News. weather, papers, and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from Scotland by Allan Wright BBC Scotland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day
Canon Barney Milligan
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by Bryan Martin
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Harriet Cass
dusts off some further treasures from the BBC Sound Archives.
Your weekly confectionery of sugared bon-bons and acid drops to suit all tastes. Sticky customer played by Kenneth Robinson
NEM, p 46; My Lord, my life, my love (BBC HB 330); Psalm 85; Colossians 2, vv 6-15 (rsv): Jesus is this dark world's light (BBC HB 519)
(long wave only)
The Woman in the Orange Shawl by BARBARA CROWTHER Read by Sheila Mitchell She was short, elderly, a peasant-like figure with a deep orange shawl covering her head and shoulders, her face peering out from its folds. Her hands, half covered in grey woollen mittens, clasped the corners of the shawl and a black leather purse. Producer MITCH RAPER
Some Social and Political Aspects of British Popular Songs
A series of six programmes narrated by Andrew Faulds
with Thelma Whiteley and John Hollis
Singers: CHARLES YOUNG, PAT WHITMORE, CHARLES WEST and the CHARLES YOUNG SINGERS
Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Chartes Causley
Reader John CARSON
Producer BRIAN patten BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon Editordavid harding
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring and with Margot Boyd Pauline Letts Brian Haines
Book Four, Chapter One: The Present
Written by BASIL boothroyd Producer bobby jaye
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Spirit, Mind and Body: is the motto of the John Loughborough school, run by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
LINDSAY MACKIE visits the school as it celebrates its first successful year. Reading Your Letters.
Forthcoming Attractions: GORDON GOW previews films on BBCtv during the next fortnight. The Pain, the Pain:
DR DAVID MENDEL reflects on our attitudes to analgesics.
Up The Crossing
6: The Jommetry Lesson Editor WYN KNOWLKS
by John Wyndham
(Broadcast Sat 8.30 pm)
(Stereo)
Artist Richard Demarco shares the enjoyment of a favourite walk through the Ochil Hills on the ancient road to Meikle Seggie.
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
Poor Koko
A short story by JOHN FOWLES abridged in three parts by BRIAN GEAR
Read by Clive Swift (1) ' When I first woke, that night of my ordeal, I lay as much in a state of incredulity as of fear.' Producer PAMELA HOWE
BBC Bristol
Presenters Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
Including Financial Report
by JOHN LE CARRE adapted for radio in five parts by RENE BASILICO
5: Before she was murdered, Stella Rode wrote a letter accusing her husband of planning to kill her. Now Stanley Rode has disappeared. There are new and unexpected disclosures before the final denouement in Smiley's own house in Chelsea.
Other parts played by SONIA FRASER and MARTYN READ
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which Kenneth Williams, Peter Jones, Clement Freud and Tim Rice endeavour to prevent each other from talking for Just a Minute on this or that.
The Seagull by ANTON CHEKHOV translated by ELISAVETA FEN with and ' ... an idea suddenly came into my head. A subject for a short story: a young girl, like you, has lived beside a lake from childhood. She loves the lake as a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. But a man chances to come along, sees her and, having nothing better to do, destroys her - just like this seagull here.'
Directed by GERRY JONES (Gwen Watford is in ' Present Laughter' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
My Dear Scrope
The 11th and final volume of Lord Byron's letters and journals has just been published and Paul Vaughan discusses the project with the editor, Leslie A. Marchand. The final volume includes the important letters addressed to
Scrope Davies which were found in 1976 in a trunk in Barclays Bank, and the poet Peter Porter considers their place in the correspondence. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Peter Paterson reporting with voices and opinions from around the world Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by Peter Evans What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
The People of the Sea (6) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
