A regional view of farming in the week ahead. Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES
4.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Brian Redhead and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day BISHOP GEORGE APPLETON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON abridged in five parts by NEVILLE TELLER Read by Iain Cuthbertson (1)
' My name is Cassilis - Frank Cassilis. I lead the life of a vagabond for my own good pleasure. I am one of Northmour's oldest friends: and three nights ago,whenIaddressed him on these links, he stabbed me in the shoulder with a knife. I have not many friends. nor am I very susceptible to friendship; but no man shall drive me from a place by terror.'
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of the coming week. Producer SALLY THOMPSON
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NEM, p 21; Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts (BBC HB 323); Psalm 15; Jonah 1, vv 1-16 (NEB); Thy kingdom come, on bended knee (BBC HB 28)
by F. TENNYSON JESSE
Read by JUNE BARRIE (11) long wave only
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Had the People Who are Gone
ALEXANDER CARMICHAEL. Who died in 1912 at the age of 80, was an Excise Officer who devoted 50 years of his life to collecting the songs,poemsandlegends of the people of the nigh-lands and isjands of North West Scotland.
Today, for the Islanders, the five volumes of his collected works seem to recall a golden age of words and music. But for the benevolent man wandering among their forebears that Golden Age was already passing. and FLORA MACNEIL , KENNA CAMPBELL , EVELYN CAMPBELL , PAUL MCINNES and CALUM Ross as the people of the Islands Compiled by MICHAEL OLIVER
Producer PATRICIA ERENT (Repeated: Tuesday 7.20) long wave only
An invitation to choose a law ripe for repeal. Producer PAT TAYLOR BBC Birmingham long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers, including Job News with MARGARET KORVING , and World of Work with ideas on careers and training. Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breekon
Editor DAVID HARDING
A general knowledge contest between schools First Round
5: West of England
Bishop Fox's Girls' School Taunton v
The King's School, Ottery St Mary
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
Questions set by ROY SMITH and PAUL LIVESEY Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30)
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Presenter Brian Widlakc
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Could You Be a Con-man's Victim?: JENNIFER MAY talks to an elderly widow who was, and gets advice from a Crime Prevention Officer.
Reading your Letters.
Dordogne Diary: ANNETTE MASSIE recounts the events of her new life in South-west France.
Christmas Presents to Make: suggestions from LAVE ANDREW.
1: Framing Pictures.
Cashing In: JEREMY HANLEY advises on the financial considerations of widowhood and retirement.
Look Back with Mixed Feelings by DODIE SMITH Read by PATRICIA ROUTLEDCE (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Story:
The Wobble in the Wheel by ANNE WELLINGTON
Say it Again Sam by AUBREY WOODS
Country Wife by JANET L. MAY
Read by William Eedle
I am looking for my husband. He has not sent me any money since his last time home. Sometimes he paid someone to write to me and I would get the school teacher to read it for me, It is nearly 11 months since I heard from him.' Producer MITCH RAPER
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author and With MICHAEL MCCLAIN FIONA MATHIESON and GARARD GREEN as The Major
Book 3, Chapter 41 The Flat
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repealed: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.40)
Presented by Geoff Watts A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
Grass Roots by JOE ASHTON
Dramatised for radio by STEPHEN WARELAM
Politics Is us, the workers. Us who are always the ones to get the dirty end of the stick. It is always us who are expected to put up with low wages, lousy schools, poor pensions, ancient hospitals and the rotten monotonous jobs. And it is always them who will tell us what to do.'
Other parts played by KEITH CLIFFORD
DAVID FLEESHMAN ANDREW JARVIS JOHN MCGREGOR
KENNETH ALAN TAYLOR Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC
Manchester.
John Ebdon offers some more oblique reflections on present day life in the Greek Islands
Presenter
Waldemar Januszczak Producer ROB WHITE
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
An Integrated Man by JULIA STRACHEY , abridged in ten parts by MADGE HART Read by Timothy West (1) 'He stared sadly at the valley below him. It was a mirage.... shining through leagues of air burning with sunlight, and he an exile, fallen, and barred outside.
* There lay a summer dream. But here sat a schoolmaster, merely thinking of another man's wife.' Anyone who can proudly proclaim himself ' an integrated man ' forgets that the gods may overhear — and put him to the test. Producer DAVID JOHNSTON long wave only
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by Schubert, Mozart,Haydn AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by EDO DE WAART SANDRA DUGDALE (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
