Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
with John Hedges
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
with John Hedges
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
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Vegetarian Cookery
Meat and fish prices are so high these days our family's just got to get used to having a few vegetarian meals. Could you suggest some simple, tasty, and quickly prepared dishes? How can we be sure of getting adequate protein if we adoptavegetariandietf
Put your questions to the cookery writers Rose Elliot , who is a vegetarian, and Gail Duff , who is not.
Sue MacGregor in the Chair Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am
NEM, p 13; Praise ye the Lord, ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 280); Psalm 103, vv 13-22; Romans 6, vv 15-23 (neb); Love of the Father (BBC HB 522)
Written and read by Brian Hayes
'He'd not been in anything recently. He told himself that he had been going through a bad patch. It was comforting because it implied that there had been times when he had had a good patch.'
Home and Family Edition Presenter Mari Pricbard. with your letters
A general knowledge contest Chairman Robert Robinson 11: North of England I
PAUL HORBURY (West Yorkshire), lecturer
NEVILLE COHEN < Wirral), lecturer GRACE THOMPSON (Liverpool)
TONY ei.br* (Cheshire), computer manager
Including Beat the Brains
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
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
When the World Was a Bigger Place; Charles ALLEN with some travellers' tales from the BBC Sound Archives.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
People of Prejudice: JOHN tyme, campaigner against motorways. Sewing Club: JILL BURRIDGE with news, views and information for the home needle-woman. Fear to Tread (5)
Story: Too Many Bean by MARGARET JOY
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 and Paul Scofield as The Chorus
In which the English teach the French a lesson and a Princess takes a lesson in English.
Produced and directed by Gerry Jones.
The Dead Secret by WILKIE COLLINS
Read by DAVID MARCH
2: Return to Porthgennm
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 rack BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Erik de Mauny
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
by Anthony Smith
Until this year it was perfectly proper to keep a viper, or a puma, or even a tiger in the average British home. Now you need a licence and that may cost you up to 1100 a year for the privilege. But why don't you need a Licence to keep a hyena or a rhinoceros? And more to the point, ANTHONY SMITH asks, why did we need the new legislation anyway?
Presenter Tony Palmer
Douglas Stuart reporting
Coming Up for Air (14)
preceded by Weather