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
Camping and Caravanning
This is just the time of year when you may feel a call to the outdoor life. If you do and you don't know how to begin, then a phone call this morning could solve your problems. On [number removed]will be Eric Fowler of the Camping Club and Christine Fagg of Caravan magazine - both experienced in the problems and pleasures of outdoor l,iving. They can advise on the kind of tent or caravan to suit your particular requirements, from a small tent for one, to a caravan and awning for eight; the legal aspects of towing a van or camping in a field; the sorts of cooking utensils needed: what food to take with you and how to cook easy meals on wheels; the places to visit and those to avoid. In the Chair Jill Burridge Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
nem, p 17; Child in the manger (BBC HB 45); Psalm 33, vv 13-21; Acts 21, v 37 to 22, v 15 (NEB); 0 help us (BBC HB 336)
The Key by DENYS VAL BAKER Read by Rod Beacham
Waiting for the Third
Home and Family Edition Presenter Mari Prichard with your letters
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF (exc London and SE)
Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
You and Eurocrats: what the work of the European Commission has to do with us.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Poems from Home: VICKI FEAVER writes about her own family.
Worth a Detour: JENNIFER MAY visits the Roman capital of the Cotswolds.
Far from the Madding Crowd (6)
Story: Mrs McMuddle 's Spring Cleaning by MOIRA HERITAGE
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 Richard III is haunted bv those he has killed and Henry VII is haunted by one of the little Princes.
Directed by Gerry Jones
4.5 Gardeners' Question Time
visits Somerset, where members of the Rode WI and the Rode Horticultural Society put their questions to Fred Loads, Bill Sowerbutts and Alan Gemmell
Questionmaster Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great 2: Betrothal
Presented by Brian Widlake
Waxing Lyrical
Peter Clayton investigates some of the lyric writers' favourite themes in popular song.
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30pm)
A weekly series of poetry programmes compiled and presented by Patric Dickinson
Poems read by ELIZABETH BELL and SEAN BARRETT
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Part 1: as Radio 3
Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
Presenter Michael Oliver
John Tusa reporting
Another chance to hear a selected edition from this series
Written by BARRY TOOK and MARTY FELDMAN
starring Kenneth Home with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee
Music by THE FRASER HAYES FOUR, EDWIN BRADEN AND THE HORNBLOWERS
Announcer DOUGLAS SMITH Producer JOHN SIMMONDS
Marnie (2)
preceded by Weather
