News, weather, paperi and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES BBC Wales
6.25 Shipping forecast lung wave only
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES Including at
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
A look ahead with Christopher Slade
dusts off some treasures from the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer SIMON ELMES
The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some or the topics and personalities of the coming week, Producer JILL FREEMAN
NEM, P 5; Father, who on man dost shower (BBC HB 389); Psalm 96: Matthew 22, vv 34-40 (AV); Behold, the mountain of the Lord I BBC HB 485)
Irene Thomas reads extracts from her recently published autobiography, abridged for radio in ten instalments by MOLLIE HARGREAVES (1)
'It is class rather than sex, money or football, which is the great British secret obsession. And almost all autobiographies are written from a class standpoint.'
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
Dr Garry Hunt of University College, London, talks to the space pioneers who have made the 1970s the Decade of the Planets.
People in the British Isles and abroad tell of the doings and concerns of their own part of the world - and those they visit.
News. views and advice for consumers. including Job News with MARGARET KORVING , and World of Work with Ideas on careers and training.
PresentersNancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DAVID HARDING
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A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Semi-Final
13: Scotland Peterhead Academy v West of England Bishop Fox's Girls' School. Taunton
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
Presented by BrianWidlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
This week Woman's Hour Is in the Land of the RisingSun-pagodas, temples and 115 million people.
Rush Mats and Paper Houses: LIZ MARDALL and PETER ESTALL test the temperature in Tokyo. And also:
Reading Your Letters. and other items made In Britain.
The Ginger Tree by OSWALD WYND abridged in 14 part* by MONICA GKEY Read by HANNAH CORDON (8)
(Hannah Cordon is in ' Can You Hear Me at the Back!' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London) Editor WYN KNOWLES See page 3
Story: Snowy Finds a Job by ELSA BECKETT
No More A-Roving hy JOHN WHITING
Valley of No Return by TOM BESTWICK
Read by William Eedle
' They had come here together. They came when they were young and first In love, and he had been afraid, even then, of the thought of ever losing her.'
Producer MITCH RAPER
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
6: Three's Company
Rita, Phoebe and Alistair make up a happy, if unconventional household. Then Tom appears on the scene. Are Rita and Phoebe about to lose their ideal lodger?
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
(Repeated: Tues 1,40 pm)
Presented by Karl Sabbagh What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer DAVID PATERSON
Livingstone and Sechele by DAVID POWNALL
Livingstone only made one convert in Africa, Sechele, Chief of the Crocodile People. Turning a pagan into a shaky sort of Christian forces the missionary to re-examine his own beliefs and prejudices.
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC
Manchester (Repeated: Sun 2.30)
Four hands at one piano. David Francis and Gordon Langford combine at the keyboard to bring you a programme of popular music.
Producer KATHRYN RANDALL
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presented by Paul Vaughan
Producer ANNE WINDER
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A Cab at the Door by v. S. PRITCHETT abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by PETER JEFFREY 6: Back to the Smoke
Producer MARGARET ETALL (Peter Jeffrey Is a National Theatre player) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude
