
TOM READ and ANNE SLOMAK
New Every Morning, page 5; Father, 0 hear us (BBC HB 260); Psalm 19, vv 1-11; I Peter 1, vv 1-9 (RSV); The day of Resurrection (BBC HB 112)
medium ivave only
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes during the past seven days. Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
Presented by Geoff Watts
A weekly survey of what Is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad. Producer THELMA RUMSEY
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Foot . Charles Causley Helene Hayman , mp and A. L. Rowse
Chairman David Jacobs from Cornwall
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
BBC Bristol
with Judith Chalmers and Peter Windows sheds a tear for the Orient Express and hears travellers' tales old and new. ANDREW MANDERSTAM reads the European papers. And jim MCMANUS reads I Know a Rotten Place by BRYAN BREED abridged in six parts (3) Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
by Robert Hunter
Fred: I'll get them shifted for you, the masks, the costumes, the lot. She'll be left with the bare floorboards.
Jack: Poor old cow!
Fred: We'll bleed her dry.
BBC Northern Ireland
(Repeated: Wed 11.30 am)
as Radio 3
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Unpredictable table-talk bounced off the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense with observers of and contributors to the current social, artistic and political scene. Musical intervals by INSTANT SUNSHINE Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist. chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
by Jack Gerson
[Starring] John Breslin, Edith Macarthur and John Franklyn-Robbins
'This twisted-up society of ours needs a few like me. Otherwise it falls apart.'
'We're policemen. Not judges or jurymen.'
'Not today. We're the lot. We've got to be. Or the animals all get loose on the streets.'
(BBC Scotland) (Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
Harry Armytage , John Gross and Mary Warnock with Brian Redhead
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
(Brian Redhead is in a new series: Don't Quote Me, BBC2
8.10 pm)
Evening thoughts and music led by REV STEWART LAMONT BBC Scotland
preceded by Weather
