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 THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
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BBC correspondents around the world cast their collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production long wave only
NEM. p 110; Lord, thy word hath taught (EP
58): Psalm 138: Genesis 3. vv 14-19 (Rsv);
Beloved, let us love I BBC IIB 373) long wave onlu
Diary of a Moorland Winter (5)
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A portrait of the places we live in and the deep-rooted effect they have on our state of mind. Including life in A Tower of People, A
Miners' Row, Suburban Summer and Round the Village Green.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham (Revised repeat) long wave only
Wilma George chooses birds of paradise.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave onlu
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor DAVID HARDING
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
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with Sue MacGregor from Wolverhampton in the heart of the Black Country. Black also describes the unemployment figures in the area and the programme examines a new scheme to rejuvenate ailing industries. But life is not all black and there will be local personalities, music and comedy to lighten the scene.
Producers JOHN WAIKINS and PETER WINDOWS Secret Places (4) long wave onlu
Some Sunny Day by DAVID BANNISTER with Michael N. Harbour as Charles Redbourn
Wounded in the D Day landings,
Charles Redbourn returns before the end of the war to his civilian job as a teacher in a Northern crammarschool.Much has changed. The school is staffed almost entirely by women of the previous generation and is ridden by petty regulations. Conflict is inevitable.
Directed by ROGER PINE
DirectedbyRogerriNB BBC Birmingham
Presenter P. J. Kavanagh Readers
DAME CELLA JOHNSON and JOHN CARSON Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
A profile of the outstanding young conductor
At 26. Rattle is regarded ' as one of the brightest stars of Britain's music, praised and applauded from all sides for his remarkable talent. He was the youngest ever conductor at the Proms and at Glyndebourne.
Last year, he became the Principal Conductor of the City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra and he has links with other orchestras throughout Britain, in Holland and in America. Sarah Dunant talks to him and to his colleagues and friends. Producer PETER WINDOWS
BBC Birmingham
The Moonspinners (10)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long ware only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
This week, Clive Jacobs is in car country looking at transport stories in the Midlands, and asking what went wrong with the British car industry.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard
A personal portrait
Marghanila Laski
Sir Campbell Adamson Jack Bullerworth and David Aaronovitch tackle the isues raised by the audience in Birmingham
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
includes reviews of Joachim Herz's new production for the Welsh National Opera of Verdi's The Force of Destiny: and a revival of Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, starring Colin Blakely at the Wyndham's Theatre in London.
Presented by Mark Storey
John Morgan reporting
with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sheila Steafel, Chris Emmett. and the music of David Firman
Written by GUY JENKIN, JOHN LANGDON, RICHARD QUICK, JEREMY BROWNE, BOB SINFIELD, TONY SARCHET and PETER HICKEY
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE
Her First Ball by KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Read by Eileen Atkins
(Starting on Monday: 'The Magic Glass' by Anne Smith)
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
