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 Astraj Radio 4's consumer cops.
7.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Tony Lewis captures the atmosphere on a day of major international competition -New Zealand play the British Isles, the third Rugby Union Test in Dunedin; and England's cricketers meet Australia in the third Test at Trent Bridge. Plus the personalities in the news, and up-to-the-minute coverage 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 PHYLLIS ROBINSON
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Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
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New Every Morning, page 54: Breathe on me, breath of God (BBC Hymn Book 148); Psalm 143; Acts 25, v 23 to 26, v 8 (NEB); Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (BBC HB 508)
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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 BERNARD TATE
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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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12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by. Malcolm Muggeridge The Rt Hon
Sir Christopher Soames
The Countess of Longford The Earl of March
Chairman David Jacobs from West Sussex
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
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Out and about in Great
Yarmouth with Peter Windows and Molly Price-Owen . And Eirene Beck reads The Etruscan Couple by EDITH REVBLY abridged by ANGELA JESSON Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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A Small Matter of Manipulation by MARY C. OGDON
Angie is a budgerigar. Looked after, cooed over and generally made a fuss of by Mum and Dad. But Angie is no fool. She knows exactly how to manipulate her owners, and when Andy is introduced into her life. !
Directed by KAY PATRICK (Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)
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Presented by Gordon dough
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Leslie Thomas , novelist, journalist, traveller, introduces some of his favourite poetry and prose.
' Somewhere along the way, I suppose, there comes to everyone a time when they realise and mark the things that to them are beautiful and good ..-, when I was 13 I discovered the things, or the beginnings of them. that I have alwavs loved.' Readers JANE KNOWLES and BRIAN GEAR .
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
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Friday 11.5 am)
Billy Connolly, the Scottish entertainer, 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)
Rightful Possession by VALERIE GEORGESON
Ian and Alix have spent a great deal of time and energy restoring Craydelsend, an old house in the Pennines, to its original state. But their happiness is threatened by the ghost of somebody who lived and suffered there 300 years ago.:
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
A panorama of British India recorded by some of those who lived in it.
"I think that More Plain Tales From the Raj surpassed its predecessor; indeed Spike Milligan's description of the Indian Armistice Day Parade was one of the most vivid things I have ever heard." (David Wade, The Times)
"India was possibly the greatest experience of my life. I grew up in bright sunshine (I like bright things), I grew up with animals, I grew up with excitement..."
Presented by Evan Charlton
Saturday Evening Prayers led by THE REV LESLIE MITCHELL BBC Manchester
preceded by Weather
