A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES BBC Wales
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only

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 COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

by the Labour Party

Throughout the General Election campaign, you can put your questions live by telephone to leading politicians. As the campaign progresses, you can raise the issues you feel are the most important.
Ring Robin Day to put your questions to the Conservatives on their policies and their views of the other parties' policies.
Producers WALTER WALLICH and JOCK GALLAGHER Editor BERNARD TATE
Lines are open from 8.0 am

nem, p 1; Father. 0 hear us (BBC HB 260); Psalm 3; 1 Peter 1, v 17 to 2, y 3 (NEB); Holy, holy, holy (BBC HB169)

The Bottomless Pit by OLIVE JEFFREY
Read by Elizabeth Proud ' Two people dominated my early life; my grand-father and Mr Jones. One was a good man, the other was wicked.'
Producer MITCH RAPER

Four programmes about how society and individuals have been trying to help underprivileged children.
3: The Barnardo Family Janet Hitchman. herself an ex-Barnardo girl, looks into the history of the Dr Barnardo Home and examines how the organisation has managed to come to terms with the enormous social and political changes since its foundation.
Producer ALEC REID

Story: The Little Yellow Taxi by RUTH AINSWORTH

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 9: Midlands (1)
PETER HERMAN School-master (Birmingham); JEAN CALDER Secretary (Leicestershire); RICHARD CUMBERLAND Pharmacist (Nottinghamshire): ALAN b. LARK , RAf Retired (Norfolk)
Includng 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) (Robert Robinson's neio series of Ask the Family: tonight 7.0 BBC1)
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and voices and topics In and behind the headlines Presented by Brian Widlake Editor
DEREK LEWIS

1.55 Shipping forecast Ions wave only

'England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.'
Woman's Hour celebrates St George's Day and, with the help of anglophiles ANNA RAEBURN and ARTHUR MARSHALL , adopted son CHRIS CVIIC , and a few others, reflects on the Englishandtheirland.
Welshwoman June Knox-Mawer helps keep order, while half-Scots JANET THOMAS produces.
Dig a Little Deeper (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES

Peace Games by MIKE WALKER

The Europeans by HENRY JAMES abridged in ten parts by BETTY COCKING Read by Gavin Campbell (1)
The ordered world of the Wentworths is disarrayed when their European cousins arrive in New England.
Henry James wrote a further 16 novels after The Europeans but this early work has been described as ' a master-piece of major quality '. Producer GRAHAM GAULD

The news magazine Presented by Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
1.65 Weather; programme news

including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.

The former radio show
Lesson 38: Is Britain Going the Burkiss Way? (Part 2), starring Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett, Fred Harris
Written by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK
Producer DAVID HATCH
(Stereo)

(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)

by Sally Rena, dramatised for radio by Simon Brett

"I have the only job in the world which finishes here tonight if you stay with me. I can't get up tomorrow and go on with it." Fr James is a young Catholic priest, recently appointed to a small parish on the West Coast of Scotland. Meriel is one of his parishioners, a beautiful young girl desperate to escape from her isolated life and find emotional fulfilment, They are drawn together, at first only spiritually....

(Rptd: next Sun at 2.30)

'There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.' (Robert Greene)

Michael Oliver makes a merry progress unto the Bankside in the Parish of St Mary Overie. It was here that William Shakespeare lived and worked, both as an actor and playmaker, and it was here, a quarter-of-a-mile to the west of London Bridge and 150 yards south of the River Thames, that the world's most famous playhouse - the great Globe itself - first opened its doors in 1599. Today, a few hundred yards away in the Bear Garden, a new theatre for Shakespeare - the Cockpit Playhouse - is a growing hope.
Among those also making the progress are JOHN MORTIMER, BERNARD MILES, SIR JOHN GIELGUD, C. WALTER HODGES, ARTHUR OBANBLER, A. C. GIMSON and 'WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'

9.59 Weather

Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNK

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.
Sir Denis Hamilton , of Times Newspapers Ltd. talks about some of the changes in the newspaper industry.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

by Ivan Turgenev
Read by Lewis Fiander
Translated by Richard Freeborn

'Hunting with a gun and a dog is a delight in itself, but let us suppose that you are not a born hunter though you still love nature; in that case, you can hardly fail to envy the lot of your brother hunters.'

(long wave only)

Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only

Extracts from the day's major speeches recorded at campaign meetings. Presented by John Hosken

Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude