Farming food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
and Hugh sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day with PEGGY MAKINS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.45' nought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
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The uusterious Moor
Otmoor in Oxfordshire was once an extensive stretch of fenland. It Is now largely drained and farmed, but amid the fields of barley lies a fen meadow where the marsh fritillary and the chinch bug live among the Kreat burnets. meadow thistles, sedges and reeds.
Presented bv Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD
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A nationwide what's on magazine in which Peter purves and Gyn Freeman report on penny-tossing. belly-dancfng, egg-rolling. knife-throwing, pram-racing, mud-wrestling. pole-squatting, sword-swallowing, drummajorettlng, teddy-bears - picnicking Britain.
What's just been. what s coming soon, and what's happening.
Producers PETER EVERETT and KAY JAMIESON BBC Manchester long wave only
NEM. p 46; Jesu, thy mercies are untold (BBC HB 324): Psalm 119. pt 4;
I Samuel 18. vv 27b-29 and 19 vv 1-7 (rsv); Lift up your heads (BBC HB 178) long wave only
Williams' Jeans by PETER FINCH
Read by John Darran
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
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We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor sort out your queries.
Producerpeterhoare
Questions on a postcard, to: Enquire Within, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW long wave only
including Coping with Exams with MARGARET PERCY
4: Tackling the Paper plus JILL TODD with the BBC Shoppino Basket Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor
East End Enterprise: BOB PRIZEMAN visits some of the 700 6- to U-year-olds in one London borough who learn the violin or cello in class just as they would reading, writing or arithmetic.
Signposts: LORNA BOURKE examines the main financial considerations for women returning to work.
A Portrait of Julie (3) long wave only
The Summer Madness by JOHN P. ROONEY
On 2 November 1920 at Dagshai prison in India, a British soldier was shot for mutiny. His name was James Daly and. like all the men of the Connaught Rangers, he was Irish. This is the story of how a peaceful demonstration against the infamous activities of the Black and Tans in Ireland became a ' mutiny ' in India.
Poem read by ALAN DEVLIN Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
Fragments from a full life In Praise of the NHS
Catalina (9)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Report
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? with David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash. (Repeated: Sat 7.50 am)
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
includes reviews of An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Chris Petit 's film based on the novel by P. D. James ; and The Human Brain, a major seven-part television science series bv Dick Gilling and Robin Brightwell on BBC2.
Presenter Richard Mayne Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
A rare glimpse into the minds and motives of a teenage gang based on a book of the same title by HOWARD and PIP WILLIAMSON. For five years these five boys roamed the streets of Milltown, one of the largest and oldest council estates in Europe. These boys were the epitome of teenage bravado. The state's toughest punishments did not deter them from unashamed law-breaking - why not? They come together again to visit old haunts and talk to Janet Cohen about their past, their crimes and their most lasting common interest, the rock star David Bowie. Producer
GWYNETH WILLIAMS
Michael Oliver looks at tonight's concert.
Symphony No 9, In 0 minor
A performance given earlier this evening in the Herkulessaal, Munich
Helen Donath (soprano) Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto)
Kenneth Riegel (tenor) Hans Sotln (bass)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus, chorus-master HEINZ MENRER
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik
with Alexander MacLeod
When William Came (4) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
