Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
A note from GERALD PRIESTLAND, Religious Affairs Correspondent.
6.55 medium only
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
NORMAN TOZER with Saturday's Consumer Report - the weekend's best buys and the adventures of Superbuy and Astra, Radio 4's consumer cops.
7.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHFRegional news and weather
Tony Lewis is at Silverstone to capture the atmosphere on the morning of the British Grand Prix - the biggest day of the year in British motor-racing. The programme also spotlights the Benson and Hedges Cup Final at Lord's, and the European Cup athletics at Crystal Palace. Plus up-to-the-minute news of other events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and OB production
8.45 Today's Papers
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Margaret Howard 's selection Producer ADRIANNE ALLER
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Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
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New Every Morning, page 9; From all that dwell below the skies (BBC Hymn Book 5); Canticle 6, part 1; Acts 21, vv 15-26 (NEB); Immortal, invisible, God only wise (BBC HB 10)
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Nigel Rees takes a weekly look at the press and talks to editors, journalists and their readers about what the newspapers print and why, Producer ANNE SLOMAN
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Parliamentarians reflect on their week's work in Westminster and discuss current talking points in the world of politics. Presenter Peter Jenkins Producer DAVID WALTER
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Presented by Ian Ridpath
A weekly survey of what Is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.0 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Lady Barnett Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Neil Kinnock , mp, Gwyn Morgan Chairman David Jacobs from Mid-Glamorgan
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
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An hour's miscellany of chat, fact and fiction with Anne Gregg and Peter Windows , And Nigel GRAHAM reads A Squirrel Forever by DOUGLAS FAIRBAIRN (4) Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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Waiting for the Third by TAYLOR LOVERING
What makes my kind tick? We spend years and years jockeying for position, climbing over backs, standing on necks. Eat too much, drink too much. Struggle day and night to reach the top only to find a little man who greets you with a cardiograph and a barium sandwich.'
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)
medium only: as Radio 3
Presented by Gordon Clough
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
including musical punctuations by PETER SKELLERN
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Shirley Conran, the journalist and writer, chooses the records she would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Catchmere Fugitive
A play for radio by JOHN ASHE with ' A crudish model of a young woman ... wood, clay, wax, probably on a wire frame. Face, hands painted. Obviously not old, probably made quite recently. Yes, of course it's an effigy. Could be a caricature of yourself....'
Directed by BRIAN MILLER
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Mon 3.5)
A panorama of British India recorded by some of those who lived in it.
3: Kipling's Army - the British private soldier in India.
.' I think soldiers have less grouses than most, really. They don't expect much. They don't get much, either - or didn't... ' Presented by Evan Charlton
Field recordings by CHARLES ALLEN
Producer MICHAEL MASON
Evening thoughts and music, led by IAN MACKENZIE BBC Scotland
preceded by Weather