News. weather, paper* and sport.
Presented from the South East by BRYAN PLATT
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ROSEMARY WAKELIN
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Moira Stuart
reflects on life in and out of the Sound Archives.
when he and the regulars. Mavis Nicholson , Dr Rob Buckman and Kenneth Robinson , wiU be 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 liveliest and most unpredictable talk show.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSK
1 I have heard that green-fly won't fly over mirrors and that you can protect a houseplant by keeping it on top of one. Can this' be true and, if so, why? '
The team reflects on some of your wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol long wave only
NEM. p 89; God is our refuge and our strength (BBC m 454); Psalm 118, vv 1-14; Matthew 6. w 1-15 (AV); Aid my hope on God is founded (BBC HB 299)
Wally and the Screamer by ANDY SMITH
Read by Jon Glover
' I'd been there about three weeks when it happened. I was sitting watching the box when I heard something. I heard someone laugh. At the top of those stairs.'
Producer MITCH RAPER
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Themas JOHN MYATT samples the season's strawberry crop in East Anglia and MOLLIE HARRIS goes butter-making in a 16th-century Oxfordshire farmhouse dairy. ERIC SIMMS visits part of London countryside, Holland Park, and MARTIN MUNCASTER finds ' a corner of a foreign field that is forever England
TIM HELEY has a story of summer in Wharfedale and KEITH ALLAN watches the hatching of the may-fly on a Hampshire chalk stream.
Producer JOHN HASLAM
(Repeated: Tues 8.0 pm) long wave only
Bird Sounds and Their Meaning: book £ 4.95, record £ 3.24. from bookshops
Story: Miss Tinytot and the Visitor by ZENNIA ESTERTON long wave only
Including Margaret Korving's World of Work with ideas on careers and training and a selection of current job vacancies around the country.
< For details see Thurs 6.30)
11.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: Opinions and ideas
The Joys of Hammer and Chisel: described by sculptress SUZANNE LACKNER at the age of 60.
It's Primarily a Question of Stress: PAUL ROCHE, as a poet, has his own views on pronunciation.
Chalk and Talk: DAVID HAWKSWORTH looks at some current educational issues.
North and South (4) by MRS GASKELL
Read by PRUNELLA SCALES
Editor WYN KNOWLES
(long wave only)
Weather in the Streets by ROSAMOND LEHMANN
Marriage by SUSAN FERRIER abridged in ten parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY Read by ANNA CALDER-MARSHALL (10) Producer PENNY GOLD
(Starting tomorrow : 'Stories of the Royal Navy ' by Bartinieus)
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Day Return by PHILIPPE MONNET with Stephen Murray Norma Ronald Keith Drinkel and Lolly Cockerell
The musician - son of an eminent academic visits his father and step-mother in their newly acquired country retreat. All should be set for a pleasant weekend, but father and son have not spoken for four years and the planned reconciliation proves hard to achieve.
Richard's guitar played by JOHN BULL Directed by BERNARD KRICHEFSKI
' Everything I did was to prove to others that being black and from the Docks didn't mean that one had to be written off '.
In 1973 Betty Campbell became Wales's first black headmistress. Born and brought up in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, she has never left the area and in this programme she reflects on the ' mixed ' society in which she has lived all her life.
Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer ANNE THEROUX
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
' That's the trick I think with writing. That's when you find yourself, when you scrape it all aside and are absolutely honest with self. and say: I don't care if this image is approved of or not. This is the way I am.'
Sue MacGregor talks to David Pownall who worked on the copper belt in Zambia and as a personnel officer in the motor industry before becoming a full-time novelist and Playwright, roducerGillianhush BBC Manchester
The Third Policeman (6) long wave only
long wave only
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
