News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With FR ALBAN MCCOY
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Written and read by JOHN LE CARRE abridged for radio in 14 parts by GAVIN CAMPBELL (14)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH (First broadcast in 1978)
NEM, p 79: The Lord doth reign (BBC HB 476); Psalm 104, vv 25-36; Acts 28, vv 11-22 (AV); 0 food of men wayfaring (BBC m 209) long wave only
by DOUG MORGAN
Read by Christine Pritchard
'She quickly checked the other upstairs rooms. But there was no Vincent. Oh God. she thought, what if the little boy had wandered out of the house while she was asleep?'
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket
Presenter Bill Breckon
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12.55 Weather:
Programme news
Presenter Peter Hobday
J-55 Shipping forecast long Wave only
With Sue MacGregor Among today's items
High Arctic: MARGARET HORSFIELD describes life In an Eskimo settlement Talking Point: ten years ago Scotland abolished Us juvenile courts in favour of Children's
Panels.
Does this system, with its emphasis on involving 'Parents, deal more successfully with young Offenders?
Kidnapped (6)
Innocent Victim by R. D. WINGFIELD
A victim of threatening
Phone-calls seeks the help of a private investigator,
: who finds there are other victims in this case - and he is one of them.
Directed by GERRY JONES
A weekly look at some of the other ' news from around the United Kingdom. News. too. of where the jobs are being created and the firms behind-them.
A nine-part series
3: Anita and Doug Lear
A few years ago the Lears were college lecturers and lived in a ' real
Coronation Street ' in the North. Today, home is a narrow-boat on Regent's
Park Canal in London, where they earn their living from a Victorian magic lantern show.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Birmingham
Annerton Pit (4)
Presenters Gill Pyrah and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather;' programme news
including Financial Report
Science
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject.....
Science is always wrong: it never solves a problem without creating ten more
(GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ) with the voices of TOM LEHRER
TONY HANCOCK JOHN CLEESE
TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN
Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (First broadcast in 1979)
Jill Todd with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
(Repeated: Sat 7.50 am)
written by ALAN BOWER
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Desmond Hawkins explores, in the last of six programmes, the ways in which some British poets have responded to the moods, legends and challenges of the sea.
A Life on the Ocean Wave Readers DOUGLAS LEACH and PAULINE WYNN
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
or The Mistakes of a Night
A comedy with an epilogue written by Dr Goldsmith
First performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 15 March 1773
In the Country and Strangers from London
At the Three Pigeons
Music by MICHAEL STEER, JOHN TRUSLER, STUART DEEKS (fiddles) MARK GOODING (bassoon) KEVIN PEEK (guitar) MICHAEL STEER (harpsichord)
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
(First broadcast in 1978)
(Stereo/Binaural)
(The full binaural effect of this programme can be achieved by listening through stereo headphones)
includes an interview with Michael Bentine , and reviews of his two new books The Door Marked Summer and Smith and Son Removers.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JANE STENNING
John Morgan reporting
Bevis: the Story of a Boy (14) long wave only
long wave only
MARY O'HARA is joined by JOSEPHINE STEWART (piano) JOHN FRANCHI (flute)
Producer GEOFFREY HEWITT BBC Birmingham
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
