Market prices and intelligence, the weather, and what's new for farmers. Producers KEN POLLOCK and LESLIE COTTINGTON
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald PriesUand
6.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
7.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
From the world of sport and leisure Tony Lewis presents a magazine programme that highlights the personalities in the news and the issues that matter, including today's sixth round of the FA Cup. Plus up-to-the-minute coverage of the other events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and ob production
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With Iran's new leaders calling for an Islamic republic, a report on how the Koran affects the lives of people and the style of government there and in many other countries.
Presented by the BBC's Middle East Correspondent, Tim Llewellyn
A Radio News production by RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER long wave only
(Arabs and the Iranian Revolution: Thursday
8.40 pm Radio 3)
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Robert Carvel
Producer PETER ROBINS long wave only
Anthony Howard reviews the weekly magazines
Producer WALTER WALLICH long wave only
New Every Morning, page 9; Awake, my soul, and with the sun (BBC He 403); Canticle 6, part 1; Ecclesiasticus 39, vv 12-21 (RSV); Praise, 0 praise our God (BBC HB 441)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON long wave only from 11.15
The last of a series of six programmes compiled and presented by the poet Seamus Heaney
Producer ALEC REID
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' I was watching a cormorant struggling to swallow a large dab but the bird got the fish firmly stuck half-way down his throat. Why didn't he choke?'
The team calmly digests some more of your wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol [Postcode removed]
(Repeated' Mon 10.5 am) Book, Bird Sounds and Their Meaning £4.95, Record £3.24, from bookshops long wave only
Fritz Spiegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said. BBC Manchester
Andy Price makes life cheaper and easier for all the family with the help of Ann Brown and the You and Yours team of experts.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren Richard Ingrams Douglas Stuart and Anne Leslie
Newsreader JOHN MARSH
Compiled and produced by DANNY GREENSTONE and ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Lord Willis Gillian Reynolds
John Selwyn Gummer Richard Gordon
Chairman David Jacobs from Claverdon, Warwickshire
Producer CAROLE STONE
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Frank Delaney introduces the magazine programme about the books you read, borrow and buy, both new and old, from classics to comics.
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Sun 11.15 pm) long wave only
The Dartist by ANDREW LYNCH
' We had our liver and onions. The baby was asleep. I sat in my chair and Brenda in hers and it frightened me to realise how boring we had become. My mind drifted back to the old days when I was taking money from suckers, but now there was another dartist in town and I couldn't help wondering what he was like....' =
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
(Postponed from 14 Dee 1978) long wave only
Presenter Marilyn Alan
With the participation of the disabled themselves, Does He Take Sugar seeks to give practical advice to disabled listeners in all relevant fields: welfare, finance, mobility and work and leisure. Editor MARLENE PEASE long wave only
Five programmes on the impact of white ' civilisation ' on native cultures. 5: A Great War in Miniature
The Tasmanian and Maori wars written by JAMES MCNEISH Narrated by Trader Faulkner
' We make no pompous display of philanthropy. We say unequivocally " The government must remove the natives - if not, they will be hunted down like wild beasts and destroyed."'
With RONALD HERDMAN , NIGEL ANTHONY , PETER MAR -INKER, DENIS MCCARTHY , JOHN RYE, ANTHONY SMEE and CAROLE BOYD
Producer JOHN SCOTNEY
(First broadcast in 1975) long wave only
We all have niggling little questions in the corners of our minds that we mean to follow up some day.... when we have the time. Now you can unload your query onto Nell Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Questions, on postcards, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London WIA 4WW long wave only
Best seller? Box-office success? Top of the charts? Top of the ratings?
Richard Cork introduces a selection from the books, films, plays, music and other arts reviewed during the past week.
Editor ROSEMARY HART long wave only
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5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
in conversation with his guests.
; Musicalaccompanimentby 1 INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on records: the mixture leavened occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
by Len Rush
Cattie Flanagan ran a lodging house for the Irish immigrants who fled from the famine to create the new Victorian Liverpool. As the villas they built mushroomed round the city she became aware of another booming development of the period... life insurance.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Mon at 3.5pm)
J. H. B. Peel talks about life today in the land of Lorna Doone.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Desmond Morris presents his personal choice of poetry and prose, with readings by Freddie Jones and Brenda Kaye
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Evening prayers conducted by JOHN STUART ROBERTS BBC Wales
In a series of nine programmes Jeremy Slepmann follows the colourful progress of the piano from the palaces of 18th-century Europe to the saloons of the Wild West.
In which the piano comes of age in the salons of the aristocracy. Liszt and Chopin make their mark and the concert business grows apace.
Records
followed by an interlude
A series of plays for late-night listening.
Vacant Possession by JOHN WILKIE
Harry has torn down his ancient cottage to make way for a modern bungalow for himself and Alison. But the cottage comes back to haunt them....
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Weather report; forecast , followed by an interlude
