A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from the North by Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
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Western leaders - including the Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher , President Carter. Chancellor Schmidt and President Giscard - are in Venice for an economic summit. With the West moving into recession, their decisions will affect us all.
In Venice, Brian Redhead and BBC Economics editor DOMINICK HARROD
In London, John Timpson
6.45' Prayer for the Day With PR JOHN MCCULLAGH
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
reflects on life in and out of the BBC Sound Archives. (Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
The live talk programme which takes its own look at some of the topics of the forthcoming week, in the company of some... of the—personalities who will be-making the news. Producer PETER - ESTALL
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NEM, p 1; Praise ye the Lord, ye servants of the' Lord (BBC HB 280); Psalm 3; Acts 9, v 43-10, v 16 (av); Son of God, Eternal Saviour (BBC HB 377)
Dragonflight by ANNE MCCAFFREY abridged in 15 parts by MONICA GREY Read by Anna Calder-Marshall (1) A lively adventure set in a medieval world of the future, where dragons guard the planet Pern and a search is on to find the woman who can handle their new dragon queen.
Producer JENYTHWORSLEY long wave only
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Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas HUGH FALKUS and KEITH ALUN see the return of the sea trout to the rivers of Cumbria; LYNN TEN KATE gathers watercress in Hampshire; HARRY SOAN savours the scents of summer in Herefordshire; MOLLIE HARRIS picks wild flowers for pressing in Oxfordshire; ERIC SIMMS visits the Bedfordshire headquarters of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; and MARTIN MUNCASTER goes badger-spotting with FRED SHEPHERD , wildlife photographer.
Producer JOHN HASLAM
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Some of tile poetry requested by listeners
Presenter D. M. Thomas
.Readers HUGH BURDEN
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ProducerBRIANPATTEN
BBC Bristol long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers. Including World of Work with ideas on careers and training. Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DAVID HARDING
Chairman Robert Robinson West of England (Round 2) Roy Coombs
(Violet grower) George Sampson
(Retired hospital administrator)
James Cocker
(Civil servant) George Slace
(Civil servant)
Including Beat the Brains Programme devised by jam P. WYNN. Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD ED!S
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
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with Sue MacGregor
A Day with Sue Barker: as Wimbledon gets under way. RON ALLDRIDGE reports on a day in the life of our'owii Sue Barker. How Can I Fly i/ I Can't HearYou?: ANNA PERRY reports on a scheme to help the deaf when travelling by air. ;
A Hebrideai) Vvice; FINLAY J. MACDONALD finds an absence of mirth in the land. 'I'm So Glad that Jesus Loves Me! ': BERNARDJACK SON surveys 200 years of Sunday School.
Travels on an Elephant (3): CHRISTINA DODWELL gives Song, the elephant, a bath and discovers an enormous cave.
The End of the Affair (8) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Story: Badger Falls III by ROSALIE EISENSTEIN Read by MARION CONROY
by Allan Prior
It's not long ago that armed criminals were a rare event in this country. Inspector Savage believes it should be kept that way. As far as he is concerned, if you take a gun then you take the consequences.
With John Bott as Inspector Savage and Henry Knowles as Sergeant Eaves
A Question of Time by SYLVIA LEWIN
Read by Sean Barrett
Producer SALLY THOMPSON and Joan Bakewell
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast, long wave only
5:55 Weather programme news
including Financial Report
by PETER TINNISWOOD. A six-part comedy serial 4: Courage, Mother, Courage
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Doreen Mantle and Robin Bailey are National Theatre players)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
by Jean Anouilh
Translated by John Whiting
with Flora Robson as The Duchesse Dupont-Dufort, Mary Ellis as Mme Renaud, Jane Asher as Valentine, Geoffrey Beevers as Gaston, Brian Haines as Georges
This new production of one of Anouilh's best-known plays is specially mounted to mark the author's 70th birthday this year. The action takes place in the Renauds' country house in France during 1936.
(Repeated: next Sun 2.30)
(Jane Asher is in 'Before the Party' at the Apollo Theatre London)
Feature p 13
John Morgan , writer and broadcaster, looks back at the first five decades of his life. The fifth sees the formation of a new commercial television company. Producer TELERI BEVAN (First broadcast on Radio Wales)
with Michael Billington Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Editor ROSEMARY BART
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIROSBORNE
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Rodney Smith reports from the Economic Summit in Venice. long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
