News. weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead, presented from the South East by Bryan Platt
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Presenters John Timpson. and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV DR JOHN NEWTON
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Christopher Slade
Bring on the Girls by P. G. WODEHOUSE and GUY BOLTON abridged in ten parts by RICHARD USBORNE
Read by Robert Powell
Two Englishmen collared the Broadway musical in the 20s. Their shows were full of charm, as opposed to the burlesque of the time.
A light hearted reminiscence by two lifelong friends.
Producer PETER KING
Unpredictable conversation from the people who will be in the news this week. Uncalled for appearance by Kenneth Robinson.
Producer PETER ESTALL
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NEM. p 122; Blest be the everlasting God (BBC HB 486): Psalm 34. vv 11-22; 1 Peter 2, vv 4-12 (RSV); We give immortal praise I RP 93) long wave only
The End of the Flight by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Read by Neville Phillips Producer MITCH RAPER
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Brian Johnston visits Huntingdon, once a county town but now part of Cambridgeshire. Famous as the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell , it's an expanding town with a lot of light industry as diverse as the manufacture of plastic garden gnomes and Lola racing cars.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by p J. Kavanagh
Readers
DAME CELIA JOHNSON and JOHN CARSON Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills Editor DAVID HARDING
A series distilling the wit of six British humorists.
Adapted and presented by Barry Took with the vocal assistance of Alec Bregonzi, Nell Brennan, Sue Holderness, Michael McClain and as the announcer John Marsh.
(Repeated: Tues 10.30pm)
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Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions, your letters and other items.
Among those today
Collecting: advice and anecdotes from
DAVID BENEDICTUS.
Curtain Up: on the world of arts and entertainment with TONY BARNFIELD.
A Childhood in Scotland by CHRISTIAN MILLER abridged in six parts by MONICA GREY Read by Annette Crosbie
(1) Christian Miller 's home, during the 1920s and the first ten years of her life, was her father's castle in the Highlands of Scotland. She preferred the ghosts to the people. The people. ' despotic and changeable, governed her world with alarming inconstancy. The ghosts, on the other hand, could be relied on to haunt in a calm and orderly manner.'
(Music Arnold's Serenade for Small Orchestra)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Leave it to Psmith by p. G. WODEHOUSE
Presenters Gordon Clough and Gill Pyrah on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including.Financial Report
Graeme Garden Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor Willie Rushton play some of the games that killed the art of conversation. Chairman
Humphrey Lyttelton Accompanied by COLIN SELL
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
House Wives by LOUISE PAGE
A house wife is what Clementine Houlden would like to be, only the house in question is the House of Commons. She wants to enter Parliament as a Labour MP but her ambition is nothing without popular support. Neither her husband.
Stephen, nor her mother, Dot. provide encouragement, and Clementine has to struggle alone, as her granny. Violet, an ex-suffragette hunger striker, had to do in days gone by. Directed by
VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
includes reviews of Gulliver's Travels, a four-part adaptation of Jonathan Swift's book, starring Frank Finlay as Gulliver, broadcast on Sundays on Radio 3; and two BBC2 series,
Talcs of Twelve Cities on Monday nights, and Six More English Towns, presented by Alec Clifton .Taytor on Tuesdays.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN BOUNDY Editor ROSEMARY HART
with David Lay
Editor ALASTAIR OSRORNE
Presented by Peter Evans Producer JULIAN BROWN
Confessions of Felix Krull , Confidence Man by THOMAS MANN
The last of 16 episodes abridged by KEITH DARVILL Translated by DENVER LINDLEY Read by HYWEL BENNETT
Producer MAURICE LEITCE long wave only
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Look Back at Summer
First of two programmes with APRIL CANTELO (soprano) and GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord)
Music by Campian.
Farnaby, William Lawes and Purcell. with floral reflections from FRANCIS QUARLES and JOHN EVELYN. long wave only
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