Market prices and intelligence, the weather, and what's new for farmers.
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland
4.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Ken Ford with a weekly review of the agricultural scene.
BBC Manchester
7.48 Today's Papers
Norman Tozer with how to get best value for your hard-earned cash.
7.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presented by Tony Lewis
A magazine programme that looks at the world of sport and leisure.
Today highlighting the stories and personalities at Wimbledon on the sixth day of the championships, plus full coverage of other events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and OB production
8.59 Continental Travel Information
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The Billion Dollar Search With increasing pressure on oil supplies, the BBC's Science Correspondent, James Wilkinson , reports on the Americans' desperate search for new sources of energy.
A Radio News production by JOHN WILLIAMS long wave only
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Victor Knight
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Anthony Howard reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER WALLICH long wave only
NEM. p 9; All things bright and beautiful (BBC hb 3); Canticle 6, pt 1: Psalm 8, vv 1-9 (rsv); Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (BBC HB 17)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer Brian cook
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First Impressions
The poet Patricia Beer presents the second of two selections of the poetry which Bred her imagination in her formative years. Readers
John Franklvn Robbins Frances Horovitz
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
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' Having had a fledgling blackbird brought to me, I slipped it into the blackbird's nest in my garden and the mother bird accepted it without question. Is it usual for birds to accept foster chicks? '
Our team broods over your wildlife questions. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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Dr Hugh Mellor on Nationalism. ' A cancerous growth in the body of decent patriotism." BBC Manchester
Joan Bakewell is your radio travel agent with advice on where to go and how to cut the cost. Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD
For information sheets, send a large sae to: Away From It All, BBC, Portland Place, London [Postcode removed]
The antidote to panel games in which the ad libs of Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and William Rushton are not worth the paper they are written on.
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A spontaneous discussion by The Rt Hon Dame Judith Hart , mp Dr A. L. Rowse Charles Causley Chris Patten , mp
Chairman David Jacobs from Davidstow. Cornwall Producer caroi.e STONE
BBC Bristol
Listeners' uieus for use in Any Answers? on Thursday at 10.30, to Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol [Postcode removed]
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Archaeology in Israel
Malcolm Billings visits archaeological sites in Israel and reports on new discoveries found recently from the Golan to the southern deserts. Producer ROY hayward BBC Bristol
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A Slight Ache by HAROLD PINTER with Vivien Merchant and Michael Hordern
A perfect summer day. The whole garden in Sower. But Edward has a slight ache in his eyes and there is a match-seller at the garden gate.
Directed by GUYVAESEN
(First broadcast in 1970) long wave only
Does He Take Sugar? - a practical and topical magazine for and with disabled listeners.
Presenter Chris Mohr
Reporter Kevin MULHERN
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in: Monday 2.9-4.0 pm [number removed], ext 2531
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW Producer JANE wood Editor MARLENE PEASE long wave only
What Is your favourite music? Why does it move you and how did it sound to the listeners of its day? In the first of 13 programmes. John Amis explores one of his favourite pieces, Mozart's Jupiter Symphony. gramophone records
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by Anthony Smith
(Repeated: Tues 11.30 am)
Best seller? Box-office success? Top of the charts? Top of the ratings?
Sheridan Morley introduces a selection from the books, films, plays, music and other arts reviewed during the past week.
Editor ROSEMARY HART
Sheridan Morky 's Films: page 10
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5.55 Weather; programme news
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in conversation with his guests.
Musical interlude by INSTANT SUNSHINE
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
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25 years of BBC News: page 72
Present Laughter A light comedy by NOEL COWARD with Paul Scofield and Fenella Fielding Patricia Routledge Joy Parker and David Timson
' Every play you appear In Is exactly the same. You have a great followIng and a strong personality, and all you do with your talent is wear dressing-gowns and make witty remarks! .
A skilful cast, headed, surprisingly and very successfully by Paul Scofield , zipped along in elegant Style ... (THE GUARDIAN) Directed by IAN COTTERELL
(First broadcast in 1974) (The Life and Times of Sir Noël Coward. Radio 2 on Wednesday at 9.2 pm)
Professor Graham Ash -worth. Kenneth Roberts and Kathleen J. Smith in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer GILLIAN RUSH BBC Manchester
Evening thoughts and music, led by THE REV STEWART LAMONT BBC Scotland
Peter Ustinov reads extracts from his best-selling autobiography. Adapted in eight parts by JACK SINGLETON
2: I had a choice, said my parents, who couldn't afford either, between St Paul 's and Westminster Schools. The former wore straw hats, like Harold Lloyd : the latter, top hats like Fred Astaire. I opted for Westminster and Fred Astaire. '
Producer ROSEMARY hart
A series of plays for late-night listening
Squatter's Rights by JUDY ALLEN with and Phil returns from an evening's do-gooding. with some unexpected squatters. Her husband is prepared to be very magnanimous about the whole thing, until he finds how inconvenient life can be. Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
