News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from the South East by George Macpherson
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With METROPOLITAN ANTHONY. Archbishop of Sourozh
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.25', 8.25' Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought /or the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Eugene Fraser
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives but comes to no serious conclusion. (Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather; travel
and a lively assortment of guests to entertain you with 55 minutes of live conversation. Inevitable guest appearance
Kenneth Robinson
Producer PETER ESTALL
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nem, 118; Have faith in God (BP 28): Psalm
46; Acts 9. vv 32-42 (RSV): Jesus, these eyes (bp 44) long wave only
The Man From the Shadows by HONORE DE BALZAC translated and abridged by HENRY BELL
Read by David March
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Brian Johnston visits the small fishing port of Ullapool in the Highlands of Scotland.
Producer ANTHONY smith BBC Bristol
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The last in the present series of some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers martin JARVIS and PAULINE WYNN
Producer BRIAN patten BBC Bristol long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers.
Including this week
ChoicesinEducation(1) Do the under-5s need education and. if so, should the choice be a state nursery school or a privately-run play group? Maureen O'Connor looks at the availability of facilities for the pre-school child.
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor JOHN GETGOOD
The last of six programmes in which
Terry Wogan. mindful of his mother's warnings on the uncertainties of showbusiness, searches for a secure day job.
Remembering that English was his best subject at school, Terry grabs an eyeshade and tries his hand as a newspaper editor.
Research LIBBY spurrier Producer HELEN FRY
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today:
Talking Rubbish; GILL NEVILL looks inside our dustbins, and discovers how science is changing what happens to the contents.
' Dear Miss Manners ...': JUDITH MARTIN , etiquette columnist of The
Washington Post instructs sue WOODMAN in the modern social graces. Morgan's Passing (8) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Broken Fences by IVOR WILSON.
Douglas Stuart looks back at four statesmen he watched in his years as a BBC Foreign Correspondent.
1: Nehru - the giant of southern Asia
Berry and Co
Presenters Gordon Clough and Robert Williams on VHF 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
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
by Alan Berrie
with Norman Rodway as Tom Fox, T.P. McKenna as Mick McCreedy and Alan MacNaughton as Jack Deasy
The death of his father prompts the end of Tom Fox's self-exile from Dublin - an exile caused by the suicide of Tom's girlfriend 20 years ago. Among those who remember the reasons for Tom's hasty departure is the girl's brother, a man with the power to wreak a terrible revenge on Tom.
BBC Northern Ireland
(Repeated next Sunday)
includes reviews of Dame Janet Baker 's farewell to the operatic stage in Sir Peter Hall 's new production of Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck at
Glyndebourne: and the Imperial War Museum's season of British films made during the Second World War. including In
Which We Serve, The Way Ahead and Millions Like Us.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod Editor KEN goudie
Presented by Peter Evans A review of discoveries and developments from leading laboratories.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
Laughter In the Dark 16) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
