News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day with MARK WILLIAMSON
6.55, 7.S5 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25', 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Harriet Cass
again tries to set the record straight with the help of the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer SIMON ELMES
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather; travel
and a lively assortment of guests to entertain you with 55 minutes of conversation.
Producer JENNY DANKS
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Hopper and Pink written and read by Barry Fantonl
Producer MITCH RAPER tong wave only
NEM, p 93; Come down. 0 Love divine (BBC HB 149); Psalm 34; Luke 15, vv 1-10 (NEB); Son of God, eternal Saviour (BBC HB 377)
Prayerbook, New Every Morning, £2.00 from booksellers
followed by travel long wave only
Brian Johnston visits Ross-on-Wye.
Herefordshire and learns the story of the ' Man of Roth and discovers a small industrial estate firm making specially designed timber buildings for Antarctica.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and HUGH BURDEN
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor JOHN GETGOOD
The Five Red Herrings by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in eight episodes by CHRIS MILLER starring
7: Council of War
Producer SIMON BRETT
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor will include during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics. Among these today:
Talking Point: a discussion on a topic of current concern.
Women for Westminster: SONIA BEESLEY continues her series about women who have recently been selected as prospective
ParliamentaryCandidates. (2) Christine Crawley -Labour (Llchfield and Tamworth)
The Stepsisters by PAMELA STREET abridged in nine parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by DIANA OLSSON (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
Lucien by ROGER MILKER
The poet
Norman MacCalg shares the pleasure of a favourite country walk on Arthur's Seat, the hill overlooking the centre of Edinburgh.
Landscape With Dead Dons (6)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Marjorie Lofthouse presents the third programme in the series about the Six - 0 Radio Festival.
Poet Libby Houston spent a day with a group of pupils from the Heart of England Comprehensive School. We eavesdrop on their workshop and listen to some of the poems they recorded.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
by Anne Devlin
Helen Walsh, a student protester in Northern Ireland during the late 60s, attempts to recapture the spirit of those days - a time of Civil Rights marches and fierce idealism. The reality of Belfast ten years on is a mixture of desperation, anger and fear.
BBC Northern Ireland
includes reviews of Beau Geste , P. C. Wren 's classic novel of the French
Foreign Legion adapted for BBC1 as a serial by Alistair Bell ; and an exhibition of ' Fans and the Grand Tour ' at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer ANNE WINDER Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander Macleod Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening In science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
Turtle Diary by RUSSELL HOBAN abridged tn ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT (1)
The parallel diaries of a man and a woman tell how each becomes obsessed with the captivity of three sea-turtles, in the zoo, and how they separately resolve and Jointly plot to release the creatures into the sea. A funny and gently Ironic tale of two lonely people whose untypical adventure helps them to come to terms with their own lives.
Producer MARGARET ETALL long wave only
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Weather report: forecast followed by an Interlude
