News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
Presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead and Hugh Sykes including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day BISHOP GEORGE APPI.ETON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45" Thought for the Day
Further episodes from the life and times of Simon Crisp.
6: Resolutions
The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of the forthcoming week.
Studio guests join Mavis Nicholson, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl for an unpredictable 55 minutes of argument, humour and some music, all of which is intended to start your week off in fine style.
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nem, p 62; Praise ye the Lord. ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 280); Psalm 25, vv 1-10; Wisdom of Solomon 1, vv 1-2, 12-15 (rsv); The God of Abraham praise (BBC HB 283)
Pagan Laughter bVBUTTYJENNINGS
Read by Irene Sutcliffe
' She stooped to pull up a weed and I noticed for the first time what she was wearing. In those days it was not so usual to see women in trousers, certainly not at her age. They were baggy at the knees and as she bent, the sloppy old jumper parted company from them at the waist. I was a little shocked.'
Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
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Story: Miss Peabody and the Spring Cleaning by BARBARA WILLIAMS long wave only
including MARGARET KORV-
ING'S World of Work with ideas on careers and training and a selection of current job vacancies around the country. with Molly Price-Owen and Andy Price
Editor DAVID HARRDING
A general knowledge contest.
First Round: Wales Cynffig Comprehensive School, Bridgend v Barry Boys' Comprehensive School
Questionmasters, Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Repeated:Thurs 6.30 pm)
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One: News
Presenter Brian Widlake
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with Jill Cochrane
Knock - For Miracles: MAEVE BINCHY recently visited this small town in Co Mayo, a centre of pilgrimage since a reported heavenly vision 100 years ago.
Reading Your Letters.
I Don't Know What I'd Do ...: DAVID SIMMONS finds out how best to cope with a heart attack.
Patterns of Stillness: CHRISTINE HEWITT finds quiet in the city.
A School for Many Nations: TIM RICHARDS Visits Atlantic College on the Welsh coast.
A Pause for Breath by EDITH REVELEY abridged in 11 parts and read by MONICA GREY (5) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Sins of the Father
(BroadcastSat8.30 pm)
All Done from Memory byOSBERTLANCASTER abridged in five parts by ELEANORRANSOME
Read by Michael Hordern 'In the years before 1914 the stucco, creamy and bright, gleamed softly beneath what seems in reminiscence to have been a perpetually cloudless sky. Geraniums in urns flanked each brass-enriched front door, while over the area railings moustachioed policemen made love to buxom cooks.'
Producer CLARE TAYLOR
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5.55 Weather; programme news
incuding Financial Report
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring
With EDWARD KELSEY Book 3 Chapter 1: The Leak
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Lyrics and music by NOËL coward, based on The Sleeping Prince by TERENCE RATTIGAN
Radio version by ALAN MELVILLE from the book of the Broadway musical by HARRY KURNITZ
London, June 1911 - just prior to and during the Coronation of hm George
V. Miss Mary Morgan, an American showgirl, is appearing in The Coconut Girl at the Shaftesbury Theatre. His Royal Highness, the Grand Duke Charles, Prince Regent of Carpathia, is staying at the Carpathian Legation. Two people, from very different worlds, who meat, briefly and magically , .
Customers of the Rose and Crown, Singers from The Coconut Girl, the audience at the Holborn Empire, Courtiers, Aides and members of the great British public:
JACQVEY CHAPPELL , RACHEL COOK , GORDON DULIEU, JANE EGAN , TAMMY USTINOV Musical director RICHARD HOLMES
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
(Edward Hardwicke is in ' Can You Hear Me at the Back? ' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)
A selection from the diaries of The Rev Francis Kilvert , who died 100 years ago this year.
Compiled and introduced by H. Colin Davis with readings by David Davis 3: Autumn
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Kilvert's Diary: Friday
8.0 pm BBC2)
Prix Italia
Paul Vaughan and Chris Dunkley report from this year's festival in Lecce, where international television and radio programme-makers gather to talk shop, compare notes, and compete for the most prestigious prizes in broadcasting. Producer DAVID PERRY
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The Drowned World by J. G. BALLARD abridged in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Alan Dobie (1)
After a series of solar storms, world temperatures steadily rise, melting ice-caps and returning the world to an earlier, more primitive state. This change in the environment is mirrored in the minds of some of the survivors.
Producer ALEC REID long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
The composers:
Liszt, Berlioz, Mozart The performers:
ANN MURRAY (meZZO-SOp) ANTONY SAUNDERS (piano)
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET MEMBERS OF THE
GOLDSBROUGH ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS (gramophone record)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
