Leslie Cattington and Martin Small report from the Royal Show at the National Agricultural
Centre, Stonelelgh, where the premier agricultural event of the year takes place.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Tlmpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With COM ROBERT GIBBONS
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
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Choices In Education What sort of nursery education might suit a shy child? How do you choose a comprehensive school? Should a clever 14-year-old drop art? Is it worth staying on to do A-levels? Last week You and Yours took a daily look at choices In education from pre-school possibilities to options at 16. As a follow up to that series, Tuesday Call invites questions and comments on all aspects of educational choice.
In the studio, educational journalist Maureen O'Connor and David Moore , Principal of Nelson and Colne College. Barbara Myers is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in.
NEM. p 17; The holy Son of God (Bp 85); Psaim 33, vv 1-11; Acts 11, vv 19-30 (rsv); 0 Christ Redeemer (BBC HB 54) long wave only
Turncoat by susan GREGORY Read by Judy Bennett Producer JOANNA TOYE BBC Birmingham
followed by travel
The Boundary by ELMER ANDREWS
Is there a rule-of-thumb ' method for estimating how high a bird flies? Do you need a free booklet on how to deal with bats? We read your letters, play your favourite sounds and puzzle you with the mystery sound competition.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Presenter Jennl Mills
by A. G. MACDONELL (1)
(Details: Wed 10.30 pm)
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Presenter Sir Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , Including Tetanus: the disease and when to get immunised explained by DR SIMON SMAIL. ,
Tasty, Nourishing -ana Cheap! who came nearest that ideal in our competition for a three-course meal for four for under £5? MARY BERRY and GAIL DUFF have the names of the winners. This Island Race: SONIA BEESLEY talks to father and son JOHN OAKLEY AND ROBERT OAKLEY about their preparations for the gruelling Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (2)
by NEIL GUNN (4)
with David Richardson , a Norfolk farmer
James Johnston , the Northern Irish tenor, looks back over his operatic career in conversation with a singer of today, Ian Partridge.
Including illustrations from records
Producer RONALD COOK
A Harbour of Refuge by W. W. JACOBS abridged and read by Manning Wilson
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Chairman Robert Robinson
Leslie Martin (retired actuary)
Elizabeth Heighway (housewife)
Neil Davies (schoolteacher)
Christopher Monro (clerk)
Including Beat the Brains
Written by ALAN BOWER
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Barry Cunliffe examines the life and work of six pioneers of archaeology
- people who enriched our understanding of the past through their endeavours, dreams, visions and obsessions.
3: Visions of Palaces Underground with Michael Aldridge as Sir Henry Layard Compiled from contemporary sources by PETER JAMES
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm) (Michael Aldridge is in ' Noises Off at the Savoy Theatre, London)
(Details: Wed 4.10 pm)
When war was declared in 1914, long high-spirited queues formed outside recruiting offices. But thousands of dockers, miners and farm workers were denied the right to fight the war ' to end all wars ' - they were less than 5 ft 3 in tall.
But in the end they were to get their war, thanks mainly to one man's efforts; they would be called' The Bantams '; and they were to prove the equal of other troops; but were to be forgotten. Wynford Vaughan-
Thomas remembers ' The Bantams ' with the help of Peter Cassidy , 17th Royal Scots
The Late
George Cunningham , 18th HLI
Arthur Davies , 17th Welch
Thomas Hannah , 18th HLI
John Lawson 15th Cheshire
George Palmer, 14th Gloucesters
The Late Augustus Pillar, 18th Welch
Arthur Riddle , 19th Durham LI
Edgar Robinson , 13th Green Howards
James Taylor , 15th Sherwood Foresters
Music ALASTAIR MCDONALD Research DOREEN STEWART SIDNEY ALLINSON
Producer KIT FRASER BBC Scotland
News. views and information for visually-handicapped people.
Hannah Wright , reports on a visit to a cookery class for elderly blind people.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm Handbook of aids and services, £2.95 from BBC Publications,[address removed]
includes reviews of John Huston 's gigantic screen version ot the musical Annie, starring
and Aditt at the Barbican
Arts Centre in London - this year's most ambitious event in the Festival of India. Musicians from the desert of Rajasthan. wedding dancers, a family of Bhopa balladeers, Tanjore glass painters, acrobats, puppeteers, toymakers and magicians are among the group of over 30 artists and performers from India who are featured In this unique exhibition.
Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer JOHN POWELL
Peter Paterson reporting with voices and opinions from around the world Editor KEN GOUDIE
The first of six programmes in a brand-new third series of roguish fun performed by Robert Bathurst Jimmy Mulvllle Rory McGrath
Emma Thompson and Griff Rhys Jones
Written by RORY MCGRATH JIMMY MULVILLE and JON CANTER
Producer GEOFFREY RERKINS
Mother and Son (2) long wave only
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