News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
Presented from the North by Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave onlu
Presenters John Timpson and Hugh Sykes
6.45' Prayer for the Day with METROPOLITAN ANTHONY ARCHBISHOP OF SOUROZH
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought /or the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Peter Jefferson
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
8.57 Weather; travel
Fifty-five minutes of lively conversation between the personalities in this week's news.
Warning: this programme contains Kenneth Robinson Producer PETER-ESTALL
NEM. p 25; In the cross of Christ I glory (BP 39); Psalm 27. pt 2; John 18. v 37 to 19. v 11 (RSV); O dearest Lord (BBC HB 358) long wave only
Prayer Book, New Every Morning. £2.00 from booksellers
Six readings for Holy Week Richard Syms reads from the homilies of FR JOSEPH
DONDRES,a Outch White Father working in an African university.
Who is the Stranger?
followed by travel
Brian Johnston visits
Dulverton in Somerset. Often described as ' the gateway to Exmoor ', it's a small market town on the River Barle with the River Axe running close by. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Charles Tomlinson
Readers John Carson and Susan Dowdall
BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! [address removed]
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Jenni Mills Editor JOHN GETGOOD
andin A Bit on the Side with and What is the connection between Baopuss and Beethoven's Fifth, and what does it have to do with the Controller of BBC1?
Written by SIMON BRETT Producer PETE ATKiN
(Repeated: Tuesl0.30pm)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave onlu
Introduced by Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions. Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today
The Village School - a Future? KATHY EDWARDS investigates a community experiment in rural mid-Wales to save the local schools.
Music and a Message:
RICHARD MEYRICK a concert pianist and an Evangelist Christian, talks to ANNE MACNAMARA.
The Upas tree (8)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
The Woman's Hour Book, £6.50 from booksellers
followed by travel
A Right Royal Rip-Off by WALLY K. DALY
Celia Thomson visits Salford, to survey the view from Barton Bridge with the artist Harold Riley.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
The Last Resort (9)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
A Dramatic Revival (1956 71)
A selection of plays from 15 years of British Theatre Look Back in Anger by JOHN OSBORNE withand
When John Osborne 's play opened at the Royal Court Theatre. London on 8 May 1956, it brought - through its setting, the manner in which it explored human relationships, and in particular through the invective of its leading character, Jimmy Porter - a new form of realism to the British stage. The setting is the Porters' one-roomed attic flat in a large Midland town, 1956.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
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includes reviews of Look Back in Anger by John Osborne , a new production on Radio 4; and The Skating Party, a novel by Marina Warner which examines the involved relationships of a group of friends as they spend the day skating down a frozen river. Presented by Michael Oliver
Producer ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Colin Tudge What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
Gorky Park (16) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report: market trends: long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave onlu followed by an interlude
