Presented from the North by KEN FORD
A regional view of farming in the week ahead BBC Manchester t.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Brian Redhead in London and John Timpson in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia for the 14th Anniversary of the UDI breakaway by the Smith regime.
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With 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
with Christopher Slade
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives.
The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of the coming week. Producer
HUMPHREY WALWYN
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NEM, p 118; As pants the hart (BBC HB 451); Psalm 91. vv 1-13, Genesis 12, vv 1, 5 and 13, vv 5-17 (AV); Who would true valour see (BBC HB 371)
by JOHN BUCHAN
Read by TOM FLEMING (6) Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol long wave only
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'Stuck ' is a mutant fruit fly who comes to -a sticky end during mating, a fate his name graphically describes. Such defects can arise in living creatures from the slightest imbalance of genes, and may disrupt not only courtship and mating; but. the basic rhythm of life itself, the biological clock.'
Neurobiologists Dr Jeff Hall and Dr Bambos Kyri acou of Brandeis University, Boston, discuss with Peter Evans how their work on Stuck and other mutants has allowed unique insights into normal behaviour, and led them to ask - ' what makes the fruit fly tick?'
Producer NEIL PEMBERTON (Repeated: Tues 7.20 pm) long wave only
An invitation to choose a law ripe for repeal. Producer PAT TAYLOR BBC Birminnham long wave only
including Job News with MARGARET KORVING , and World of Work with ideas on careers and training. Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DAVID HARDING
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A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Second Round
9: Scotland Peterhead Academy v Northern Ireland Rathmore Grammar School, Belfast Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
Questions set by ROY SMITH and PAUL LIVESEY
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas....
Cookery Books for Christmas: chosen by LYN MAC-
DONALD. (Tuesday Call on Cooking for Christmas: Tues 9.5 am)
Reading Your Letters.
A'Fair Copy? : BOB PRIZE-MAN finds out how pirates. profit from other people's music.'
The Age of Innocence by EDITH WHARTON Read by - DANIEL MASSEY (10)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long leave only
Story: Finding a Key by LEILA BERG
A Swim Off the Island by WILLIAM FOX starring
Christopher Bidmead and Rosalind Shanks with Jack May Salidor Eles and William Fox
'Extract from diary, 1 June: Who is Carrington-Blake? It's the sort of name one seems to have heard of or read about, but when one tries to decide where or when, nothing suggests itself. The name has been cropping up both last night and this morning.'
Directed by IAN COTTERELL (First broadcast in 1976)
Knight of the Papal Order of the Golden Spur by MAGGIE ROSS
Bead by Gerald Cross
'It was no use questioning him directly about his past, "I've always been a gambler," he would say. "And now I'm a tired old man.... But not too tired for a glass of Madeira and a few oysters taken beside a cheerful fire.'
Producer MITCH RAPIR
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A series of six comedy plays by JILL HYEM and JENNIFER PHILLIPS with 2: Mother's Day
Alistair Proudfoot has settled into the top floor flat at Rita and Phoebe's house. It is Mother's Day - an event towards which Phoebe and Alistair have very different attitudes. But not as different as their mothers' attitudes to them.
Mrs Proudfoot
MARGOT BOYD
Directed by CLYN DEARMAN (Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts presents a report from last week's conference on the brain sciences, held in Atlanta, Georgia.
Producer DAVID PATERSON
Occupational Hatard by BERNARD KRICHEFSKI with Glynis Brooks as Maggie and Zia Moyheddin as Mr Patel
'.... I got uptight over a case - too involved. OK? I wasn't ready for it. I felt bruised. I still feel bruised. I had to watch a sad little family being broken apart-just like that ... And I couldn't cope with my own guilt.'
Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT
A selection from the diaries of The Rev Francis Kilvert , who died 100 years ago this year, reflecting the seasonal variations of his beloved countryside.
Compiled and introduced by H. Colin Davis with readings by David Davis 4: Winter
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
The Rt Hon The Lord Mayer of London proposes the toast of Her Majesty's Ministers. The Prime Minister
The Rt lion Margaret Thatcher , MP, replies. Scene described by Don Mosey from Guildhall, London
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Nightmare Abbey (6) long wave only
long wave only
The BBC Guide to Parliament, £4.50, available from bookshops
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
