Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
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Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.M News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 3
and a tableful of talkers deliberate on the week so far, and celebrate a birthday.
Producer BILL ROGERS
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nem, p 97; 0 word of God incarnate (BBC HB 191); Psalm 119, pt 6; Genesis 2, vv 4-9, 15-17 (RSV); Thanks to God whose word was spoken (BP 82) long wave only
Diary of a Moorland Winter (3)
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The traditional ceremony in which The Queen, Lords and Commons come together for the formal announcement of the Government's intentions for the next session of Parliament.
Peter Jones describes the arrival of the Royal Procession in the Chamber of the House of Lords and the summoning of the House of Commons by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. The Speech from the Throne by HM The Queen is followed by an assessment of its political implications by Brian Curtois. long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills
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Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week:
The actress Meryl Streep Living in the Past: CHERYL ARMITAGE accompanies a group of schoolchildren on a visit with a difference, to a stately home in Somerset. Secret Places (2) long wave only
Congress by MALCOLM BRADBURY
The ' silent ' Dr Vestey flies in from England to a European congress to discuss ' cultural and economic inter-penetration in the 80s '. He finds himself in a parody world of ' Franglais ' language and a sinister world of empty speechifying. Then there is Eva, the translator, attractive, loving and full of ' tristesse '.
Technical presentation by JOCK FARRELL Assisted by MARSAIL MACCUISH and VANESSA ELLNER Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
A further sequence of ribald reflections on life beyond our shores.
This week the thoughts are contributed by cartoonist
Bernard Handelsman , for whom home is New York and abroad, our own scepter'd isle.
The Moonspinners (8)
Presenters Peter Ruff and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
Andrew Cruickshank in Jn Storage featuring with Joe Dunlop
Nancy Mitchell Audrey Muir
Katharine Page
Written by DONALD BULL Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm) (Andrew Cruickshank is a National Theatre player)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into the problems of listeners which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud.
Presenter Roger Cook
Professor Laurence Martin , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in conversation with Michael Charlton about his life and work.
Next week Professor Martin begins the 1981 Reith Lectures on the theme of armed force in the modern world. The lectures, entitled The
Two-Edged Sword, will be broadcast on Wednesdays on Radio 4, repeated on Sundays on Radio 3, and printed weekly in THE LISTENER.
Producer TOM READ
Maria Aitken dips into life on the waterways, with Roger McGough. During Midlands week, the Radio 4 team from Pebble Mill are aboard a narrowboat seeing the Midlands from the canals and meeting some of the people who live and work on them.
Producer VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
Secrets of the Shopping Basket
Simple foods can more than double in price on their journey from producer to shopping basket. Mary Goldring looks at how the cost of food rises as it moves down the distribution chain and asks whether we shouldn't be paying at least as much attention to this as we do to the price the farmers and fishermen get.
Producer TOM READ
in the West Midlands
Paul Allen reports from
England's second city and wonders if all the arts in the area are as healthy as the newly re-opened Hippodrome in Birmingham.
Producer RICHARD DUNN
John Morgan reporting
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup abridged in eight parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by TERRY MOLLOY (8) Producer ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
