Presented from Scotland by Allan Wright
A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
BBC Scotland
6.25 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE RT REV
MICHAEL HARE-DUKE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Laurie Macmillan
sallies forth into the BBC Sound Archives in search of the sublime and the ridiculous.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
A mystery tour with the personalities who will be making the news this week. Mystery man with field-glasses,
Kenneth Robinson ; mystery voice, Fred Housego.
Producer PETER ESTALL
long wave only
NEM, p 25; Virgin-born, we bow before thee (BBC HB 240); Psalm 27, pt 1;
Luke 2, vv 22-35, 39 (AV); Jesu, guide our way (BBC HB 144): long wave only
Fergus by JOYCE HOLMS Read by Fraser Kerr
Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
long wave only
by JOHN AND JULIA KEAY The tragic story of the Scottish explorer
Alexander Gordon Laing who, in 1825, left Tripoli to solve the mystery of the River Niger and become the first Christian in modern times to reach the legendary city of Timbuktu.
Narrated by Patrick Malahide with David Bannerman as Laing
Other parts played by JILL FENNER , JOHN SHEDDEM and FINLAY WELSH
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland long wave only
Presented by Patricia Beer Readers HUGH BURDEN and PENELOPE LEE
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor DAVID HARDING
with Douglas Adams , Judi Dench , Russell Harty and Kenneth Robinson
Quotations read by RONALD Fletcher. Devised and presented by NIGEL REES
Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Talking Point.
Forthcoming Attractions: GORDON GOW previews films on BBCtv during the next fortnight.
I See a Need: LINDSAY MACKIE meets people who've led a campaign
(1) - GWEN JAMES Of Voice for the Child in Care Cousin Phillis byELIZABETH GASKELL abridged in seven parts by DELIA PATON. Read by Michael Jayston (1)
' I see her now - Cousin Phillis. She was dressed in dark blue cotton of some kind, with a little frill of the same wherever it touched her white skin. And such a white skin it was! I have never seen the like.' (Music: Glare's Harp Concerto)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Samarkand byTIMOTHYKIDD
An occasional series about people who are happy at their work. This week: Janet Guy, dentist
BBC Birmingham
No Fond Return of Love (11)
Presenters Joan Bakewell and Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Hypocrisy
FrankMuirand
Alfred Marks illustrate the subject's humour with jokes, quotes and press clippings, as well as recorded comedy from
TOM LEHRER , PETER SELLERS NOEL COWARD, ALAN BENNETT PETER COOK , DUDLEY MOORE If we said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible. (BALZAC) Written by FRANK muir and SIMON BRETT
Producer SIMON BRETT
The Lift by ALLAN BERRIE with and This political tragedy is set in a poets' and writers' apartment block in Moscow for what the author calls The Beautiful Dream (1924-27) and The Terrible Reality
(1928-35). It focuses on the literary aspirations and disillusion of Boris Brodski. The lift takes on sinister overtones as it carries State Police to arrest the latest dissident writer.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Three programmes 2: Letter from the Kalka Mail
Gerald Priestland recently travelled aboard one of the great trains that roll across northern India from Simla to Calcutta. Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by Robert Eagle A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
The Worm Forgives the Plough
6: My New Farm long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
