Market prices and intelligence, the weather, and what's new for farmers.
A note from Religious Affairs reporter Rosemary Hartill
6.55 Weather; programme news
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
BBC Birmingham
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
7.55 Weather; programme news
Tony Lewis presents his magazine programme of sport, taking a personal look at the people and the stories that are making the news. This week:
Rugby Union: another highlight of the Welsh Centenary season today when the combined Scotland and Ireland teams take on the best from Wales and England. Meet some of the personalities in Cardiff.
Football: topical discussion about the game's interesting characters and matches.
Also the rest of the news at home and abroad including LOTTE MWALE bid for the WBC World Light-heavyweight Title against MATTHEW SAAD MOHAMMAD in San Diego; and HENRY BLOFELD from Brisbane with news of the first Test between Australia and New Zealand.
Producer JOANNE WATSON
A Radio Sport and OB production
from routine with Bernard Falk , intrepid reporters and enthusiasts with ideas on ways and means of spending your free time, a critical look at the leisure industries, and news of things to do and entertainment that simply shouldn't be missed. Including NIGEL COOMBS with the latest news on the travel and holiday scene, ERIC TOBITT with leisure ideas for the coming week and a look at what's worth watching on ' the box '.
Producers GEOFF DOBSON and JENNY MARSHALL
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
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John Ardagh reviews the weekly magazines.
Robert Carvel views the past week through the eyes of backbench members of Parliament.
New Every Morning, page 93; The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want (BBC HB 480); Psalm 90, vv 1-12; Hebrews 10, vv 1-10 (AV); Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 328)
Margaret Howard presents her selection from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Presenter Louise Botting
Radio's key to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money. Whether it concerns a mortgage or insurance policy, an investment bond or a bank loan, a tax dispute or a social security squabble-Money Box gets the answers from the people in the know.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.2 am)
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to
Alan Coren
Joan Bakewell Simon Hoggart
Producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Mon 7.20 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Alan Fisher , Lord Willis Barbara Woodhouse Peter Marsh from The Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion, Shorncliffe. Kent
Chairman David Jacobs
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Chris Mead , Michael Morris and Pat Morris dispatch another batch of listeners' wildlife questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
by GEORGE ELIOT dramatised in 12 parts by HALLAM TENNYSON with Elizabeth Bell David rollings Steven Pacey Russell Dixon Judith Arthy and Dr Lydgate has now married Rosamond and finds the cost of marriage rather higher than he had anticipated. Dorothea is very concerned about her husband's health which is all the more aggravated by the appearance of Will Ladislaw in Middlemarch.
7: Rumours and Shadows
TOM STEER (piano)
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 3.2 pm)
The Art of the Story-teller Certain people have the knack of telling a good tale. But what is it that makes it so endearing? Is it something in the tale itself, or is it in the telling? In this final programme, Toni Arthur examines the art of creative story-telling.
Scriptwriter DAVE ARTHUR Researched by ROSY voss Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sheila Steafel , Jon Glover and music by DAVID FIRMAN
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Unpredictable, and often animated, table-talk that is meant to arouse or to amuse - and yet it occasionally manages only to annoy.
Musical interlude by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved with the less familiar, and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RONALD cook
(Repeated; Wed 11.5 am)
A medieval whodunit by Ellis Peters freely adapted for radio by Alick Rowe
with Ray Smith as Brother Cadfael, Steve Pacey as Brother John, Lolly Cockerell as Sioned, Gordon Reid as Prior Robert and Glyn Owen as Bened.
Brother Cadfael turns detective in this light-hearted story of mystery, murder and intrigue where the over-ambitious Prior Robert of Shrewsbury leads a delegation into Wales to acquire the 'miraculous' bones of an obscure Welsh saint.
(Repeated: Mon 3.02 pm)
'If you have a true vocation, this life will lead you to wholeness. But if it's wrong for you, instead of finding God, you'll discover your own instability.'
' It's a totally selfish life. You're fed, clothed and you've got security. It's far more difficult to come out than stay in, believe me.'
' I spent the entire day weeping before I left the community. But it becomes a question of honesty. I could not stay in without doing violence to my own soul.'
In spite of its problems, women still come forward every year to try to live ' the perfect life Frances Donnelly talks to nuns, past and present, Catholic and Anglican. about why they entered a religious community. and in many cases, why they ultimately left it. Producer SALLY THOMPSON
An evening meditation led by Colin Semper
A series of five programmes in which writers and travellers consider the pleasures and perils of their journeys.
4: Kailas - The Sacred Mountain
A little to the north of India, across the jagged rampart of the Great Himalaya in the southern-most portion of Western Tibet stands the sacred mountain of Kailas. Had a religious map of Asia ever been drawn, many of the thin red lines tracing the principal pilgrim routes would have been seen to converge on this remote and remarkable peak.
In the spring of 1936 the Austrian writer and traveller HERBERT TICHY , in company with CHATTER BHUJ KAPUR, undertook a pilgrimage to the mountain. John Snelling tells the story of their hazardous journey.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
