News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead. Presented from the South East by George Macpherson
6-25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day With DOM EDMUND JONES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Dilly Barlow
again tries to set the record straight with the help of the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
Fifty-five minutes of unpredictable and lively conversation from the personalities who will be m the news this week. Producer peter ESTALL
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nem. p 54; Come, Holy Ghost (BBC HB 151);
Psalm 143; I Corinthians 2. vv 6-16 (av); Love of the Father (BBC HB 522) long wave only
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
'I suppose you could say I was just someone who had time to give away. Yet, being there had become important to me. I found that if you cared, people would respond. You had done more than just take up space in the world.'
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Brian Johnston visits Selborne
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by P. J. Kavanagh
Readers HUGH BURDEN and JUNE Producer
BARRIE BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Fri 4.5 pm) Requests to:
Poetry Please!,
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News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Jenni Mills Editor DAVID HARDING
Ken Handley 's got a problem. A BIG problem. Ken Handley 's in advertising.
Terence and the barman Script and commercial concepts by GUY jenkin Commercials by JON CANTER
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today
Milltown: the first of a series in which PHIL smith creates a picture of the North, past and present, with the help of the people who live there.
A Woman in the Billiard Room: in some sporting worlds women still find that opportunities are anything but equal. GYN FREEMAN reports.
Stepping by NANCY THAYER abridged in 11 parts by PAT MCLOUGIILIN
Read by ANNA MASSEY (4) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
A Touch of Frost by R. D. WINGFIELD
A daily walk is important to Henry Livings and today he and his dogs brave the snowdrifts of the Pennines near Oldham.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
An Old Captivity by NEVIL SHUTE abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Colin Starkey (1) An expedition to
Greenland involves young pilot Donald Ross in an adventure that is as dangerous as it is exciting, and in a strange disturbing dream that seems to link past and present, the old world and the new. But is it only a dream?
Producer DAVID JOHNSTON
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
(Repeated; Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
by Anton Gill
With Robert Lang, Petra Markham, Michael Maloney and Geoffrey Collins
Allied troops are closing in on Berlin, the Third Reich is crumbling, but in the bowels of the Von Niemand Museum of Natural History, Professor von Lowenthal and his colleagues work on undaunted. They are about to complete a 30-year project: the reconstruction of a gigantic prehistoric skeleton of a Brachiosaur. As the triumphant moment of the unveiling approaches, old frustrations, clandestine love affairs and awkward relationships come to a head. Not even the future of the Brachiosaur can be assured.
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
includes Chanel Solitaire, a new film starring Marie France Pisier as the famous French fashion designer ' Coco ' Chanel; and The Arrogant Connoisseur, a major exhibition on Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824)), English polymath and virtuoso, at the Whitworth Art
Gallery in Manchester. Presenter Paul Allen Producer ANNE WINOER Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Peter Paterson and voices and opinions from around the world Editor KEN goudik
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer DEBORAH coiien
Charmed Lives by MICHAEL KORDA abridged in ten parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by Daniel Massey (1) Talented, mercurial, kissed by the gods, Alexander Korda charmed and dominated his brothers from lives of obscurity into undreamed-of luxury and power. And in the course of marrying beautiful women, making and losing fortunes, they inspired the films that still live on. The nephew of the three Kordas looks back with affection over those glamorous years. Producer MAURICE LEITCH (Daniel Massey is a National Theatre player) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
