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 PRIESTLAND Religious Affairs Correspondent
6.55
Weather and programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Yours Faithfully
Saturday's consumer report, with the weekend's best buys and the adventures of Superbuy and Astra, Radio 4's consumer cops.
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 (Tony Lewis is in Saturday Night at the Mill 11.35 BBC1)
8.45 Today's Papers
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents through. out the world report on the so'cieties 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 JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
BERNARD TATE and ANNE SLOMAH
New Every Morning, page 67; Put thou thy trust in God (BBC HB 313); Psalm 93; Romans 12, vv 9-21 (NEB): When all thy mercies, 0 my God (BBC HB 22)
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 THELMA RUMSEY
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Kearton, Patrick Moore
Hugh Scanlon , Baroness Young Chairman David Jacobs from Derbyshire
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. ANNE MACNAMARA reads the European papers.
And GAVIN CAMPBELL reads the second of six
Roman Tales by ALBERTO MORAVIA 2: The Lorry Driver Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Summer Days by BRUCE BEEBY with Rosemary Miller Nicolette McKenzie and Bruce Beeby
An old man looks back to his childhood in Australia in the First World War - and to the pain and innocence of first love. Freddie, grown up...BRUCE BEEBY
Mouth organ played by ALFIE KAHN. Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: Wed 11.30 am)
as Radio 3
Presented by Gordon Clough
5.55 mediumwaveonly
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
as the host and his guests take a look at some of the peculiarities of the week and promote conversation around topics which they find amusing, amazing or annoying. Musical intervals by PETER SKELLERN
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
P.L. Travers, the author and creator of Mary Poppins, chooses records for a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
November Reef by robin MAUGHAM dramatised for radio by JOHN A SHE
Ken Gill flies out to the South Seas to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the crew and cargo of the Jeannette, an ageing cargo vessel found abandoned on reefs north of Fiji.
Produced and directed by BRIAN MILLER. BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
Frank Field. John Selwyn Gummer and Dipak Nandy with Brian Redhead
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
A Meditation led by STEPHEN WHITILE , BBC Manchester
preceded by Weather
