A regional view of farm. ing in the week ahead
Presented from the South East by Bryan Platt
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Libby Purves and Paul Burden
6.45* Prayer for the Day The Rev Leslie Stokes
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by Bryan Martin
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Thoughts, Prayers, Reflections, a collection of short talks, £1.35, from bookshops
A look ahead with Christopher Slade
An autobiography by WYNDHAM LEWIS adapted for radio in ten episodes by C. J. FOX
Read by Timothy West (1) 'Let me introduce myself. -I am rather what Mr Shaw would have been like if he had been more richly endowed with imagination. emotion and intellect. (He said he was a finer fellow than Shakespeare. I merely prefer myself to Mr Shaw).'
Producer tom KINNINMONT BBC Scotland
from Glasgow
The live talk programme is on the road for a month to take its own unpredictable look at some of the predictable topics of the forthcoming week - helped, as always, by the personalities who'll be in the news.
Producer PETER ESTALL
NEM, p 50; Lord of the worlds above (BBC HB 462); Psalm 86; Mark 2, vv 13-22 (RSV); Through the night of doubt and sorrow (BBC HB 186)
Greenmantle
9: Sparrows on the Housetops'
Presented by Brian Thompson
A seasonal look at the life on Britain's coastline in the holiday season - seabirds in Scotland, the Lincolnshire saltmarsh in flower; the work of a Hampshire air-sea rescue unit; Shanklin's sunshine and a 50-year history of amusement arcades; and scuba-diving off the Western Isles. producer DON mosey BBC Manrhester
(Repeated: Sat 10.15 pm) Preview: page IS
The Facts and Fallacies of Dieting. Presented by Caroline Parsons producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
News views and advice for consumers. Including World of Work with ideas on careers and training, Presenter Bill Breckon Editor DAVID HARDING
Chairman Robert Robinson 27: Midlands and North of England (Semi-tinal 3)
Anthony Richmond (Schoolmaster)
David Milnes (Solicitor) Richard Boam (Male nurse)
Dr John Garrett (Hospital doctor)
The programme includes Beat the Brains,-in which listeners put meir questions to the contestants, programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by, IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm).
12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics In and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
A White Russian Meets the Reds: MASKA WILLIAMS describes her experiences. The Kissing Disease: DR ROBtRT ANDREW talks about the causes and etfects of glandular fever.
Reading Your Letters.
Pretty Much Out of Tuner: after Oliver Cromwell destroyed all the church organs. gallery minstrels evolved to fill the musical gap. BOB PRIZEMAN digs into their hi'story.
A Portrait of Jane Austen by DAVID CECIL , abridged in 11 instalments by -MONICA GREY Read by LOCKWOOD WEST (6)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Constantinople Goes Shopping by PETER ASHLEY
By Tanith Lee
Paul Baxter, a research scientist into time-travel, decides to push his project further than his immediate superiors expect. The risk is enormous. The result is a meeting of two different worlds.
(BBC Manchester)
(Broadcast Sat 8.30 pm)
(Feature p8)
(Stereo)
by Christopher Serpell
Miss Thom by HUGH WALPOLE
Read by John Kidd
She never complained about anything. She was not given to confidences and when she was in company that treated her kindly, she was radiantly happy - radiance was the word.
Producer MITCH RAPER
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
and the Rotten Apple
The fourth of a series of 13 plays by JOHN MORTIMER (Details: Wed at 10.30 pm)
(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.
Sitting Duck by BLOKE MODISANE with Ronald Lewis as Zip Herzog andAltonKumalo as Sugar I)amara
Private Damara deserts from the Government Army, After 25 years he fancies a change. But changing armies isn't so easy. Or is it?
Technical presentation, AMNA SMITH , assisted by CAROL MCSHANE and RICHARD BEADSMOORE
Directed by BRIAN WRIGHT (Repeated; Sun 2.30 pm) (John Matabiliza is a member of the RSC)
Anthony Storr explores the connections between creativity and mental abnormality.
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
British filmmakers have an enviable reputation. Production companies like EMI can finance artistic and financial successes such as The Deer Hunter and The Muppet Movie and Hollywood entrusted an eight-figure budget to British talent for Superman and Star Wars, yet there is no indigenous British cinema to compare with that in France, Germany or Australia. Apart from rare artistic successes, there is a dearth of homegrown films at local cinemas.
Michael Billington investigates the financial pressures which determine what is seen on the screens and wonders whether the dwindling audiences warrant the government investment in cinema some pundits are demanding.
Presenter Douglas Stuart Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
In Patagonia by BRUCE CHATWIN abridged in ten parts by ANGELA THOMAE. Read by Tim Piggott -Smith (1)
In December 1974 Bruce Chatwin journeyed to a region known to early travellers as ' the uttermost part of the earth', in quest of a strange prehistoric beast. His encounters at the tip of the world were to prove almost as mysterious as the fabled mylodon he was searching for.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
by Parry, Sibelius and Mozart long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
