Bryan Platt reviews the economic and political agricultural changes of 1977.
with Peter Jefferson
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Nigel Rees in London Michael Cooke in Manchester
with Peter Jefferson
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Michael Cooke in Manchester Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
by HENRY JAMES (4)
NEM, p 106; 0 Christ, Redeemer of our race (BBC HB 54); Psalm 95; Philippians 2, vv 1-11 (RSV); The holly and the ivy (Oxford Book of Carols 38)
Today's author is SAKI Brian Gear reads The Toys of Peace
Producer PAMELA howe BBC Bristol
A play by Stuart Jackman
with Kenneth Williams
HEROD: Wait my turn? Like Hell I will. Damn it, man, I'm Herod of Judea. I don't kick my heels in bloody ante-rooms waiting my turn. Now get out of my way and let me...
AZRAEL: Angela, love, I think it's going to be one of those days!
The folklore, the legend, the anecdote - with Cliff Morgan, Peter Robbins and Ian Robertson, in conversation with Don Mosey.
BBC Manchester
Presenter Sue Cook
Including the BBC Shopping Basket.
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Story: The Discontented Pig by olive DOVE
Presenters: NERYS HUCHES and TONY AITKEN. Written and produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
by Sheila Hodgson, based on an idea by M.R. James
with David March as James
"Do you want to look at the book, Paul? Take it! Hold it tight. It belonged to some very learned monks in the 9th century. They put a curse on it. Do you know what a curse is? Anyone who touches those pages will go mad! Slowly, of course. His brain will rot, he'll see horrible visions and finally..."
From cantors to crime-writers, Jack de Manio meets them all. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
The African Queen (4)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Fritz Spiegl 's A-Z of Musical Curios
L is for lyres, letters and laughter
Producer ANDREW mussett
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Written by KEITH MILES and BRIAN HAYLES
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm) Cast for the fortnight:
BBC Birmingham
What makes a prisoner of conscience? Very often it's an ordinary person in an extraordinary situation-imprisoned, often savagely tortured for no other reason than holding beliefs contrary to those of the regime in power. How do people survive this ordeal? How do they gain their inner strength? To find out the answers. Erik de Mauny has been talking to ex-prisoners of conscience from such countries as the Soviet Union, Chile, Uruguay. South Africa. Pakistan and Turkey. A chilling story told by those who have suffered.
Producer TONY HALL
You didn't go to a Myra Hess concert to hear Myra Hess , you went to hear music.
(JOYCE GRENFELL )
Carole Rusen presents a portrait of Dame Myra Hess , one of the best-loved pianists of her generation. She is helped by some of the artist's friends and associates, including SIR ADRIAN BOULT , HOWARD FERGUSON , JOYCE GRENFELL , DENIS MATTHEWS , STEPHEN BISHOP-KOVACEVICH and ANTONY CRAXTON. From the archives comes an interview "with Dame Myra herself, and musical illustrations are taken from her many records and include a recording of one of the famous National Gallery concerts.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER
Geoffrey Best. Professor of History in the School of European Studies, University of Sussex, continues his reflections on some notable modern attitudes to war and peace
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David Attenborough , Janet Adam-Smith and Professor John Carey discuss a selection of books which reflect the different ways people respond to places - including V. S. Naipaul on India. Henry Williamson in Somerset and a study of Odysseus' Greece.
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer DAVID PERRY
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Annals of The Parish by JOHN GALT
Read by BRYDEN MURDOCH (8)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
