News, weather, papers, sport
Presented from the North by KEN FORD
A regional view of farming in the week ahead. BBC Manchester
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
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV LESLIE STOKES
7.0, 8.4 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.3*. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by RICHARD HUGHES
Read by JOHN HOLLIS
6: Auction at Santa Lucia
Dr Rob Buckman. Mavis Nichel son and Kenneth Robinson , together with their guests in the studio, provide the incentive to face Monday morning once again as they discuss some of the forthcoming week's topical issues, interview some of the personalities who will be making the news. and try to keep their tongues firmly in their cheeks at least half the time. Producer tAN R. gardhouse
' Cuckoos are supposed to change their tune in June - but I heard one go berserk reaching notes right out of its register. Was this the call they use in Africa? '
The team answers your questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 25; The Son of God his glory hides (BBC HB 68); Psalm 27, part 1; Luke 16, vv 1-9 (NEB); Jesu, priceless treasure (BBC HB 518)
Heat Wave by JONATHON WYCHE Read by Anna Sharkey
1 You're welcome to spend your time in the garden. You could see all our nice neighbours behind their lace curtains - making sure they don't miss a thing. You don't have to see them - you can sense them.'
Producer MITCH RAPER
(Full details ; Thursday 7.45 pm)
Volunteer Week
'Never volunteer ' the saying runs. But this week the programme talks to some of the people who did just that, after last year's Volunteer Week. about the challenges and successes of the past 12 months. Also, The World of Work with MARGARET KORVING
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Editor JOHN TURTLE
Chairman Robert Robinson 29: Final
ARTHUR DOUCH (Kent), school-master; INGRAM WILCOX (Bath), illustrator; DR G. H. FREEMAN (Warwickshire), statistician: JAMES NESBITT (County Antrim), civil servant.
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 newt
Presented by Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Mike Sheils in America with the cowboys Of Montana. Reading Your Letters.
Living with Christopher: what's it like for a busy mother who also has to cope with a severely handicapped child? DIANA FLICK, mother of five, describes a day in her life.
Dr Wortle's School by ANTHONY TROLLOPE abridged by ELIZABETH BRADBURY Read by Tenniel Evans First of 13 instalments.
' Dr Wortle prided himself on having chosen well when he decided to employ Mr Peacocke as an usher in his school and Mrs Peacocke , an American from Louisiana, as matron. But why was there such a mystery about Mr Peacocke 's five years in America? And why do the Peacockes keep so much to themselves? '
(Music: Cherubini's First Sonata for horn and strings) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: A Noisy Afternoon by BARBARA MITCHELHILL
Michael Cochrane , Noel Johnson Anthony Newlands and Barbara Stea in A Pawn in the Game by DAVID MARTIN
WIFE: What's the matter?
HUSBAND: Something in the drive.
WIFE: Go and see
HUSBAND: It's a girl. She isn't moving. Bring a torch.
Directed by DAVID H. GODFREY
The Sword in the Stone by T. H. WHITE abridged in ten episodes by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by DAVID DAVIS (6)
The news magazine presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
by the Liberal Party
Frank Delaney browses through the BBC Sound Archives. Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
with Michael Robbins as Jack and Hugh Paddick as Leslie
The factory buzzes with rumours of impending cutbacks. And when Jack learns that brother Leslie is Chairman of the Redundancy Committee, then plainly it's time to show how industrious he is at work, and how housetrained he can be at home. But will Jack be able to keep up this pretence? With ELIZABETH MORGAN and DENIS BOND 8: Redundancy
Guest appearances by Reginald Marsh as the Managing Director George A. Cooper as the Shop Steward
Written by HAROLD SNOAD and MICHAEL KNOWLES Producer JOHN DYAS
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Play Donkey by STEWART CONN
' Why are you here? Why should it be necessary for you to come all the way from Edinburgh to defend a mercenary soldier accused of murder, arson and rape. in an emergent African state? Tell me that? '
Directed by GORDON EMSLIE BBC Scotland
A series of three programmes 1: Alun Richards
' I'm inescapably a Welshman but when I'm a writer, I'm a writer like any other writer ... Nationality is often a crutch for very weak writers.' ALUN Richards , novelist, short story writer, and playwright for stage and television, discusses his work with Joan Bakewell.
Producer MEIRION EDWARDS BBC Wales
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ALAN NIXON
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A Roman Villa in Tuscany
Probably the most important archaeological excavation in Italy at the moment is at Orbetello in Tuscany, where Professor Andrea Carandini , together with a team of British archaeologists under Tim Tatton-Brown . is investigating a large villa built about 80 Be. The style of this building and influence of its estate on the countryside is providing new information about the ' villa system '. Malcolm Billings reports from the site with the latest developments. Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Zorba the Greek by NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
Read by JOHN SHRAPNEL (11)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
