News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter Brian Redhead With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV TONY BRETHERTON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Book: Thoughts, Prayers. Reflections, fl.35, available from bookshops
Four programmes in which Tony Lewis looks at some spectacular acts which take place at the fair and showground, and talks to the men and women involved.
4: Things That Go On in the Sky!
Alan Goldsmith 's Vintage Air Display; Sidney the Gorilla and Hurtling Heather, free-fall parachutists; Don Lindbergh , high fire diver. Producer
DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
Wildlife news from Britain and abroad
Presenter Peter France
6: School Concern Project In Salford, a two-year venture uniting the Education Department, the Social Services Department and the Community Service Volunteers is well under way.
Inspired by the work some schoolchildren had done in creating aids for the handicapped, the project is exploring the possibilities of making the work part of the school curriculum, and the mutual benefits to be derived by both handicapped and able-bodied alike.
Producer GEOFFREY HEWITT BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 42; Jesus, Lord, we look to thee (BBC HB 374); Psalm 98; Mark 1, vv 29-45 (RSV); Lord Christ, who on thy heart didst bear (BBC HB 380)
Greenmantle. 7: The Lady of the Mantilla
A dozen cautionary tales from Phil Smith , based on his own (usually disastrous) attempts to beat the economic crisis. 11: Holiday Snaps BBC Manchester
News views and advice for consumers. Including
JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket. presenter Jenni Mills
Bernard Bresslaw David Buck
Mary Malcolm and Ned Sherrin are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard.
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster (SWIFT)
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer ALAN NIXON
12 55Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Peter Hobday
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
A Mission in Industry: CELIA THOMSON meets an industrial chaplain.
Reading Your Letters.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Responses: the first of a series on language and understanding by PROFESSOR RANDOLPH QUIRK. A Portrait of Jane Austen (4)
Granny Week
Story: Grandma Jones 's Cake by MARGARET RYAN
by Giles Cooper
New young schoolmaster John Ebony starts his teaching career in rather trying circumstances. His predecessor as Lower 5B's form master - Mr Pelham - has been murdered. By Lower 5B.
Abridged and directed by Gordon House
A BBC World Service Drama production
For people who live and work in the country - or would like to. Introduced by Jeanine McMullen
A series which looks at many aspects of country life, offers practical advice to smallholders, and hears from those who use their skills to make A Small Country Living a reality.
Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
Mole Mary by AILIE SCULLION
Read by Mary Riggans Producer
PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
Presenters
Robert Williams and Janet Cohen
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme ! news
including Financial Report
Chairman Robert Robinson 26: South and West (Semi-final 2)
Dr John Perring (Physicist) Susan Lowe
George Sampson (Retired hospital administrator) Roy Coombs
(Violet grower)
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their questions to the contestants. Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
Written by ALAN BOWER
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
A personal selection of poems presented by poet and novelist John Wain Readers DIANA BISHOP
GEOFFREY COLLINS and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT
direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London
Jessye Norman (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conducted by John Pritchard Part 1
Mahler Symphony No 4
In conversation with Frank Delaney the author considers how his career has developed since his first novel Room at the Top was published in 1957.
Part 2
Messiaen Poemes pour Mi Ravel Poeme choregraphique: La valse
Presenter Colin Ford
Producer CLARE SELERIE
Anthony Howard reporting
Summer Lightning (14)
long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
