News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
Presented from Wales by Gerry Mont4 BBC Wales
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Tlmpson and Peter Mayne
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 John Marsh
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather; travel
The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities this coming week.
Producer PETER ESTALL
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NEM, p 79: We watched the winter (BBC HB 435); Psalm 104, vv 25-36; 1 Peter 1, vv 1-11 (nsv); 0 Lord of heaven (BBC HB 14) long wave only
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
'Miz Mason' is a tough, independent American lady who lives 'in the back of beyond'. It's an eventful life - especially on her wedding day!
followed by travel long wave only
Brian Johnston visits Kirkham, Lancashire
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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/
BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor JOHN GETGOOD
[Starring] Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben
with Pat Heywood as Mrs Kelly, Bruce Alexander as Alastair, Robert Longden as Willy Nicholls and Bryan Coleman as Blythe
Has Ben thought before about forethought? And what would that forethought be for?
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.5* Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Laura de Vere
As well as other topics and Your Letters,
- every day this week
Sally Thompson and Liz Mardall report on aspects of life in a country with a population that is a fifth of humankind and increases by a million a month; that is about the size of Europe and embraces a diversity of races and religions. Get Ready for Battle by RUTH PRAWERJHABVALA abridged in 15 parts by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by SAM DASTOR (8) Editor WYN KNOWLES
The Woman's Hour Book, £ 6.50 from booksellers long wave only
followed by travel
The Road to Nineveh by JOHN KIRKMORRIS
Presenters
Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VIIF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
(Jiepeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
Rift Valley Blues by ROBIN CHAPMAN with Jill Bennett Peter Jeffrey and Timothy West Kenya 1938:,
Bertie Maclntyre and his guests are members of the British Colonial community. Noisy and arrogant, they naturally assume themselves to be masters of aU they survey.
A gin-fizz is not enough in the bad times though the natives, be they Masai, Kikuyu or Indian, are restless. And a new dawn is rising for Bertie and Babs ...
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Includes reviews of The Assassin, a political thriller by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated and directed by Frank Hauser, starring Edward Woodward and Michele Dotrice at the Greenwich Theatre; and a new novel by Janice Elliott, The Country of Her Dreams. The setting is a congress of European arts whose brief is to select works worthy of preservation in a nuclear bomb-proof shelter.
Presenter Paul Vaughan
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.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
Gorky Park by MARTIN CRUZ SMITH abridged in 20 parts by KEITH DARV ILL Read by Gavin Campbell (1)
In the cold early dark of a Moscow morning, the approach of spring reveals three frozen bodies. Arkady Renko , the city's Senior
Investigator, has never known failure, but this particular case leads him into the darkest areas of his city and his own career.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long leave only followed by an Interlude
