A regional view of farming in the week ahead. Presented from the North by Ken Ford BBC Manchester
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The second round of the French elections has just ended. Has President Giscard d'Estaing been returned or has the country veered to the left?
In Paris with the answer and an analysis of the result, the Today team and Libby Purves, with the BBC's Paris Correspondent, Stephen Jessel. In London John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day: Canon Barney Milligan
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Christopher Slade
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead witli Harriet Cass
sallies forth into the BBC Sound Archives in search of the sublime and the ridiculous.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
A sometimes serious, sometimes hilarious, but always lively discussion with some of the personalities who will be in the news this week.
Jocular vein severed by Kenneth Robinson
Producer PETER ESTALL
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NEM.p 102: All praise to thee. who safe hast kept (EBC HB 401); Psalm 147, vv 1-12; Romans 5, vv
1-11 (rsv); Love of love, and light of light (BBC HB 521): long wave only
The Gift of the Magi by o. HENRY
Read by Sally Mates Producer MITCH RAPER
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Presenter Bill Breckon
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C. Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife with Edward Kelsey
Book Four , Chapter Three The Technology
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Sue MacGregor presents a special edition from Oslo, the capital of the country which did not join the EEC when Britain did; the country which has a woman Prime Minister; the country which, like Britain, has high oil revenues; the land of mountains and fjords. A country whose links with Britain go back to the Vikings - and whose friendship for us is seen every Christmas in Trafalgar Square.
Close to Home by Deborah Moggach, abridged in 12 parts by Ann Rees Jones. Read by Frances Jeater (5)
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The Treadgold Conspiracy by MALCOLM STEWART
Naturalist Bobby Tulloch shares the pleasure of a favourite walk along the shore of his native island of Yell in North Shetland. Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland
by Susan Hill, abridged in eight episodes by Brian Gear
Read by Gary Bond
Shellshocked and at home in 1916, John Hilliard cannot break through his sense of isolation from his family, his sister. He has nightmares, yet he wants to return to France.
Presenters Joan Bakewell and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
(Repeated. Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revise repeat of 9.5 am)
by Rosamond Lehmann, dramatised by Elspeth Sandys
with Janet Suzman, Susan Engel, Christopher Casenove and Maureen O'Brien
The two sisters met in order to be reconciled after 15 years. Various ghosts lay between them and not least the ghost of Rickie - husband of Madeleine and lover of Dinah.
"Let us agree to give up
Love
And root up the infernal grove;
Then we shall return and see
The worlds of happy
Eternity.
And throughout all
Eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me"
Includes reviews of Cats, the new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical; and the award-winning film Melvin and Howard, starring Jason Robards as Howard Hughes.
Presented by Colin Ford
Presented by Georgina Ferry
What is happening In science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by VLADIMIR VOINOVICH translated by RICHARD LOURIE abridged in 12 parts by MATTHEW WALTERS
Read by ANDREW SACHS (8) Producer
MARGARET WINDHAM long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
