Market prices and intelligence, the weather, and what's new for farmers. Producers LES COTTINGTON HERBERT DAYBELL and BRYAN PLATT
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland
6.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.4t 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 the final Saturday of League football, the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final, International tennis, and the 2,000 Guineas.
Plus up-to-the-minute coverage of the other events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and ob production
8.45 Today's Papers
in which Malcolm Billings goes fishing for trout on the River Kennet.
(Shortened repeat. First broadcast in 1977)
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The Campaigners
In the United States it's razzmatazz while in some eastern bloc countries a leader can get a
99.99 per cent vote in his favour. With Britain's General Election campaign now concluded, a look at how election campaigns are conducted around the world.
A Radio News production by RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER (Postponed from 2S April) long wave only
For the winner of the race to Downing Street the Election may be over. but the business of forming a new government and tackling the problems discussed during the campaign is just beginning.
Matthew Coady talks about what happens next with The Rt Hon Peter Shore Norman St John Stevas and Lady Seear
The winner of the Destination Downing Street Election results competition is announced.
Producer ALAN MACDONALD long wave only
Simon Jenkins reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER WALLICH long wave only
NEM, p 54; 0 Holy Ghost, thy people bless (BBC HB 156); Psalm 48; Galatians 5, w 13-25 (NEB); 0 Spirit of the living God (BBC HB 159)
Margaret Howard presents her selection.
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First Impressions
The poet Charles Causley presents the first of two selections of the poetry which fired his imagination in his formative years.
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In this magazine edition - tails and the uses made of them - floodlighting and its effects on wild animals - the mystery sound competition - and an admission about migratory frogs, Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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Phil Smith takes a whimsical look at life. BBC Manchester
Andy Price makes life cheaper and easier for all the family with the help of Anne 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 Bridget Rowe Henry Kelly
Newsreader JOHN MARSH
Compiled and produced by ALAN NIXON and DANNY GREENSTONE
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John Cole
Arianna Stassinopoulos Tom Jackson
John Greenborough
Chairman David Jacobs from Ramsgate
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Frank Delaney introduces the magazine programme about books.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Alice by KAY MCMANUS with Thelma Whiteley
Plans - they're what Alice always lacked. Things happened to her and although she married and had children, nothing worked out as she had hoped. She ends up as a rather batty old lady, living in an isolated cottage on the Yorkshire moorss and the despair of her family. But an unexpected contact brings her fresh expectations.
Directed by JANE MORGAN 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. Editor MARLENE TEASE long wave only
The last of eight programmes
The guests in today's programme, which was recorded at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, are the Pontarddulais Male Choir, conductor NOEL DAVIES , accompanist ERIC JONES. They include music by Daniel Protheroe , William Mathias , Randall Thompson and also spirituals. Presented by John Huw Davies
Written by JEN POSTON Producer
HUW TREGELLES WILLIAMS BBC Wales long wave only
Geoffrey Smith talks to Ken Ford about the week in his and your garden.
Producer KEN FORD BBC
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Sheridan Morley introduces a selection from the books, films, plays, music and other arts reviewed during the past week.
Editor ROSEMARY HART long tcave only
Sheridan Morley on Films: page 23
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and his guests in conversation inspired by amusing or bemusing episodes of the week. Musical interludes by PETER SKELLERN
Producer HUGH PURCELL
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
(Rev rpt: Friday 9.5 am)
by Frederick Bradnum
with Ian Holm and Jack May
'I know the English are good at concealing their feelings, but you can't really be so cold-blooded about your wife's death as you seem. Can you, sir?' However,- no one did care much about Julia's death...
(First broadcast in 1977)
Derek Cooper travels around the coastline to visit just a few of the 1,000-plus inhabited islands that make up the British Isles. 2: Eriskay
'We live a life that's physically tough. The gales, the raki, the wind ... these are great things: they naturally cleanse.'
On a tiny strip of land only three miles long, the islanders of Eriskay, in the Outer Hebrides, dive in a tight-kndt community under the guidance of their Catholic priest, and buffeted by the Atlantic weather.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Evening prayers led by THE REV RALPH SMITH BBC Scotland
A nine-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann follows the changing fortunes of the orchestra. 3: The Pit and the Pendulum
He looks at the changing role of the orchestra in opera and finds that the drama is seldom confined to the stage.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records
A series of plays for late-night listening
The Enemy in the Garden by JOAN O'CONNOR
'This place has never accepted Martha. She's a New Englander - but she's a Yankee
The American Civil War, a divided country and a divided family.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude