Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
6.50 Yours Faithfully
A note from GERALD PRIESTLÀND, Religious Affairs Correspondent
6.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A weekly review of the agricultural scene. Producer KEN FORD. BBC Manchester
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Yours Faithfully
7.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
with Tony Lewis
From the world of sport and leisure, a new-style sports magazine series, presented by TONY LEWIS , former England cricket captain, now a leading broadcaster and journalist. The programme highlights the issues that matter and the leading personalities as well as up-to-the-minute news of events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sports Unit production
8.45 Today's Papers
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 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ROBERT CARVEL
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES invites journalists to confront their readers and the people they have written about in the press this week Narrator HARRIET CASS
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
TOM READ and BERINIARD TATE
New Every Morning, page 30; Sing, my tongue the glorious battle (BBC Hymn Book 90), Canticle 5; Romans 8, vv 22-39 (NEB); Take up thy cross (BBC HB 369)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes during the past seven days.
Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly survey of what Is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Peter Jay
Lord David Cecil Baroness Sharp and Sir Huw Wheldon
Chairman David Jacobs from Wiltshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
A lively hour with Jill Burridge and Peter Windows - sometimes in control of guests in the studio and reporters around the country.
JOHN ARDAGH reads the European papers.
And Gavin Campbell reads the first of six Roman Tales by ALBERTO MORAVIA translated by ANGUS DAVIDSON abridged by DELIA PATON
1: Don't Delve Too Deeply Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
medium wave onlff
Return Visit by DAVID R. ROBERTS
' Have you seen the old geezer outside? He was asking me about the time of trams. I told him he'd missed the last onej He said he'd been away.'
' Doing time like? If he's expecting to see trams he must have had more porridge than the three bears.'
Produced and directed by TONY CLIFF
as Radio 3
All the day's current affairs, news and comment presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team 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 PETER SKELLERN
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Peggy Lee, the singer, chooses the records she would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley.
Records introduced by Richard Baker
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
A novel of suspense by PETER LOVESEY dramatised for radio by GEOFFREY M. MATTHEWS with John Rye as Det-Sgt Cribb John Hollis as pc Thackeray and Steve Hodson as pc Jago
A young constable is infiltrated into the seedy and shady world of barefist pugilism in late Victorian England in a police attempt to solve some murder mysteries. It is suspected that losing pugilists have been disposed of by decapitation so that the corpses cannot be identified.
Produced and directed by GRAHAM GAULD
Leon Brittan , mp, David Dilks and Patrick Seyd in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
Evening reflections led by COLIN SEMPER
preceded by Weather
