News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45. Prayer for the Day THE REV PATRICK FORBES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought /or the Day
with Roger Cook
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A series looking at community life in four contrasting areas of Wales.
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The border village in Radnorshire where the Marcher Lords fought many battles to keep the Welsh under control.
Today its people live by the land in a countryside noted for its peace and tranquillity.
Producer TELERI eevan BBC Wales long wave only
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Book, New Every
Morning. fl.75 hardback and £1.25 paperback, from bookshops
The Old Man Knows by PHILIP H. TURNER
Read by Alan Rothwell ' He was the island's oracle. Anyone with a problem consulted the Old Man. But to me he was a confidence trickster preying on simple people.'
Producer Gillian HUSH BBC Manchester
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We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve, but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialised experts and the help of the BBC Reference
Library, sort out the answers.
Producer SIMON ELMES
Questions, on a postcard please, to: Enquire
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News, views and advice for consumers including Jin. TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenter Jenni Mills
in Something to Celebrate
12.5SWeather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Runes and Isms: FRANCES CAIRNCROSS explains a piece of economic jargon. Reading Your Letters. The Most Appalling
Headache: DR OLIVER SACHS surveys current thinking on the nature and treatment of migraine. The Spy's Wife (11) long wave only
For the Man Who Has Everything by STEVE FITZPATRICK Jack. burning with self-righteous good intentions, wishes to free the world from mindless, soul-destroying conveyor-belt jobs. His long-suffering wife points out that perpetual unemployment isn't the only ambition in life.
Jack, however, strides out to beat ' The System and steps right in it.
Directed by gerry JONES
This week ' Q ' is for queens and quodlibets. gramophone records
with Frank Delaney
No Fond Return of Love (9)
The news magazine
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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Half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Opera in three acts
Music by Mozart
Libretto by GIANBARTISTA VARPSCO (sung in Italian)
A direct relay from the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg, mounted by the European Broadcasting Union on the 200th anniversary of the opera's first performance.
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS, VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, Harpsichord continuo JEANPIERRE FABER, Cello continuo CORNELIUS HERRMANN, conducted by LEOPOLD Hager
The scene is laid in Crete at the end of the Trojan War.
Acts 1 and 2
In the second of two talks Mary Goldring casts an unromantic eye over what life looks like for the Whites a year after they lost political power to the blacks.
Act 3
Anthony Howard reporting
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