A regional view of farming in the week ahead presented from the North by Ken Ford. BBC Manchester
with Edward Cole
Headlines and weather, a look at the papers, news for sports fans, Prayer for the Day (Mon FR PATRICK MCENROE , Tues-Thurs GEOFFREY FLETCHER , Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES )
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Edward Cole
Headlines, weather, sport and papers, a spot of music and Thought for the Day.
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
reflects on life in and out of the Sound Archives
Esther Rantzen , Bernard Falk and Kenneth Robinson , together with their guests in the studio, provide the incentive to face Monday morning.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
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My friend emigrated to New Zealand taking two cats with her. The weather there is warmingupjustasthecats are getting their winter coats. Will they adjust or permanently wear winter coats in summer?
The team takes a cool look at your wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 25; 0 day of God (BBC HB 24); Psalm 27, part 1; Malachi 3, vv 1-5, 11-12 (AV); All glory to God (BBC HB 29)
by Douglas Railton
Read by David Davis
(medium only)
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medium only is too much asked of headmasters and headmistresses? Are the right people chosen and trained for the job? Brian Groombridge looks at these and related questions.
(Full details: see Thurs 7.45pm)
11.50 medium only Announcements
Presenter George Luce With MARGARET KORVING
Ysgol Gyfun, Ystalyfera v. Olchfa County Secondary School, Swansea
Questionmaster Tim Gudgin
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only Weather and programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Robert Williams
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
A Different View of Constance Cummings: JANET COHEN talks to her at her farm.
Life on the Boards: ANNE JONES admits to a failure in her life. Gentle Words for the Gentle Sex: GILLIAN STRICKLAND With her monthly review of newly published women's magazines. The Incredible Journey by SHEILA BURNFORD , abridged in six parts by ANGELA JESSON Read by Jim Norton (1)
The famous story of how a labrador, an English bull terrier and a Siamese cat travelled nearly 300 miles to reach home and the family they loved.
(Music: Janacek's Taras Bulba)
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Story: The Slippery Sliding Soap by GWYNNETH HENREY.
By Eric Saward
The Tale of Beatrix Potter by MARGARET LANE abridged for radio in five parts by JANET HICKSON Read by Mary Wimbush (1)
A biography of Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), one of the most celebrated children's authors and illustrators. After a lonely but affluent childhood in London she only found real happiness when she made her home in the Lake District. In between lay much personal sadness, but out of it came her greatest creation - the Peter Rabbit stories.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Presented by Robert Williams
Tommy Steele , who celebrates 21 years in showbusiness this month, looks back at some of the highlights of those years. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
New stories about the characters created by A. j. CRONIN
The Daftie by DONALD BULL Producer
EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
by F.W. Willetts
[Starring] Timothy Bateson
with Christopher Asante
'Why don't you go out and do something with your life? You only live once. When you're old like me it's too late. I know!... I felt it so keenly. The waste of it. Of having been given this marvellous thing called life and the chance to see the world as a paradise, and I had turned my back on it. I have done a terrible thing. A terrible, terrible thing.'
Presented by Anthony Smith Britain is perhaps the best country in the world in which to be a bird - we are not a nation of bird bashers. Could there be however a backlash against the bird protection laws? Anthony Smith argues that the protectors are engendering alienation among bird-lovers.
Presenter Tony Palmer Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Douglas Stuart reporting
People in the public mind
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. TRAVEN abridged for radio in 15 episodes by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Peter Marinker (1)
Three men risk their lives in a search for gold in the Mexican desert. They strike lucky and work feverishly to amass a fortune. There are attacks by bandits; there is the ordeal of the sun. But despite these torments they discover that the deadliest enemy of all lies within each of them.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
