Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLAIT
with Piers Burton-Page
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Piers Burton-Page
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
by RUDYARD KIPLING (7)
Cricket
The cricketing bonanza continues with current interest in the Test Matches against the Australians, the Packer Circus and the one-day sponsored competitions. But how healthy is cricket in this country and what is its future? Are promising youngsters being catered for, and do we provide the proper coaching facilities? Is cricket today comparable with the cricket of yesterday? Put your questions to former England fast bowler Fred Trueman and ex-Captain Colin Cowdrey. In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 a.m
A choice of operatic highlights. 1: Operatic Brides
In the first of five weekly programmes, Nigel Douglas takes a light-hearted look at some of the predicaments of operatic lovers. (Shortened repeat)
NEM, p 89; Lord of the worlds above (BBC HB 462); Psalm 118, vv 1-14; Acts 28, vv 16-31 (NEB); Soldiers, who are Christ's below (BBC HB 337)
The Detectives by A. R. RAWLINSON
Read by Martin Jarvis
They were both avid readers of Agatha Christie 's books and this summer holiday they had created for themselves a private world in which Daphne was Miss Marple and David, reluctantly moustacheless, Hercule Poirot.
Venus at the Seaside by JENNIFER PHILLIPS
Further adventures of Sonya and Alex Lejeune , last heard in Your Tiny Hand is Frozen with Penelope Lee as Sonya and David Sinclair as Alex Alex Lejeune , faded opera singer, is asked to help judge a seaside beauty competition. Sonya, his equally operatic wife. enlists the aid of local feminist group to affect the result ...
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Home and Family Edition Presenter Mari Prichard
Jessica Mitford
12.55 medium only Weather and programme news
VHF (exc London and SE) Regional news and weather
Introduced by Laurie Mayer
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The World's Greatest Lover?: GORDON cow investigates the legendary figure of Don Juan who has fascinated the world for more than three centuries.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Fresh Air and Dialysis: DENNIS SKILLICORN visits an unusually equipped scout camp in the New Forest.
The Inheritors: ELIZABETH WEBB talks to ANTHONY HUXLEY , writer and botanist, descendant of a famous scientific and literary line.
Worth a Detour: JENNIFER MAY visits the McCarty collection of Nelsonia in Portsmouth. Long Road to Freedom (2)
Story: Red Fox and the Old Black Cat by VERA RUSTIBROOKE
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 Katherine of Aragon dies and Anne Boleyn 's daughter is born.
Music for the series played by members of the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer.
Directed by Martin Jenkins.
The Warden
7: Tom Towers Won't Help
Presented by Laurie Mayer
Waxing Lyrical
Peter Clayton investigates some of the lyric writers' favourite themes in popular song.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30pm)
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
(from The Tyger by WILLIAM BLAKE )
A weekly series of poetry programmes compiled and presented by Patric Dickinson
Poems read by ELIZABETH BELL and SEAN BARRETT
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
as Radio 3
(as Radio 3)
followed by an interlude
A discussion of the value of words in the 70s between
Tom Stoppard , Henry Cecil
Benny Green and David Ryall under the chairmanship of Tony Palmer
Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT (First broadcast 1 April 1972, Radio 3)
Dougias Stuart reporting
Another chance to hear a selected edition from this series, written by FRANK MUIR and denis norden , starring
Dick Bentley , Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield
With WALLAS EATON, THE KEYNOTES and the BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA conductor HARRY RABINOWITZ Producer charles maxwell
( First broadcast in May 1058)
Point of Departure (2)
The Scottish grouse moors, once the preserve of the aristocracy, are now dominated by business tycoons from Europe and America.
Night 2: The customers are rich and turnover runs into millions. Malcolm Billings delves into the business side.
preceded by Weather
