News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
Presented from Northern Ireland by John Johnston BBC Northern Ireland
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Presenters John Tlmpson and Wendy Jones
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
sallies forth into the BBC Sound Archives in search of the sublime and the ridiculous.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather; travel
Fifty-five minutes of unpredictable and lively conversation from the fiersonalities who will be n the news this week. Producer peter estall
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nem 54; Breathe on me, breathofGod(BBChb
1481: Psalm 48: I Peter 3. vv 1-12 (nsv); To thee, 0 comforter divine (BBC HB 164) long wave only
When the Waters Came by ROSAMUND LEHMANN
Read by Anna Sharkey ' The thaw came not gradually but with violence, overnight. By the afternoon, the village street was gone, and a turbulent flood raced between the cottages. The farm was beleagured. Wherever you looked, living waters leaped with overlapping voices. She felt light-headed, dizzy, as if she. too. must be swept oft and dissolved... Producer mitcu raper
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Brian Johnston visits Saddleworth, Lancs
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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 BBCBristol
(Repeated: Fri 4.5 pm) Requests to:
Poetry Please
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News. views and advice for consumers.
The Sinple Parent inaseriesoffiveItems, Jenny Danks examines the practical problems facing one-parent families, and asks what help Is available.
1: Money Problems
Presenter Jennl Mills Editor JOHN GETGOOD
[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)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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introduced by Laura de Vere
including during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today:
It's my Delight on a Shiny Night: CINDY SELBY goes on the trail of the poacher.
Emergence of an Exhibition: TONY BARNFIELD looks at the planning and preparations for the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition.
"Get Ready for Battle" by RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA abridged in 15 parts by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by SAM DASTOR (3)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
The Woman's Hour Book, £6.50 from booksellers
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Sarah and Annie - 1910 by SANDRA FREEMAN
Celia Thomson visits London to survey the view from Tower Bridge with the novelist Gillian Tindall.
Producer Gillian hush BBC Manchester
The Canon in Residence by Victor L. Whitechurch abridged in ten parts by PAUL NICHOLSON
Read by Alan Howard (1) The Rev John Smith goes on a holiday to
Switzerland. There he meets a gentleman who steals his clothes. Very soon The Rev Smith gets a reputation for gambling, drinking and other things. Producer peter king
(Alan Howard is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Presenters
Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
Including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
And a Nightingale Sang....
A radio adaptation by c. P. TAYLOR from his stage play
A Newcastle family suffers all the deprivations of wartime, but one of them actually gains from the experience.
Directed by CAROLINE SMITH
BBC Manchester
Includes a review of Whose Life is it Anyway? , the film version of Brian Clark 's successful stage play starring Richard Dreyfuss as the young sculptor who is left paralysed after a car crash.
Presenter Richard Mayne Producer
CLARE SELERIE-GREY
Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod 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 deborah cohen
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Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
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