News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
Presented from Scotland by Allan Wright BBC Scotland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by J Brian Redhead With HUGH SYKES
6.45' Prayer for the Day
With THE REV LESLIE. STOKES
7.0; 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day Thoughts, Prayers, Reflections, a collection - of shorttalks.£1.35,from bookshops
A look ahead with Christopher Slade
dusts off some treasures from the BBC Sound Archives, Producer
SIMON ELMES
(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.
BBC : corresportdtnis throughput, the world talk about the countries they work in -the politics and the people,
Editor. PADDY O'KEEFFE
New Every Morning, p.46 Father, we praise thee, now the night is over (BBC HB 405); Psalm 119, part 4; Corinthians-1, vv 1-17 (AV); Jesu, very thought of thee (BBC HB 322)
Prayer book: New Every Morning, £1.75 hardback and £1.25 paperback from bookshops
(Stereo)
Dragonflight (11)
Destructive Threads threaten to invade the planet Pern, and there are not enough dragons and riders to burn them up as they fall.
by John Ashe
Narrated by Kenneth Griffith
The 10th Bengal Lancers were known as Hodson's Horse. William Stephen Raikes Hodson (1821-1858) is remembered as the hero of the Indian Mutiny, which he did not survive: the very personification of the Victorian leader of men - a dashing, blond-haired lieutenant, who died leading his men in the Siege of Lucknow. Yet there was a dark side to this by no means conventional character something even his contemporaries recognised as a whiff of sadism in the courage....
with Clive Francis as Hodson.
(BBC Bristol)
(Repeated: Sat. 10.15 pm)
The Facts and Fallacies of Dieting
Eat a little less and not only that- the key for me is to drink the juice of three fresh le after every meal. That's the key. (MICHAEL WINNER) Presented by . Caroline Parsons
Producer CAROLE STONE
News. views and advice for consumers. Including World of Work: ideas on careers and training. Presenters Jenni Mills and Bill Breckon Editor
DAVID HARDING
Chairman Robert Robinson 22: North of England (Round 2)
Dr John Garrett (Hospital doctor) Doreen Werwie
(Local government clerk) Richard Boam (Male nurse)
Sheila Ramsden
(Hospital domestic)
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN. Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake .
1.55 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
with Sue MacGregor .
Talking Point: Stories of a Plant Hunter. 2 Roy Lancaster recalls his first trip abroad, as a National Serviceman Professional
Ethics: barrister ANN MALLALIEU discusses her personal moral standpoint.
Entertainment Round-up: TONY BARNFIELD reporting.
Smallbone Deceased (4)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Mark's Collection by TIM QUINN
The 40 Shilling Trick
The Assembly by MARGARET LINDSAY
Read by Edward Kelsey
" It's an annual event," said Mrs Price. " We have it every year. Each year people take part in tt. Regularly, once a year, we have this Assembly.
The news magazine with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
6.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report
by Peter Tinniswood
The final part of this comedy serial
(Doreen Mantle and Robin Bailey are National Theatre players)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans
What Is happening in science?
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
A Father and his Fate dramatised by PRISCILLA ALLEN from the novel by IVY COMPTON -BURNETT
When Miles Mowbray finds himself a widower, he plans a second marriage. it is a decision which causes great distress to his dependants, but they can only accept the fait accompti, for each Mowbray knows his place in the domestic pecking order and Miles is Head of the Family. There is nothing above him - except fate.
Directed by JOHN CARDY
(Rptd: next Sun 2.30 pm)
In the first of five talks, Finlay J. MacDonald reminisces on a Hebridean boyhood
1: Roots
Mon How his family helped found a tiny crofting community on the bleak Atlantic coast of Harris. Producer LESLIE ROBINSON
Presented by Michael Billingtoa Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The Sign of Four by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930) abridged in ten parts by MICHAEL HARDWICK
Read by Nigel Stock (1)
Every year since her father vanished without trace, Miss Mary Morstan has received an anonymous gift of a large and lustrous pearl. As Sherlock Holmes uncovers the mystery of her father's disappearance, the Agra pearls are seen to be the centre of a devilish tale of treachery and murder. Producer MAURICE LEITCH
long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
