News, weather, papers, sport
Presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER.
Producer DAVID MORTON
A regional view of farming In the week ahead, BBC Bristol
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world.
Introduced by Brian Redhead With LIBBY PURVES including at
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
Moira Stuart looks ahead to the highlights of the next seven days.
reflects on people, places and things, as they were, and how they are, with the help of BBC Sound Archives.
'This week: The Sun
(Repeated: Thursday at 8.30)
The programme that takes its own particular look at some of the issues and personalities of the forthcoming week.
Studio guests join the regular team for 55 minutes of live interviews, argument, music and mild irreverence.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
' Can you tell me why crabs walk sideways? Is it connected with the position of the eyes? ' The team take a sideways look at this and other wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer MOIRA MANN BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR
NEM, p 46: He wants not friends that hath thv love (BBC HB 245); Psalm 32; Luke 4, vv 31-44 (NEB); I heard the voice of Jesus say (BBC HB 143)
The Ornithologists by THOMAS I.ERWILL
Read by David March
' He put his foot against the cocktail cabinet and gently pushed it. It rolled to the edge of the cliff, swayed thoughtfully, then crashed down into the sea '
Producer MITCH RAPER
A look behind the scenes
Your guide is Brian Johnston
News and information that affects the way you live.
Including today - The World of Work with MARGARET KORVING Presenters Bill Breckon and Nancy Wise
Editor DENNIS LOWER
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson Second Round
20: West of England
INGRAM WILCOX (Bath), illustrator; ANTHONY HURMAN (Gloucestershire), civil servant; MICHAEL GEORGE (Devonshire), mineralogist; ARTHUR HOLLOWAY (Devonshire), retired civil servant
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , who, With IAN GILLIES , set the questions. Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Presented by Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two: In 1977, 105 people died on British farms, 25 of them were children. JOHN WEEKS and BERT HAZELL discuss the hidden dangers of a day on the farm.
2.0-2.2 News
Cool Drinks for Warm Days - 1." Thirst-quenching suggestions from PAMELA VANDYKE PRICE.
Mike Sheils in America ... With FR BRUCE RITTER who helps ' rescue ' some of New York's child prostitutes.
Standby Careers -1: MARGARET KORVING suggests second, third and even fourth choices for school leavers who are good at crafts.
Now Barabbas Was a Rotter by BRIAN MASTERS
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK (9) Editor >vyn KNOWLES
Story: The Brown Bunnies with Pink Ears by JEAN SUTCLIFFE
The Trains Don't Stop Here Any More by VICTOR PEMBERTON
The Story of Ragged Robyn by OLIVER ONIONS abridged in ten parts by BRIAN GEAR
Read by Geoffrey Beevers (1)
The Prince of Withernsea was dead. And in her pocket the Prince's Royal Mother kept a stone that after seven years she turned and spat on, but always threw in the end. This was the shadow under which young Robyn now had to live his life.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Preview: page 12
The news magazine presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
Alexander Frater goes to the Archive Auction.
An imaginary sale of the BBC's Sound Archives attracts ALEXANDER FRATER to browse through the catalogue and choose the recordings he would most like to own.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report
starring Bryan Pringle
A comedy serial in eight episodes by ANDREW LYNCH 7: The Path to Glory with Brian Wilde
Wilf's big moment is imminent, but Greasy Maurice has arranged his transport to London for the Grand Finals.
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people. Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, and adapted for radio in two parts by William Ash
With David Timson, Sarah Badel and Stephen Murray
Prince Myshkin, returning home to Russia after convalescing in Switzerland, is deeply moved by the beauty of the infamous Nastasya. Such beauty, he feels, can save the world! But in that face he also reads great suffering and he fears a world that can create such pain. These are the two extremes that Myshkin struggles to comprehend.
(Part 2: Next Monday)
The Dean of St Paul 's talks about women priests, and Ronald Higgins about the spiritual aspect of ecology, in a review of recent religious books.
Presented by Robert Foxeroft Producer MONICA FURLONG
(Repeated: Thursdau 11.45 am)
Gerald Priestland reports on today's proceedings at the General Synod of the Church of England.
Presented by Michael Oliver Producer CARROLL MOORS
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Churches - Capsules of History In towns and villages throughout Britain, many hundreds of churches of all denominations and of all ages stand empty and redundant. It is estimated that half of them may be of major archaeological significance. Recent excavations of redundant churches and their graveyards have been able to add a great deal of information and understanding to the social history of an area.
Presented by John Hedges and Dr Richard Morris Producer RQY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
The Secret Agent by JOSEPH CONRAD (6)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
