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
Peter Tuddenham selects and readssomeoftheturn-of-the-centuryreminiscencesofthe King of the Norfolk Poachers 2: Schooldays and Prison
When my tumble-dryer went wrong, it was just a tiny clip that had worked loose, but the service engineer charged £10 for the visit. What jobs can I safely do myself? How can I best insulate my house to save on next winter's fuel bills? Double-glazing: should I - could I - do it myself? I've been given some old furniture. How can I strip it down and smarten it up? Put your questions to Tony Wilkins, Editor of Do It Yourself magazine.
Sue MacGregor is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am
NEM, p 50; Holy Spirit, truth divine (BBC HB 155); Psalm 139; Acts 2, vv 12-21 (av); 0 Holy Ghost (BBC HB 156)
A Royal Day by GERARD MELIA
Read by Stephen Thorne
' " Harry - don't you ever listen? Look! Sweep your arm round and flick it from the wrist." Our headteacher was rehearsing us in the school playground for the forthcoming
! coronation celebrations.'
Brianjohnstonrecentlyvisited Ventnor on the Isle of Wight Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
defends modern pop lyrics against critics who say ' they don't write songs like that any more.'
Home and Family Edition Presenter Mari Prichard with your letters.
Editor DENNIS LOWER
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners competetobecomethisyear's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 14: Scotland II alis IN JANE CUNNINGHAM (Edinburgh), local government officer GORDON HEPBURN (Ayrshire), schoolteacher
ALASTAIR MANN (Glasgow), information scientist
PETER BLAIR (Glasgow), retired schoolteacher
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
Introduced by Sue MacGregor From the Cloisters to the Street: a modern nun's story from Washington DC.
Reading Your Letters
2.0-2.2 News
Have a Good Holiday! - 2: SUSAN GROSSMAN on insurance and how to cope with illness.
Do You Suffer from Triskaidekaphobia? joy MELVILLE has discovered that almost everything worries somebody.
' Know-How ': NORMAN TOZER with more ideas to make light of running your home.
Stories of The Nightwatchman 6: The Dreamer
Story: The Jumping Game - an adaptation of an original HANS ANDERSEN story by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD
16: The White Rose - and the Red
KENNETH FORD invites FRED LOADS GEOFFREY SMITH and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post Questions, on postcards please, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX. BBC Manchester
Gulliver's Travels (7)
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Silver Jubilee Edition
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 1.30 pm)
In the studio Peter Hobday
Part 1 as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
Presenter Michael Oliver
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Buried Alive (12)
A series of four programmes in which the tables are turned on people who usually ask the questions.
Tonight Melvyn Bragg is interviewed by Margaret Forster
preceded by Weather
