Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV LESLIE STOKES
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
Money
Ring your questions on the ever-interesting topic to John Davis , Business Editor of the Observer. Are you having trouble filling in your tax form? Are there perhaps allowances you are entitled to? Is your money in the best place? Can you guard against inflation? What happens about 1 tax-paid ' interest if you are not a tax payer?
Sue MacGregor will be in the chair to take your calls,. 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 67; What tongue can tell thy greatness, Lord (BBC HB 541); Psalm 119, part 3; I Peter 4, vv 1-11 (rsv); Lord of all being, throned afar (BBC HB 11)
The Devil's Wine by JOAN O'CONNOR
Read by Peter Marinker
' I knew she despised my kind of violence, brief, loud, uncontrolled and often ending in gales of laughter. I frightened myself in those days but I never frightened Katrina,.*
Brian Johnston recently visited Woodbridge in Suffolk
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
9: Midlands and East Anglia I BARRY MCCARTNEY (Suffolk), schoolteacher
GEORGE CRAWFORD (Northamptonshire), retired civil servant
IAN HENDERSON (Warwickshire), lecturer
IAN STEVENS (Leicester), clerical worker
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
from 2.0
Sue MacGregor and Wyn Knowles bring back impressions of the People's Republic, home of a quarter of mankind. 800,000,000 people; a land which has been a communist society for nearly 30 years; where many ancient traditions have been uprooted, yet acupuncture flourishes alongside Western medicine; and where posters proclaim that ' Women Hold Up Half the Sky ',
2.0-2.2 News
Story: Grandpa's Third Eye by MARJORIE DARU
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 the rebels are lured into a trap and the King dies in Jerusalem.
Produced and directed by Martin Jenkins
visits Nottinghamshire, where members of the Ollerton Women's Institute put their questions to FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
Kif by JOSEPHINE TEY 2: The Letter
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 1.30pm)
In the studio Erik de Mauny
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Coming Up for Air by GEORGE ORWELL
Read by DAVID RYALL (4)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
