A regional view of farming presented from Wales O.VJOHNGLYNJONES BBC Wales
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Presented by Brian Redhead and LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV R. T. BROOKS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
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.
who conducts his regular team as they help to find antidotes to that Monday morning feeling - by talking to some of the personalities who will be making the news in the forthcoming week.
Producer PETER ESTALL long wave only from 8.35
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nem, p 79: For the beauty of the earth (BBC HB 272); Psaim 104, vv 25-36; John 9, vv 1-12 (av); Praise my soul (BBC HB 15)
by E. ARNOT ROBERTSON abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Sheila Mitchell (6)
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol 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. 5: Guernsey
The most westerly of the Channel Islands, Guernsey was once a haven for pirates. Today it takes in UK tax evaders and earns the rest of its money from tourists and tomatoes.
Producer jock GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
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poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by p J. Kavanagh
Readers Gary Watsoa and Sheila Mitchell
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Requests: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR long wave only
including Job News and MOLLY PRICE-OWEN with World of Work: ideas on careers and training.
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DAVID HARDING
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A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 2: London (2) Philip Stevens (Civil servant) James McLeod
(Industrial consultant)
Andrew Turek (Solicitor) Roger Luther (Evangelist) Including Beat the Brains. in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN. Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
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Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
On Holiday in Britain (2): BERNARD JACKSON Visits Shropshire and discovers how it has changed since Norman days.
Life with John: JENNY PEARCE has twin sons, one of whom is autistic. Stepsons by ROBERT LIDDELL abridged in 11 parti by ANN REES-JONES Read by Nigel Anthony fl)
' Elsa had been brought up to be a good wife and mother, and it looked as if no place were going to be offered her in that overcrowded profession. Her reading tended towards books in which the heroine was rewarded. late in the day, by being asked to comfort some life-worn man. Could Oswald Faringdon be the life-worn man whom it was her mission to comfort? '
(Music: Brahms' Clarinet Quintet in B minor) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
(Nigel Anthony is Hornblower in The Hornblower Story: Tues 10.30 pm)
Story:
Henry's Big Day Out by MARGARET RYAN
by Peter Whalley
Ron and Rita by RICHARD AUSTIN
Read by Miriam Margolyes Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
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5.55 Weather; programme news
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Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
Public School
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject. with the voices of: Peter Sellers , Tony Hancock. John Cleese Joyce Grenfell. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT. Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by Geoff Watts
by IVAN TURGENEV translated and dramatised by JOAN O'CONNOR with Simon Cadell Rosalind Ayres John Carson and Hugh Dickson
Vladimir was only 18 when he first fell in love, but the memory of that love stayed with him all his life. He was teased. he was encouraged, and he was used with a ruthlessness which he couldn't begin to understand.
Music for guitar arranged and played by ERIC HILL JOHN FRASER (piano)
Technical presentation by DAVID GREENWOOD
Directed by JANE MORGAN
In six programmes. Phil Smith explores the relationship between the Pennine landscape and the people in it.
5: Cain's Kingdom
Across the dark moorland of the Brontes - and beyond.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester
(The final programme is on 24 March)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Paul Vaughan
Producer WAYNE DREW
Rory MacPherson reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The Aran Islands by J. M. SYNGE abridged in ten parts by SAM HANNA BELL Read by Robert Urquhart (1)
' I am in Aranmor, sitting over a turf fire, listening to a murmur of Gaelic that is rising from a little public house under my room.'
The Aran Islands lie about 30 miles west of Galway, and in 1898 Synge visited the principal island to record the sayings. stories and the strange life of its inhabitants.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
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