A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from The Royal Show Ground at Stoneleigh by ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
with Edward Cole
Headlines and weather, a look at the papers, news for sports fans, Prayer for the Day (Mon THE REV LESLIE STOKES , TueS-Thurs JEAN RICHARDSON , Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES ), a little music and something on the lighter side.
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Michael Cooke in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London look at Britain and the world this morning.
with Edward Cole
Headlines, weather, sport and papers. a spot of music and Thought for the Day.
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Michael Cooke in Manchester Editor MIKE CHANEY
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
reflects on life in and out of the Sound Archives.
A live and lively talk show with guests for whom the coming week promises to be a special one.
The team of regulars helping to find antidotes to the Monday morning blues includes Bernard Falk. Fritz Spiegl and Mavis Nicholson.
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
A magazine edition with the call of the Morepork, news of the peashooter plant, a look at the Robin's pincushion - and the wildlife sound competition* Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
nem, p 75; God's law is perfect (BBC HB 456); Psalm 112; Acts 17, v 24 to 18, v 4 (NEB); Come, labour on! (BBC HB 388)
The Peach Tree byRENEPHIPPS
Read by Sam Kelly
' Henry suddenly stopped, and pounced on something half hidden by a piece of paper. "Wot yer got?" asked Bill. " Dunno," replied Henry...
Four true stories about people who have managed to survive unusual experiences. 1: The White Divorce by KONRAD SYROP, based on the book Monuments are not Loved by NINA KARSOV and SZYMON SZECHTER. with and
'It would be affectation to pretend that any judge could listen to the evidence in this case unmoved by the courage and generosity of the persons principally concerned.' with EDWARD KELSEY, ANDREW SACHS and KERRY FRANCIS
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Earning and Saving Edition Presenter Margaret Korving including the World of Work and your letters answered... Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Miss Read. Show more
Second Round
Chairman Robert Robinson 19: South of England DENNIS BIRD (Sussex), civil servant
MICHAEL LOND (Berkshire), systems analyst
PHILIP QUICK (Sussex), insurance clerk
STEPHEN MIDDLETON (Berkshire), schoolteacher
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN who also, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions* Producer JOHN BRIDGES
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Robert Williams
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON GOW reporting.
Start the Week with Yoga: joy BURLING helps us to relax and find a new way of life.
Come Hell or High Water (5) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Nasty Green Caterpillar by KATE GREENAWAY
The Resurrectionist
The Wind Cannot Read by RICHARD MASON , abridged in ten parts by ALISON PLOWDEN Read by David Davis (1)
A novel set in Burma and India during the Second World War.
' Though on the sign it is written, " Don't pluck these blossoms ", it is useless against the wind, which cannot read.' Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Presented by Robert Williams
Kieran Prendiville goes to the Archive Auction
An imaginary sale of the BBC's Sound Archives attracts Kieran Prendiville - on holiday from That's Life - to browse through the catalogue and choose the recordings he would most like to own.
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including
Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Mission Inedible with NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY , JOHN GRAHAM Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Blossom by ROSE TREMAIN with Ruth Goring as Grace Grace is in her 50s. She provides bed and breakfast for commercial travellers. They like her. She is cheerful, bright, warm and welcoming. Yet life is never that simple. Grace is a complicated mixture of desire and loneliness - as we discover.
Directed by KAY PATRICK
Dave Arthur looks at six British folk heroes whose legends live on in poetry, prose and song.
1: Dick Turpin
A report on this week's General Synod of the Church of England by GERALD PRIESTLAND, BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent.
Presenter Michael Oliver Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
Private portraits of people in the public mind, sketched out in their own words - and with detail from others near or around them.
(Revised repeat: Tues 11.35 am)
by Laurie Lee
abridged in ten parts by Gordon House
Read by Michael Beint
"Never to be forgotten, that first long secret drink of golden fire, juice of those valleys and of that time, wine of wild orchards, of russet summer, of plump red apples, and Rosie's burning cheeks. Never to be forgotten, or ever tasted again..."
(Michael Beint is a National Theatre player)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
