News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks BBC Bristol
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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
Continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated.- Fri 11.45 pm)
Fifty-five minutes of unpredictable and lively conversation from the personalities who will be In the news this week. Producer PETER ESTALL
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NEM, p 21; Jesu, our hope, our heart's desire (BBC
HB 126); Psalm 15; I Peter 1 vv 1-9 (RSV); Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140) long wave only
In the Avu Observatory by H. G. WELLS
Read by David Ashford . Was the" thing" inside or out? It was big, whatever else it might be. He started violently and put his arm up. It was in the observatory, then, with him. It was clinging to the roof, apparently. What the devil was it? And could it see him? ' Producer MITCH RAPER
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Brian Johnston visits
Hcacham in north west Norfolk. The area is well known as a centre for the lavender industry.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Charles Causley
Readers PETER JEFFREY and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Fri 4.5 pm) Requests to: poetry Please
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Anthology, The Music Of
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News views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor DAVID HARDING
[Starring] Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben
The improving story of life and improving times in an improving neighbourhood.
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
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Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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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 second of PHIL SMITH 'S pictures of life in the north, past and present.
From the Sheep's Back to Yours: JILL GOODWINgives JOCELYN HAY some advice on dyeing and finishing off homespun garments.
The Third Man (5) Editor WYN KNOWLES
The Woman's Hour Book, £6.50 from booksellers long wave only
followed by travel
The Threshing Floor by JAMES FORSYTH
Cella Thomson visits
Anglesey to survey the view from the Menai Bridge with the artist Kyffin Williams.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Welsh Fargo
6: Thursday Night
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world
Including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
The Sentry Box by WILLIAM INGRAM with ' In the village they call this house " the Sentry Box", It has about It a feeling of waiting - of marking time - and finally this tall, gaunt house will bear witness to the inescapable fate of Its occupants.'
Directed by ENYD WILLIAMS BBC Wales
' The French is gone off, look you, and there is gallant and most brave passages.'
Shakespeare's Fluellen was one of the first stage Welshmen '. Why do the English regard the Welsh accent as so funny? And how many varieties of it arethereanyway?
Patrick Hannan looks at
Its treatment in literature, listens to some famous people and gets some expert guidance onWelshidiom. Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS
BBC Wales
(Repeated: Sun 3.30 pm)
includes a report from the major conference on Art and Architecture at the ICA in London; and previews two television productions to be broadcast tomorrow evening: on ITV Laurence Olivier stars in A Voyage Round My Father by John Mortimer , and on BBC1 David Bowie appears in Bertolt Brecht's play Baal. Presenter
Paul Vaughan
Producer ANNE WINDER Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Stephen Mllligan and voices and opinions from around the world Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Peter Evans What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
A Confederacy of Dunces by JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE abridged In 15 parts by LINDA TAYLOR
Read by KERRY SHALE (6) Producer ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham long wave only
Radio 4's international busintss report; market trends long wave only
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