A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from the South East by BRYAN PLATT
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead with MIKE WOOLDRIDGE
6.45* Prayer for the Day BISHOP GEORGE APPLETON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Episodes from the life and times of Simon Crisp Written and read by Christopher Matthew
1:The Great Audrey Hepburn Mystery
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
when he and the regulars, Esther Rantzen , Dr Rob Buckman and Kenneth Robinson , are 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's liveliest and most unpredictable talk show.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE long wave only
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' How do animals cross the railway lines on the electrified Southern Region of British Rail? Do they famble with their lives?
The team tackles another batch of your queries. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
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NEM, p 42: My God, I love thee (BBC HB 276); Psalm 98; Matthew 27, vv 27-44 (av); Lord of our life (BBC HB 179)
The Ghost Train by CLIVE RICHE
Read by Peter Craze Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
'Britain doesn't have a climate,' say the textbooks, it has weather.'. And every so often the weather springs a s.urprise - a long, hot summer brings drought, an arctic winter leaves a devastation of frozen So should Britain be spending billions of pounds on reservoirs, sea defences, insulation against the sort of disaster that occurs once in a decade? The economists' view may be different to that of the family facing the ruins of their home. And can anybody guess at: what the weather is going to do? Are we having a heat wave or is a new ice age just around the corner?
Jeremy Bugler report* Producer KAY EVANS
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As a special celebration for the International Year of the Child ALlSON
MCMORLAND and MICHAEL DEACON visit different parts of the world
Today: France
Story: Cinderella (traditional)
Re-told by MOIRA MILLER long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers, including Margaret Korving's World of Work with ideas on careers and training and a selection of current job vacancies around the country. Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Peterhead Academy v. Banff Academy
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
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Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guidelines to Retirement: GYN FREEMAN talks tO SUSANNA JOHNSTON , Education Director of Help the Aged. 1:The Home
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Reading Your Letters.
900 Years A-Growing: ANDY PRICE wanders through William the Conqueror's New Forest, and talks to the people who live there among the trees, flowers, deer and snakes.
Cashing In: JEREMY HAN-LEY -advises on how to cope il financial disasters strike. Sabrina by MADELAINE POLLAND abridged in 15 parts by ANN REES JONES
Read by JUNE TOBIN (15)
(Music: Bridge's Rose' mary)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Death on a Fourth Wednesday by JOAN SADLER
Flip by GEOFFREY MORGAN abridged in four parts by the author. Read by Peter Tuddenham (1) Young Jamie recognised that Flip, the seal pup he had saved from a lingering death, and nursed and fed, must now be given his freedom. It was right. But the parting was hard. Almost too hard to bear. It was hard for Flip too .
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
with Gordon Clough fend Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
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S.55 Weather; programme news
The antidote to panel games
Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willy Rushton take on Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden for the last time - Hurray!
Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton
Accompanied by COLIN SELL.
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
B B C Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Death is King by TANITH LEE with John Rye Jili Balcon
John Westbrook and Deborah Makepeace The year is 1340 and the Black Death is sweeping through Europe.
High on a hill, the Duke de Castel-Foret locks himself away in his castle in an attempt to defeat Death - but death can take many guises.
Narrators PHILIP VOSS
LEONARD FENTON CORDON DULIEU and the voices of MARGOT BOYD , ANDREW BRANCH . PETRA DAVIES ,
ADRIAN EGAN , LIZA FLANAGAN , MARTIN FRIEND , BRIAN HAINES , JOSIE KIDD , DANNY SCHILLER , DAVID STRONG , TAMMY USTINOV
Music by JOHN LEWIS played by the NEW LONDON CONSORT Musical adviser PHILIP PICKETT
Songs written and composed by the author Directed by KAY PATRICK
Gruffudd Parry is a writer and playwright. All his works have been published in the Welsh language but his working life has been spent teaching English to pupils at a secondary school in North Wales. In this programme he reflects on the influences a community and landscape have had on him.
Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales
Presented by Paul Gambaccini
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Paul's Preview: page 29
Erik de Mauny reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
(Stereo)
The Painter of Signs (6) long wave only
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A sequence of French music by Bizet, Ravel, Jannequin and Fauré.
MARGARET NEVILLE (soprano)
ERNEST LUSH (piano)
ROBERT SHERLAW JOHNSON (piano)
JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
MARIUS MAY (cello)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
