Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
with Susan Denny
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Susan Denny
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
Home Dressmaking
Some tips, please, for avoiding that home-made look. No pattern seems to be just right for me - how can I adapt itt How can I stop my collar curling at the edges* Have you any advice for working with man-made fibres? What is the easiest way to set in a sleeve
Put your questions to sewing adviser Betty Foster
In the Chair Jill Burridge Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
nem, p 38; Let all the world in every corner sing (BBC HB 275); Psalm 20; Acts 14, vv 8-26 (NEB); At the name of Jesus (BBC HB 120)
I Liked You Telling Me Things by JOHN ALBERY
Read by Jim McManus
' Deborah was easily the best-looking and classiest girl in the neighbourhood. We all wanted to go out with her, but she knew her own value and had remained aloof.'
Home and Family Edition Presenter Mari Prichard with your letters
Second Round
Chairman Robert Robinson 17: London
LANCE HAWARD, solicitor
OLCA EVANS: WILLIAM WILCOX. picture restorer
JOHN CROWN , security officer
The programme includes Beat the Brains. Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN who also, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions. Producer JOHN BRIDGES
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF (exc London and SE)
Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
(Monduy's broadcast)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
At the Old Bailey: ANNE CATCHPOLE meets some of the people who work at Britain's most famous criminal court.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Ensnared by Flowers and Enchanted by Music: HELEN PALMER reports on the International Festival of Flowers and Music to be held at Westminster Cathedral.
WINIFRED BEAUMONT , author Of our last serial, A Detail on the Burma Front, talks about her life before and after the war. Amy Foster by JOSEPH CONRAD abridged in five parts by IAN LOMAS. Read by Gerald Cross (1) ' He was so different from the mankind around that, with his freedom of movement, his olive complexion and graceful bearing, his humanity suggested to me the nature of a woodland creature ... He was a castaway. A poor emigrant from Central Europe and washed ashore here in a storm.'
(Music: Alwyn's 5th Symphony)
Story: Mrs Cluckabiddy and the Lost Squeak by STEPHEN WEAVER
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 Henry retain.s the crown, but York is crowned by Margaret.
Directed by Martin Jenkins.
(Peggy Ashcroft and Norman Rodway are members of the RSC)
Sleeping Murder
2: Cover her Face
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and 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 1.30 pm)
In the studio Peter Hobday
Part 1: as Radio 3
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Part 2: as Radio 3
Presenter Tony Palmer
John Tusa reporting
Life at the Top by JOHN BRAINE (2)
preceded by Weather