Market prices and intelligence, the weather, and what's new for farmers.
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Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer tor the Day With PAULINE BEATTIE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
direct from the centre of Newcastle.
Including The Week So Far from Russell Davies, with interjections and translations provided by Mike Neville.
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NEMp 93; Lo God is here (BBC HB 264); l'salm 11;
1 Thessalonians 5. vv 1-11 (rsv); 0 God of Bethel, (BBC HB 495) long wave only
by Jill Norris
Read by Sally Mates
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News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon
with Michael Bentine
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week: columnist and critic Bernard Levin.
Persona! View: KAYEWEBB speaks her mind.
Would You Stand for ThisT: BOB PRIZEMAN examines some of the more unusual manifestations of the National Anthem.
Any Other Business:
JANET COHEN reviews some of the more domestic issues recently raised at Westminster.
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Arrangements A comedy by DEBBIE HORSFIELD with and When Sylvia discovers she's pregnant, her mother takes matters in hand. It isn't until a couple of hours before the wedding that Sylvia makes a stand; but with a mother like Mildred her chances of a fair hearing seem slim.
Directed by CLARE TAYLOR (Leonard Fenton is a National Theatre player)
1: A Town Like Alext On the first of six excursions to the Border country. David Bean visits Berwick-upon-
Tweed a city described in the Middle Ages as ' so populous and of such trade that it might justly be called another
Alexandria '. But what is it like today?
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
from Chester Cathedral
Responses: John Reading in A
Psalms 53, 54, 55 (Martin, Rimbault, Smart, Wesley, Hylton Stewart )
Office Hymn: Come, 0 cieator spirit (Veni Creator)
Canticles: Aston in r
Readings Rsv): Wisdom 9; 1 Corinthians 3 Anthem: Non
Vos Relinquam Orphanos (Byrd)
Organist and Master of the Choristers Roger FISHER Assistant organist MARTIN SINGLETON BBC Manchester
Mary Barton (5)
Presenters Joan Bakewell and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC Newsmen around the world including
Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by KDWARD J. MASON and TONY SIIRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
Written by ANTHONY PARKIN Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
An investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook
Listeners' questions are answered by Brian Heap. Careers Master at Hutton Grammar School, Preston, and author of Degree
Course Offers; and Terry Smith , Career and Appointments Officer of the University of Hull. In the Chair Jill Burridge
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
In the Public Interest The legal profession itself bears the responsibility for maintaining the standards which the public interest requires. So said the Law Society; but can we always rely on the professions to protect the public interest? In Britain, professional bodies are allowed great freedom to regulate their own affairs. Ian Kennedy considers whether the professionals - accountants and doctors as well as lawyers - listen to the people they serve Producer
JOSHUA ROZENBERG
includes a review of JAMES CLAVELL'S novel of Hong Kong, Nobel House; and a visit to the Museum of London for ' such things as dreams are mad'e on ', a survey of Denham Film Studios from 1935 to 1951.
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer CARROLL MOORE ,
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN prepared for radio in 26 episodes by BRIAN SIBLEY starring and 14: Helm's Deep
The trumpets sounded. The horses reared and neighed. Spear clashed on shield. Then King
Theoden raised his hand, and with a rush like the sudden onset of a great wind the last host of Rohan rode, thundering into the West. Far over the plain Eowyn saw the glitter of their spears, as she stood still, alone before the doors of the silent house. with and with JOHN CHURCH , GRAHAM FAULKNER , JOHN LIVESEY and the AMBROSIAN SINGERS Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN OLIVER
Episode adapted by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
Directed by JANE MORGAN
Three stories by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Read by Roy Dotrice
1: Mr Higginbotham 's Catastrophe
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