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 VHF Regional news and weather
with Tony Lewis
From the world of sport and leisure, a magazine series presented by Tony Lewis. The programme highlights the issues that matter and introduces the week's personalities, plus up-to-the-minute news of 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 GWYNETH HENDERSON
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Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
(Further editions: Mon 7.20 pm and Thurs 10.5 am)
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New Every Morning, page 34; The Saviour died (BBC Hymn Book 497); Canticle 8; Acts 23, vv 12-24 (NEB); Jesus lives! (BBC HB 106)
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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 Hugo Young Producer DAVID WALTER
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(For details: see Wed 9.0 pm)
as Radio 3
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by The Rt Hon Edward du Cann , mp Charles Causley , Clare Francis Robert Bolt
Chairman David Jacobs from Devon. 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 , abridged in five parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN (5) Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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Love in the Office by DUDLEY WARMAN , with Richard O'Callaghan as Green Rosalind Ayres as Miss Timothy Bateson as Brown and Irene Sutcliffe as Mrs Taking very long lunch hours and holding hands in the park with a junior typist doesn't seem the way to get on in the Civil Service, but Mr Green isn't that interested in his career. with NICOLETTE MCKENZIE and KENNETH SHANLEY . Directed by JANE MORGAN
(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
and his guests. Musical punctuations by PETER SKELLERN Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Arthur C. Clarke, the science-fiction writer, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
(Repeated: Tuesday 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Linden Tree by J. B. PRIESTLEY
Adapted for radio by MOLLIE GREENHALGH with Geoffrey Banks and Kathleen Helme.
England 1947, and rationing and austerity seem to have fostered opportunism, escapism and confrontation within the Linden family. Professor Linden wants only to continue teaching in a world that no longer seems to share his quiet ideals. His family urge him to retire from the fight but the Professor is not so easily deterred.
Directed by KAY PATRICK
BBC Manchester (Rptd: Mon 3.5)
9.58 Weather
4: Tigers, Ponies and Mountains - Sport and Exploration
! He was under the tiger as it was dying. And he dreaded to struggle or even move in case the dying tiger might think that he was an itch and try to scratch him.'
Presented by Evan Charlton
Field recording by CHARLES ALLEN and PRAKASH MIRCHANDANI
Producer MICHAEL MASON
A meditation for late evening led by FR CRISPIAN HOLLIS
preceded by Weather
