Market prices and Intelligence, the weather, and what's new for farmers.
6-25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV DAVID PARTRIDGE
7.0,8.0 Today's News nead by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
3: The Lady Wife
conducts 55 minutes of interviews, conversation and discussion with his guests live in the studio. Including The Week So Far by Russell Davies
Producer JENNY DE YONG
Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50, from bookshops
NEM, p 97; Father of mercies (BBC HB 189);
Psalm 33, vv 1-12; Wisdom Of Solomon 1, v 16 and 2, vv 1-3, 21-24 (RSV); Thou, whose almighty word (BBC HB 185) long wave only
The Interlopers by SAKI
Read by Richard Hurndall So you're not killed, as you ought to be. but you're caught anyway! Caught fast! Oh. what a lest! Snared in your stolen forest. There's justice for you.'
Britain's substantial network of waterways is falling into disrepair. Can we afford to save it? Andy Price reports.
Presenter Jenni Mills
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12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics In and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
in Milton Keynes
From the new Open
University studios, Sue MacGregor introduces John Dankworth and some of the other 98,000 people who live and work in the 34-square-mile new town in the heart of the Buckinghamshire countryside.
Producers PAT TAYLOR and JANET THOMAS Kidnapped (10)
Fr Valentine's Day by RAYMUND FITZSIMONS with Richard Hurndall John Levitt and Bryan Murray
' When the new
St Gregory 's is built, it will rise like a hymn of glory to God. Future generations will visit it as they now visit Chartres.'
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
(First broadcast in 1978)
In the last of six programmes
Norman Thelwell turns his back for a moment on Penelope and her ponies to take in the view from his studio window in Hampshire.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Annerton Pit (8)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Sounds and scenes from a past year challenge the memories of residents
Terry Wogan and Ann Meo and guests Joan Bakewell and Peter Hobday
Chairman Richard Stilgoe Questions set by LIBBY SPURRIER
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
Written by JAMES ROBSON
Cast for the week:
Investigations into unfairness, fraud and injustice. Presented by Roger Cook (Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
Described as ' one of Britain's fastest-growing hobbies', the study of family history holds fascination for many people, whether it's discovering the origin of a surname or family tree, or whether it's unearthing an illustrious connection or even a skeleton in the family cupboard. You can hear again the advice given to the many listeners who phoned the experts,
Don Steel and Gordon Honeycombe , in pursuit of their own past.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Nick Clarke
Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor STUART SIMON BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
includes Children of a Lesser God, a play which explores the relationship between a deaf girl and her teacher, and has its British premiere at the Mermaid Theatre after winning three Tony
Awards on Broadway; and Joan of Arc - the Image of Female Heroism by MARINA WARNER.
Presenter Jeffrey Richards Producer
CLARE SELERIE
with Alexander MacLeod
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Prepared for radio in 26 episodes by Brian Sibley
Starring Ian Holm as Frodo, Michael Hordern as Gandalf and Robert Stephens as Aragorn
The Queen Arwen said, 'I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him now when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter. But in my stead you shall go, Ring-bearer, when the time comes, and if you then desire it. If your hurts grieve you still and the memory of your burden is heavy, then you may pass into the West, until all your wounds and weariness are healed.'
with John Le Mesurier as Bilbo, William Nighy as Sam, Richard O'Callaghan as Merry, John McAndrew as Pippin, David Collings as Legolas, Douglas Livingstone as Gimli, Stephen Thorne as Treebeard and Gerard Murphy as the Narrator
(Broadcast Sun 12 noon)
(Gerard Murphy is a member of the RSC)
Theme music (record BEH 415, cassette ZCR 415), from record shops
Black Mischief (3) long wave only
long wave only
Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia for late-night listening. long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
