News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
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Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day With LESLIE STOKES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 3
Plays host to guests famous and infamous, ordinary and extraordinary.
Producer BILL ROGERS
NEM, p 151 and 103-105; Brightest and best of the sons (BBC HB 63); Psalm 119 pt 5; Matthew 2. vv 1-12 (Rsv); Earth has many a noble city (BBC HB 64) long wave only
Little Whiskery Woman by BRIAN GLANVILLE
Read by Sean Barrett
'The phone calls began at night, and having the baby made it even worse. Or she'd ring in the day and talk to Pauline.
" Tell your husband he won't be in the team much longer." And then, later on, " It would be a pity if anything happened to your baby." '
Producer MITCH RAPER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. mixing the well-loved with the less familiar. Producer RAY ABBOTT
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon
programme news
presenter Bobin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor. including Guest of the Week:
Tina Brown , editor of The Tatler.
Anyone for ...
Superkarting? PAT THORNTON goes to
Silverstone to meet the speedkings, andqueens, of the race tracks. A Start in Life (6)
More Things by ELIZABETH NORTH
Lynn was no worse off than hundreds of thousands of women.
Her job was unrewarding. her husband pleasant but ineffectual, her two sons both at trying stages, but lots of women coped with running a home in those circumstances. What preoccupied her, her special problem, was Mr Chubb next door and the way he stared at her.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
A collection of stories from the zoo. In the first of the new series Michael Boorer of London Zoo enters the world of parrots and macaws- and gets a very nasty shock from a lovebird.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
presents her choice of music on the theme of spring.
1 On the evening of the last day of April we celebrate a sort of Rite of Spring. We rake all the old leaves and branches together, make a big fire, and sing traditional songs.... Producer
STANLEY WILLIAMSON
BBC Manchester
The Rover (3)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden In the Chair
John Julius Norwich
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Friday 12.27)
Written by ALAN BOWER Script editor
DIANE CULVERHOUSI Produced by WILLIAM SMETHURST
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A selection of comedy, poetry and song from revues at the 1981 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, featuring Ivor Cutler, Cambridge Footlights, Roger McGough and Brian Patten, Sheila Steafel and many more.
The Reith
Lectures 1981 on armed force in the modern world raised important questions of defence and nuclear strategy. The lecturer. Professor
Laurence Martin , Vice-chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and former professor of War Studies at King's College, London, discusses these issues of war and peace with authoritative figures who take different and opposing views. Chairman
MICHAEL CHARLTON
Producer TOM READ
A nightly review of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Paul Allen Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
with Peter Paterson
Rogue Male (3) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends. long wave only
Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
