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 onlu
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
Tony Lewis talks to the personalities and captures the atmosphere of Wembley on the morning of the FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Manchester United. He is joined by special guest Mick Mills who captained the Ipswich team that defeated Arsenal in last year's final.
Plus up-to-the-minute coverage of the other events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and OB production
John Motson writes on page 29
8.45 Today's Papers
John Turtle discovers a musical revival in the company of two fellow enthusiasts.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
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Return to Kolwezi
A report on Zaire a year after the rebel invasion. Presented by John Borrell
A Radio News production by RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER long wave only
This is the week when brand-new mps try for the first time to find their wav around the Palace of Westminster. What help do the ' new boys ' get from their more experienced colleagues? What do they hope to achieve in Parliament?
Christopher Jones has been comparing the freshmen of 1979 with the matured vintage of 1974. Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG long wave only
Anthony Howard reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER WALLICH long wave only
New Every Morning, page 79; 0 come, let us sing (BBC HB 465); Canticle 6, pt 2: John 6, vv 47-58 (RSV); Lead us, heavenly Father (BBC HB 307)
Margaret Howard presents her selection.
Producer NICK HUGHES
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First Impressions
The poet Charles Causley presents the second of two selections of the poetry which fired his imagination in his formative years.
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' How does an electric eel re-charge its batteries? Is a deaf robin unable to defend its territory? Why don't sea fish taste salty?
The team answers your wildlife questions. Introduced by Derek Jones. Producer
JOHN HARRISON. BBC' Bristol (Repeated: Mon 10.5 am) long wave only
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 Clive James Jonathan King Simon Jenkins and Valerie Jenkins
Newsreader JOHN MARSH
Compiled and produced by ALAN NIXON and DANNY GREENSTONE
(Rev rpt: Tuesday 10.30)
Barry Took writes on The 50s: page 84
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Lord Soper
Patrick Cosgrare Claire Rayner Lord Robens
Chairman David Jacobs
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 DENYS GUEROULT
by Ted Walker
Worcestershire in the 18th century. Ellen decides to take her dying husband Tom on a pilgrimage.
"Your ma's dead set. The doctor says nothing can save him-save a miracle." "I don't believe in miracles. Things of the past. A boiled onion, a kind word. That's what my father needs. Worth any amount of mumbo jumbo. The shrine of St Richard of Chichester! A man dead these hundreds of years."
BBC Bristol
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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
A second chance to hear a series of four programmes examining the relationship between the Church and the civil authorities.
1: Papal Politics
Trevor Beeson looks at Catholic Italy where Vatican policy meets Communist ideology. Series producer
JOHN WILKINS (Repeaf) long wave only
Geoffrey Smith talks to Ken Ford about the week in his and your garden.
Producer KEN FORD BBC
Manchester long wave only
Tony Palmer 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
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and his guests
Musical interlude by PETER SKEI.I.ERN
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)
The Defector by ERIC SAWARD
In spite of the death of Scrooge, my client still wishes to defect. But because of my friend's death, security must be much tighter. I will deal only with the agent Martin Shaw. I will meet him at 11.30 this morning at Brook Green, Hammer-smith, W6, to negotiate details of my client's defection.' Miser.
Directed by ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Mon 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
Derek Cooper travels around the coastline to visit just a few of the
1.000-plus inhabited islands that make up the British Isles. He talks to the islanders and reflects on lifestyles often very different from those experienced on the mainland.
3: The Isles of Scilly
' In the winter we do the flowers, in the summer we do the holidaymakers.' Dependence on tourism and flower-growing makes Scilly's fragile economy uncomfortably reliant on the weather and subsidies from the mainland.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Evening Prayers led by CANON JOHN SMITH , Who has recently returned from Lourdes. BBC Bristol
A nine-part series In which Jeremy Siepmann follows the changing fortunes of the orchestra and the society whose tastes it has always mirrored.
4: The Maestro
This week's instalment examines the rise of the conductor, encountering in the process a clamour of egos and an unfortunate accident. The music ranges from Lully to Stravinsky, and all of the stories are perfectly true. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records
by Ted Willis
'Of course it matters! This - this terrible thing. You need help, Philip. God - if this gets out, if a whisper of it gets out. Philip - what happened on that train - what did happen?'
(Mary Miller is a National Theatre player)
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
