A regional view of farming in the week ahead. Presented from the South East by Bryan Platt
6.25 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
Presented by John Timpson
With LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV R. T. BROOKS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Christopher Slade
reflects on life in and out 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 PETER ESTALL long wave only from 9.35
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NEM, p 106; Father of heaven, whose love profound (BBC BB 290); Psalm 121; John 5, vv 16-30 (AV); The King of Love (BBC BB 475)
by ERIC WILLIAMS abridged In 15 part by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by DAVID MARCH (6) Producer GERRY JONES long wave only
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In six programmes, Derek Cooper visits just a few of the 1,000-plus inhabited islands that make up the British Isles. He talks to the islanders and reflects on life-styles often very different from that experienced on the mainland.
'Had we not had revitalisation with incoming blood, we would have been a much poorer people.' Orkney has always welcomed new people and now with another lifeline - the aeroplane - it is one of the liveliest of the islands.
BBC Birmingham
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Presenter D. M. Thomas Readers Jill Balcon and Hugh Dickson
Producer BRIAN PATTEN
BBC Bristol. Requests to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR long wave only
Including Job News and MOLLY PRICE-OWEN with World of Work: ideas on careers and training. Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Editor DAVID HARDING
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(Details: 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
Make It Your Business: can a hobby, or a dream, become a successful small business? RON ALLDRIDGE reports. 1: ' Kiddylore ' - safety posters
Out of Context: DAVID HAWKSWORTH talks to Lord
Hallsham, the Lord Chun cellor, about his Lesser known activity - writing poetry.
A Burning Issue PETER EVANS investigates cysttis - a complaint that at least 50 per cent of women will suffer from some time In their lives.
New Francs for Old Junk: a report from Paris by NOREEN RIOLS.
In the Highlands, from The Weather in Africa by MARTHA GELLUORN abridged in six parts by madgehart.ReadDy Geoffrey Beevers (1)
Ian Paynter had hrated It in England after the war. Then he'd remembered overhearing some men in the prisoner-of-war camp where he'd been, talking about Kenya and starting-a new life there. He hadn't imagined he'd like-farming. But he liked ft. better than anything he'd ever done. And old Luke Hardy , who'd taken to the bottle after his wife's death, was selling Fair-. view Farm.
(Music: Jacob's Five Pieces for harmonica and strings)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Story: The Sparrow's Trick by ANNE ENGLISH
by John Kirkmorris
with Michael Jayston, Caroline Blakiston, Patrick Troughton, David Daker, John Bott
Algeria 1962: towards the end of the war for the independence of the Moslem population, a deputation from Gaullist headquarters arrives at a French army base. Their mission - to locate an irreconcilable rebel who has been hunted without success for years. He is urgently required to attend a peace conference. An old friend of his, a woman journalist, is escorted by a cynical but brilliant soldier on a highly dangerous expedition to track him down.
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Ship In a Bottle by ANTUN SOLJAN translated by THE AUTHOR and B. S. JOHNSON
Read by Robert Rietty
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
5.50 Shipping forecast
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Report
(Details Wed 10.30 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans
After Moscow by ARNOLD YARROW with Isabel Dean Timothy West Judy Parfitt
Dinah Sheridan John Carson
Thelma Whiteley and Brian Carroll
Chekhov's Three Sisters set their hearts on Moscow and all it represented for love, opportunity and fulfilment.
This Monday Play takes up their story in 1917, as middle age and revolution catch up with Masha, Olga and Irina.
A younger generation is ready to carry away their dreams, their old life has vanished and even romance seems very far away Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
In six programmes, Phil Smith explores the relationship between the Pennine landscape and the people in it.
BBC Manchester
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
by Bernard Kops, abridged in ten parts by Brenda Rudolf
The novelist and playwright Bernard Kops reads from his own autobiographical work and tells the story of his early years - from his childhood in the east-end of London, to his marriage and his first steps towards a distinguished literary career.
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Weather report forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23 am Shipping forecast; Inshore forecast.
