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A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from the South West by David Butler Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
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Presented by Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV LESLIE STOKES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.31, 8.30 News headlines
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A look ahead with Moira Stuart
continues his search in the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
When he and the regulars, Mavis Nicholson. Dr Rob Buckman and Kenneth Robinson , are among those helping to find antidotes to that Monday morning feeling as they talk to some of the personalities who will be making the news in the forthcoming week - and sometimes make the news themselves -in Radio 4's liveliest and most unpredictable talk show.
Producer ian r. gardhouse Kenneth Robinson 's Review: page 90
David Bedford on Red Cross work in Britain
NEM ,p 25; To Christ, the Prince of Peace (BBC HB 114); Psalm 27. pt 2; Luke 22, v 66 to 23, v 12 (IV); Praise to the holiest in the height (BBC HB 88)
Six talks by Bishop Michael Ramsey on the meaning of Holy Week.
Four programmes about how society and individuals have been trying to help underprivileged children.
I: Who was Pestalozzit compiled and narrated by Geoffrey Parkinson
In many respects Johann Heinrich Pistalozzi seemed like a madman. In his time few really understood him, yet he was destined to become one of the founding fathers of modern education. Why then do we know so little about this great and curious man of genius? with John Rowe Jill Balcon and Stephen Kemble also taking part:
Michael Heaffoid author of a book on Pestalozzi John Gale , Warden of the Pestalozzi Children's Village at Seddlescombe
Wynford Jones, Senior Tutor, Social Studies at Lewes Polytechnic and Dr Rhodes Boyson , MP Producer
CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(Repeated: Tuesday 8.0)
Story: The Rain That Went Up by C. E. ELLIS
News and information that affects the way you live.
Including today:
The World of Work
With MARGARET KORVING Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Editor JOHN TURTLE
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 7: London (1)
PHILIP STEVENS , Civil Servant (London): HUGHMER-RICK, Author and Translator (London); OLGA EVANS (London): JOHN KIRKBY, Retired Director (London)
Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN, GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
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Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
i Broadcast on Fri at 7.5)
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Introduced by June Knox -Mawer
Whatever You Think's Right, Vicar ....: wedding music can be trad or fad, or simply bad. BOB PRIZEMAN investigates. Reading Your Letters.
Encore: JACK DE MANIO meets again a guest from Jack de Manio Precisely. 4: MARGOT TRACEY , author. Advice from a Professional: ANNE MACNAMARA asks pianist HOWARD SHELLEY what to look for when buying a piano. The Pain by PAULINE SMITH abridged and read in two parts by Margaret Inglis (1)
All their married life of nearly 50 years Juriaan Van Royen and his wife Deltje had lived in the Aangenaam valley. For his wife Deltje, Juriaan's tenderness had increased with age. and lately, with her pain.
(Music: Kalinnikovs First Symphony)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Attard in Retirement hy JOHN PEACOCK
by John Bunyan, abridged in five parts and read by Geoffrey Beevers
'As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept I dreamed a dream...'
BBC Bristol
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The former radio show
Lesson 36: Rise from the Grave the Burkiss Way starring Jo Kendall
Nigel Rees , Chris Emmett Fred Harris
Written. by ANDREW MAR SHALL and DAVID RENWICK Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
BBC Correspondents .throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
by Joe Ashton, dramatised for radio by Stephen Wakelam
'Politics is us, the workers. Us who are always the ones to get the dirty end of the stick. It is always us who are expected to put up with low wages, lousy schools, poor pensions, ancient hospitals and the rotten monotonous jobs. And it is always them who will tell us what to do.'
BBC Manchester
(Rptd: Easter Day 1.39)
In the last of four programmes, Jack Body introduces some of the music he has recorded in Indonesia and describes various aspects of life there.
<: Unusual Music for Voices
A nightly review of books, films, plays. broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Olivier Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Anthony Howard reporting with voices and opinions from around the world. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
In tracing some of the political and social trends in Britain since the last war, George Scott talks to the people who were central to the most significant changes and invites them to view with the benefit of hindsight, their personal part in events.
George Martin , record producer, whose artists included The Beatles, talks about the development of pop music from the early days of rock and skiffle, to its present status as a multi-million pound industry.
Producer jock Gallagher BBC Birmingham
The King of the Barbareens (6) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude