A regional View of farming in the week ahead, presented from the North by Ken Ford BBC Manchester
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Chris Lowe
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read bv EUGENE FRASER
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Kate Moon
bV MARY NORTON adapted in five episodes by DEREK FARMER
Producer JANET WHITAKER
8.57 Weather; travel
and a lively assortment of guests to entertain you with 55 minutes of Jive conversation.
Producer PETER ESTALL
(Rev rpt of Sat 12.2 pm)
NEM, p 67; 0 Father, whose creating hand (BP 67); Psalm 146; Acts 27, vv 33-44 (NEB); Immortal, invisible, God only wise (BBC HB 10) long wave only
Prayerbook, New Every Morning. £2.00 from booksellers
with Tim Brooke-Taylor A five-part Journey through time, space and the pages of RADIO times with stories, puzzles, facts, weird people, a treasure trail and - oh yes - TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR .
Written by JOHN JUNKIN
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE
followed by travel
Brian Johnston visits
Bridgnorth on the River
Severn in Shropshire. The talk is of seeds, steam trains, birds, carpets and this ancient town's history.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
The first of ten programmes in which David Crystal looks at your letters on the subject of English language today and discusses usages that seem to cause most concern.
This week's studio guest: Richard Whitmore
Producer ALAN WILDING
Presenter Jenni Mills
Credit Where Credit's Due All this week
Cheryl Armitage investigates the world of credit. How best to buy now and pay later? 1: Smaller purchases - a winter coat for £50 Editor JOHN GETGOOD
9 YOU AND YOURS: p 69
This week the team run a Charity Radiothon
In aid of the Help a Local Junkie ' Fund.
Please give generously ' to Helen Atkinson-Wood Angus Deayton
Michael Fenton-Stevens Geoffrey Perkfns and Philip Pope Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON
With JON CANTER , RICHARD CURTIS and others
Music by PHILIP POPE
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE (Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today
Unwilling to School Recollections In words and music of those first few days in the schoolroom.
An Episode of Sparrows (10)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
by Richard Maher and Roger Michell
(Broadcast Sat 8.30pm)
The last In a series of four programmes
Dr Anne Townsend listens to children's questions about religion, and tries to answer them. How Can God Hear Me Prayingf
Producer judi PRICE
Treasure Island by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON abridged in 13 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by ANDREW SACHS (6) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
with Valerie Singleton and Paul Burden on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with PETER DONALDSON
Including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised rpt of 9.5 am)
The Visiting Hour by WILLIAM INGRAM
Thomas inhabits a no-man's-land from which he can observe the battles between his mistress, his wife. his son and his outrageous male nurse.
From there he attempts to make the distinction between true and false friends.
Directed by ENYD Williams BBC Wales
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
From the Atlantic coast of County Mayo,
Michael Viney talks about the beach below his cottage: the vast windswept golden strand that sees few people - and more beachcombers and harvesters of seaweed than people at play.
(Repeated: Sun 3.45 pm)
Includes a review of Who Dares Wins, a thriller film featuring Lewis Collins as an SAS captain involved in the rescue of US officials held hostage by a radical anti-nuclear .group In the American Embassy
Residence In Regent's Park; and visits the newly-restored Apsley House, the Wellington Museum at Hyde Park. popularly known as ' Number One, London '. Presenter John Jacob
Producer ANNE WINDER
Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod Editor KEN GOUDIE
Until recently two-thirds of the earth's crust lay beyond the reach of geologists trying to understand the surface and interior of our planet. But In the last
15 years, scientists have begun to study the crust beneath the oceans by drilling deep holes from a specially-designed ship. the Glomar Challenger. Peter Evans reports on what they have learnt by going to sea and how their findings have transformed the earth sciences.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
Madame Bovary by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT abridged in 15 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by Ian Holm (1)
A young country doctor's wife seeks escape from the boredom of her existence in love affairs and romantic yearnings, but is doomed by the nature of her society to disillusionment.
When the novel was first published in 1856, Flaubert was put on trial for offending public morality. He was acquitted and the book became a succes de scandale. More than a century later it is recognised as the classic it is and as the first novel to establish the realistic tradition.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
long wave only
Records of arrangements of one kind or another, including a harpsichord piece by Rameau played on brass instruments, an Elizabethan version of ' Grecnsleeves ' and a movement of Franck's
Violin Sonata performed on the cello. gramophone records long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
