Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON , HERBERT DAYBELL and BRYAN PLATT
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead and Hugh Sykes including at
6.45*Prayer for the Day THE REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
7: Dangerous Living
Health and Fitness
My husband's getting bit paunchy - should put him on a diet? How can you keep fit if you hate exercise? I love fatty foods although I'm quite slim - are they dangerous? I'm 40 and I want to take up tennis-are there any risks?
Put your questions on keeping fit and healthy to Elisabeth Morse of the British Nutrition Foundation, and Dr Archie Young of the Oxford Rehabilitation Research Unit. Sue MacGregor is in the Chair
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines are open from 8.0am long wave only
long wave only
A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting selected and presented by Francis Matthews
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham long wave only
NEM, p 71; The Church of God a kingdom is (BBC HB 183); Psalm 145, vv 1-13; Wisdom of Solomon 1. v 16 and 2 VV
1.3, 21-24 (rsv); Before the Almighty Father s throne (BBC HB 452)
For Sale: £10.00 by NIGEL POWELL
Read by William Eedle long wave only
A Personal Problem by ANNE FRANCIS
Life in suburbia has its stresses and strains, but there are usually one or two kind people who are willing to help with the little domestic crises that can occasionally occur. However, Barbara and Dominic Holt , new to the neighbourhood, seem to demand a little too much from their good neighbours.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester long wave only
Tim Sebastian , the BBC's Correspondent in Eastern Europe, talks about a summer of travel around his parish - from Warsaw to East Berlin, to Budapest, right around Poland to Belgrade and back to a transit lounge in East Berlin en route for Ankara.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE long wave only
Story: Buried Treasure by LAWRENCE JAMES long wave only
Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
' A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go ...': facts and fancies about frogs, with HELEN PALMER.
Wider Opportunities for Women ... : JUDY GRAHAM finds out about the new training courses for women wanting to return to work.
A Pause for Breath (6) long wave only
Jeanine McMullen dispels the romantic myths of rural life with practical advice for smallholders, ideas on home food production. and tips from people, nationwide, who make ' a small country living ' work.
Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
bv HENRY JAMES , adapted in six partsbyBETTY DAVIKS with Maureen O'Brien Prunella Scales Ed Bishop
Part 4
Basil Ransom is determined to develop his acquaintance with Verena, much to Olive's chagrin. There is little she can do, however, except to rely on Verena's passion for the women's movement being equal to hers.
Other parts: LOLLY COCKERELL and EVA STUART Directed by KAY PATRICK
AU Done from Memory (2)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
'twixt
Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and Tim Rice
Lance Percival
Tune Twisters from Steve Race
In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER. Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
How World War II Looks to Young Europeans Now 4, Teaching the War
Today's schoolchildren have no personal knowledge of the war, and the information they receive from their grandparents and the mass media can be distorted.
Richard Mayne considers to what extent textbooks and classroom teaching - in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Yugoslavia - provide a corrective.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
A fresh look at the musical, presented by Denis Quilley with BLAIN FAIRMAN ALAN TILVERN and MARCELLA MARKHAM
9: Big Business or How Wall Street Gave Its Regards to Broadway - And Got Them Back with Interest. Written by AUSTAIR BEATON with additional material hy SARAH DUNANT
Producer MARTIN FISHER (Shortened repeat)
Dial directory enquiries in a few years' time, and the chances are that the voice at the other end will come not from a human being, but from a machine. And this mechanical utterance will he more than a collection of pre-recorded phrases. It will be a synthesis of the basic elements that make up human speech.
In the first of two programmes Peter Evans examines the technology of speech synthesis, and talks to some of the machines and the people who trained them.
Research DEBORAH COHEN Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Machines with Ears: 8 October 11.5 am)
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Douglas Stuart reporting
Requests the Pleasure of your company for listening to some of her favourite records.
The Drowned World (.2) long wave only
long wave only
Peter Clayton presents records
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
