News, weather, papers and sport
Presented from the South East by Bryan Platt
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV LESLIE STOKES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Thoughts, Prayers, Reflections, a collection of short talks £1.35, available from bookshops
A look ahead with Laurie Macmillan
by J. G . WELLS
Adapted and read in 11 parts by TOM VERNON
11: At the Rufus Stone
In which purposes are mistook and containing some melancholy reflections.•
Producer JOY HATWOOD
The live talk programme which takes 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
BBC . Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in -the politics and the people.
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NEM, p 84; Christian, seek not yet repose (BBC HB 340); Canticle 4; Mark 12, w 13-27 (Rsv); Judge eternal, throned in splendour (BBC HB 393)
Prayer book: New Every Morning; £1:75 hardback, £1.25 paperback, available from bookshops
Gentleman and Ladies by SUSAN BILL abridged In 13 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by JUNE BARRIE (6) ProducerPAMELA . HOWE BBC Bristol .
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in which Father Damian Webb reflects on his unique archive of children's Singing games collected during his travels in Britain, Europe and Africa during a period of nearly 3.0 years.
Research BRENDA THOMAS Producer GARETH PRICE BBC Wales '
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Some of the poetry requested by listeners. Presented by p. J. Kavanagn
Readers HUGH DICKSON and BBENDA KAYE
Producer BRIAN PATTEN
Requests: Poetry Please!, BBC Bristol BS8 2LR
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Presenter Jenni Mills Editor DAVID HARDING
Terry Wogan invites you to share his enjoyment in recalling the words, music and people that have tickled his sense of humour. And they include SPIKE JONES , S. J. PEREL -MAN, TONY HANCOCK , THE MUPPETS, BOB NEWffART, STAN FREBERG , THE GOONS Producer BELEN FRY
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Chris Mohr Forthcoming Attractions: GORDON Gow previews films on BBC television during the next fortnight.
A Pint of the Best: ANDREA SCAGELL finds out what it's like to be a blood-donor.
Walking in the Thames Valley: a 107-mile walk described by MILES JEBB.
Chalk and Talk: DAVID HAWKSWORTH looks at items of educational interest-
Mrs Miniver (4)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave' only
Story: The Witch of Goudbody's Patch by IVY O. EASTWICK
Book: Listen with Mother Stories, £3.25, available from bookshops
The Idiot Lady by LOPE DE VEGA
Pearl by GREGORY EVANS
Read by Timothy Earle
' Pearl didn't talk about Dylan that afternoon. She talked for her own sake, not for ours, leaning back on the faded chintz sofa and closing her eyes occasionally, forgetting we were there. A lot of her talk was about the theatre; the theatre in her heyday, " before all those angry young men invaded the stage".' Producer MITCH RAPER
The news magazine
Presenters Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hQur of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world. including Financial Report
and the Expert Witness
The tenth in a series of 13 plays by JOHN MORTI MER in which Horace Rumpole , barrister-at-law, meets a country doctor and his charming family and crosses swords with an expert in matters of Sudden death. Directed by PETER KING
Written by DEBBIE COOK
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Presented by Peter Evans What is happening in science?
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer RICHARD ELLIS
by Ken Mitchell
with Roy Marsden as Jaanus Koronkola
'He knew the mockers would come. He also knew that one day he would complete his work and the great ship would sail across the rolling plains. So amid the dust and howling wind, he laboured on his vision.'
The main action of the play takes place in Saskatchewan, during the Depression.
Music by ADRIAN SECCHI, CHARLES STODDART (percussion)
BBC Scotland
' Our teacher was the school's senior history master. He walks in. All rise and chant! "Here comes the master-like a great ship in full sail ". We intoned this ludicrous litany day after day as the master who was in fact rather small progressed to his desk feigning to notice nothing.'
The journalist and historian Peter Calvocoressl recalls his classical and distinctive education at the Eton of the late 1920s. Producer TOM SUTCLIFFE
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
The former radio show
Lesson 37: Is Britain Going The Burkiss Way?
starring Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris
Written by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK
Producer DAVID HATCH
Can You Forgive Her? by ANTHONY TROLLOPE abridged in 20 parts by MICHAEL HARDWICK Read by TIMOTHY BATESON (8)
Producer MARGARET STALL
A sequence of music by Bach, Purcell, Haydn and Mozart long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
