Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
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Presenters
John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day DOM TIMOTHY WRIGHT
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30. 8.0 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Bring on the Girls (2)
Dressmaking
How do you set a sleeve? How do I measure the hem of a skirt I'm making for myself? How do I finish button holes? And what are the latest gadgets to help the home dressmaker? Whether you're a complete beginner as a dressmaker or have reached the stage when you think you could tackle tailoring a suit, Betty Foster is able to give you advice in the Tuesday Call studio today. So call - to ask anything from collars and cuffs to pins and plackets.
Sue MacGregor is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
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BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
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It's All Tchaikovsky's Fault by STANLEY ROGER GREEN Read by Carey Wilson A chance meeting after a concert propels Peter unwillingly towards marriage. Even on his wedding day he remains a reluctant groom .. Producer BRUCE YOUNG BBC Scotland
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Warren by MARTYN WADE long wave only
The special edition with topics suggested by you the listener. Your letters, your favourite sounds. and the mystery sound competition.
Presenter Derek Jones Producer JEFFREY COHEN BBC Bristol
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News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Jenni Mills
The only local radio station broadcasting to you wherever you are in the nation.
Written and performed by Helen Atkinson-Wood Angus Deayton
Geoffrey Perkins Philip Pope and Michael Stevens with additional material by RICHARD CURTIS
Music by PHILIP POPE
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE (Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
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Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Among today's items Stops-Starts:
KAY ALEXANDER introduces a quiz to test your knowledge of noises under the bonnet of your car, with advice from STAN EVANS.
My New Name is Simon: MARY REDCLIFFE worked with Vietnamese children in Hong Kong.
A Childhood in Scotland (2) long wave Only
by JAMES HILTON (3)
Harry Soan looks back at six villages which have been his home - and some of the folk who gave them their character.
4: In the Midlands
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Robert Layton illustrates the talent he encountered during a visit last year to the Music
Conservatories of Shanghai and Peking, and examines the conditions in which music has developed since the restrictions imposed by the Cultural Revolution. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
The House in Dormer Forest
6: The Compromise
Presenters Gill Pyrah and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain
Shinley Court School, Birmingham v. Great Barr School, Birmingham
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
Although they are less well known than the Aztecs or the Incas, the Taironian Indians, who were mountain people from north-eastern Colombia, built sophisticated cities in stone.
The most important of these sites was sacked by the Spanish around 1600, when the Taironian culture was destroyed, and it disappeared beneath the tropical jungles of the Sierra
Nevada of Santa Marta. It was not discovered again until 1976. Now, archaeologists have cleared 2,000 kilometres of stone paths and many dwellings.
Anthony Smith , who has visited the site, gives his impressions of The Lost City.
Contributors Alvaro Soto
Louisa Tourbay Reader ANDREW SECOMBE
Producer
DAVID PERRY.
(Repeated: Fri 11.5 am) (Anthony Smith presents A Sideways Look at ... Friday 9.45 am)
A six-part series
2: The Civil Service is Too Big
Hugo Young investigates the popular charge that the Civil Service is too big with, among others, the man sent in by Mrs Thatcher to scrutinise efficiency in Whitehall, Sir Derek Rayner , and serving civil servants at all levels.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN
This edition includes reports on facilities for blind football fans.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Blind listeners can phone in suggestions and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]8.30-10.0 pm
includes reviews of a new novel by p. H. NEWBY ,
Feelings have Changed; and Janitor, directed by Peter Yates , starring William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver , who play the roles of a janitor and a glamorous television newscaster who become involved in the murder of a Vietnamese diamond importer.
Presented by Paul Allen Producer CARROLL MOORE
with David Lay
The Edible Woman by MARGARET ATWOOD abridged in 12 episodes by DOREEN MAHON
Read by Beth Porter (1) Margaret Atwood 's first novel is set in Toronto in the 1950s. It tells the story of Marian, whose vague expectations of a decent middle-class life as a smiling wife seem about to be realised when she gets engaged to Peter. But then she meets
Duncan in the laundromat. ' I come here quite a lot, sometimes I just have to get out of the apartment. It's all right as long as I have something to iron; I like flattening things out, getting rid of the wrinkles, but when I run out of things to iron, well, I have to come here to get some more.'
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Italian Caprice, Op 45 SLOVAK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK gramophone record long wave only
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