Market prices and intelligence, the weather, and what's new for farmers. Producer
LESLIE COTTINGTON
A note from Religious Affairs reporter
Rosemary Harlill
6.55 Weather; programme news
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBt' Birmingham
i Broadcast at 6.50 am)
Norman Tozer with more advice on how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
7.55 Weather; programme news
Introduced by Tony Lewis
The" magazine programme of sport which takes a personal look at the people and the stories that are making the news. This week featuring
Racing: the £12,000 Massey-Ferguson Gold Cup is today's feature at Cheltenham. LORD OAKSEY previews the race and brings us up-to-date on the week other news.
Football: informed background and opinion on the topical issues of the moment.
Also the rest of the news at home and abroad, including a report from HENRY BLOFELD on the one-day cricket international between Australia and India in Melbourne. 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.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
Hugo Young views the past week through the eyes of backbench members of Parliament.
Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG
New Every Morning, page 21; The Lord is King: Lift up thy voice (BBC HB 26); Psalm 1; John 3. vv 12-21 (AV); Lift up your heads. ye mighty gates (BBC HB 34)
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.
Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE
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Presented by Louise Bolting
Radio's key to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money.
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
Rob Buckman Simon Jenkins Gay Search
Producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Mon 7.20 pm) (Barry Took is in My Word! Sunday 12 noon;
12.55 Weather; programme news
Austin Mitchell.MP
Nicholas Winterton , mp Claire Brooks
Michael Winner tackle the issues raised by an audience from Richmond, North Yorkshire.
Chairman David Jacobs
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
The special edition with topics suggested by you - the listener. We read your letters, play your favourite sounds and puzzle you with the mystery sound competition.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
by GEORGE ELIOT dramatised in 12 parts by HALLAM TENNYSON with Elizabeth Bell Steven Pacey Russell Dixon Judith Arthy and The political scene in England is in turmoil at the prospect of the Reform Bill. It is reflected in Middlemarch by Mr Brooke 's rather futile attempts to represent Whig policies, and by the growing intrigue that seems to surround the much-disliked Mr Buls trode. Yet another source of gossip has presented itself to the town - a secret codicil in Casaubon's will - the contents of which give rise to scandal.
8: Surrounding Pressures
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 3.2 pm)
From total rejection to cautious discussion. At last scientists are beginning to take astrology seriously. Following last month's Horizon programme on BBC2. Peter Evans takes a closer look at work being done which suggests that science and astrology may yet make ' not so strange bed-fellows
Producer JANE WOOD
An ireverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel 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.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on records, mixing the well-loved with the less familiar, and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)
Plots Have I Laid by JON ROLLASON with Flames claw 100 feet into the sky. The set of a major feature film is being destroyed at a cost of hulf-a-million pounds: the final shot and one that cannot be repeated. Without it. the rest of the film is useless ... The gang robbing the bank are enjoying a radio play.
Directed by PETER KING (Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)
I Derek Newark is a National Theatre player)
Italy. 1943 As Allied Forces struggled to secure the Salerno beachhead. four miles from the German lines 192 of Montgomery's crack Eighth Army troops refused to obey orders and were herded into cages alongside enemy prisoners. At the court martial that followed the men were found guilty. Three sergeants were sentenced to death, the others to hard labour and terms of imprisonment.
Why did it happen and why. 37 years later, are the authorities still reluctant to talk about the incident?
Presented by George Hume Producers
GEOFFREY CAMERON and DANIEL NEIKLE BBC Scotland
Evening prayers led by Angela Tilby
The last of a series of five programmes in which writers and travellers consider the pleasures and perils of their journeys. Burma
In recent years Burma has been comparatively cut off from the outside world. Now things are changing. Anne Catch-pole charts her gradual discovery of this little known land of rice fields, teak forests and pagodas, from the market of Rangoon and the ruins of Pagan to the chimney pots of Maymyo and the glory of Mandalay. Producer HELEN FRY
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
