Market prices and intelligence, the weather, and what's new for farmers. Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTOM and KEN POLLOCK
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland
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A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
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Tony Lewis introduces this programme which takes a different look at sport, featuring the offbeat and the humorous as well as up-to-date news from home and abroad. Today highlighting the State Express Rugby League Challenge Cup Final at Wembley - HULL against local rivals HULL KINGSTON ROVERS.
A Radio Sport and OB production See page 3
from routine with Bernard Falk, intrepid reporters and enthusiasts with ideas on ways and means of spending your leisure hours. A critical look at the leisure industries and news of things to do and entertainment that simply shouldn't be missed over the May Day holiday weekend, including this week:
A stamp collection can be a f J-million investment - is there still scope for the amateur?
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor ROGER MACDONALD long wave only
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George Luce reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer JENNY DE YONG long wave only
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Robert Carvel.
Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG long wave only
Book, The BBC Guide to Parliament, f4.50, from bookshops
New Every Morning, page 71; The Lord is King; lift up thy voice (BBC HB 26); Psalm 97; St Matthew 6, vv 25-33 (AV): Jesus shall reign where'er the sun (BBC HB 460)
Prayer book. New Every Morning, El.75, /rom bookshops
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
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Reports from BBC Correspondents around the world. long wave only
Presenter Louise Botting Radio's key to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money. Whether it concerns a mortgage or an insurance policy, an investment bond or a bank loan, a tax dispute or a social security squabble, Money Box gets the answers from the people in the know.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.5 am)
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Sue MacGregor goes to Merseyside to talk to Bill Shankly , former manager of Liverpool, about his life and work in football. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
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Dr Una Kroll
The Rt Hon Edward du Cann, mp
Clive Jenkins
Antony Hopkins tackle the issues raised by the audience at Southsea, Hampshire.
Chairman David Jacobs
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? Thursday
4.15, to: Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
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' ... the bright, white flashes were continuous and when they flew away their path could be followed like the on-off lights of aeroplanes about to land. How can such small creatures generate such a bright light? '
More illuminating comments from this week's team: PETER CRANSTON , ROGER LOVEGROVE and PAT MORRIS. Introduced by Derek Jones
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by CHARLES DICKENS dramatised in ten episodes by BETTY DAVIES starring Angela Pleasence as Little Dorrit Daniel Massey as Arthur Clennam and Peter Vaughan as Mr Dorrit
1: The Father of the Marshalsea
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Eight programmes about sensible eating. Introduced by Bill Breckon 1: One Man's Meat
Although in general man tends to confine himself to a rather narrow range of all the plants and animals theoretically available for consumption, there is still an enormous world-wide variety in what we eat. Series producer MICHAEL TOTTON (First broadcast on R3) long wave only
Book, same title, 12.75 from bookshops
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafel David Jason and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO long wave only
(Hear The Jason Explana tion: Thursday 12.27 pm)
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Unpredictable and often animated table-talk that is meant to arouse or to amuse and yet it occasionally manages only to annoy.
Musical interlude by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
(Repeated: Sun 11.15 pm)
'The best weekly programme in television history,' says one American critic.
From Hollywood, John Williams reports on what makes M'A'S'H a smash. Producer JAMES WILKINSON A Radio News production (Revised repeat)
The first of an occasional series of plays by BERNARD SHAW with Anna Massey John Phillips Gwen Watford and Jeremy Clyde
This play, written in 1905, is a moral confrontation between two generations: the old who made the best of opportunities in an immoral world, and the young who want to atone for this by the misguided idealism of individual sacrifice. It is an exposition of Shaw's doctrine that one ' must either share the world's guilt or go to another planet '.
Directed by RONALD MASON
Encore
Colin Ford re-plays and reflects on the items and personalities from the nightly review of the arts - Kaleidoscope...
Editor ROSEMARY HART
Evening meditation with music led by PR JIM SKELLY BBC Northern Ireland
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
After ten years and one-and-a-half-million visitors, the Lake District National Park looks forward to a new decade, Pat Callaghan talks to John Nettleton. Eric Simms looks at the bird life of the Cambridgeshire Fenland and Robert Powell visits fens of a different kind - in Somerset's Sedgemoor. Martin Muncaster investigates a one-woman spinning industry in Sussex. Keith Allan looks for mad March hares in Northumberland; and Helen Madden visits Rathlin Island in the North Channel.
BBC Manchester
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
