News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from Northern Ireland by John Johnston
BBC Northern Ireland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the- Day
With THE REV JOHN CONGDON
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News with LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Ros Copland
goes into the BBC Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight.
Producer HELEN FRY
who invites you to meet some of the names who are hitting the headlines this week.
Kenneth Robinson adds his own brand of humour.
Producer JENNY DANKS
Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings, tax, mortgages, insurance, social security and the financial problems of everyday life.
A Financial World Tonight production
The Cheat by NANCY DALLAM SINKLER Read by Elizabeth Proud Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 30; All glory, laud, and honour (BBC HB 77); Psalm 22, vv
1-8, 12, 13; I Timothy 1, w 1-11 (GNB); Praise to the Holiest in the height (BBC KB 88)
followed by travel
Brian Johnston visits Ludlow in Shropshire. A historic castle, a beautiful parish church and ancient timber. framed buildings combine to make a beautiful country town.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Roger McGough
Readers NORMAN RODWAY and FRANCES HOROVITZ Producer BRUN patten BBC Bristol Requests to:
Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Jennl Mills Editor JOHN GETGOOD
Another rhetorical extravaganza in which Kenneth Williams Derek Nimmo
Sheila Hancock and Gyles Brandreth submit themselves to the unhesitating, undeviating and unrepetitious discipline of Nicholas Parsons (or not).
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Tues 10.30pm)
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
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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:
Hazel Paints a Picture (5):
JOHN FITZMAURICE MILLS takes HAZEL AMOR for a master class.
A Hidden Paradise: JILL BURRIDGE visits the Chelsea Physic Garden which goes public this week.
The Watcher Bee (9) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Colourblind by BRIAN ASHBEE
An occasional series about people who are happy at their work. 5: The Psychologist: Don Rowan
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Goodbye to All That (6)
with Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS on VHF until 5.55
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With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
A Vow of Silence by ALAN DRURY , with . I have decided not to speak any more. This tape will be, as it were, a final fling.'
When Judy, a university student, makes a decision to stop speaking, her action has far-reaching consequences for her peer group that tends to live by the witty manipulation of language. Eight years later, the post-graduate life and loves of the same group reveal the reason for Judy's action. other parts played by JOHN WEBB , JAMES BRYCE STUART ORGAN, HILDA
SCHRODER, MIRANDA FORBES MADI HEDD. Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Since 1972 the church In Indonesia has undergone a cultural transformation: Gamelan orchestras, dance and drama, traditional craft and Balinese architecture have replaced the Western trappings of missionary enterprise. Chris Sugden sees a parable in Bali that could be interpreted elsewhere in the church. Producer DAVID GRAIG
includes a review of Fanny and Alexander which Ingmar Bergman says is his last feature film for the cinema and is the sum total of his life as a film-maker.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and ppinions from around the world. Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presenter Peter Evans What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
by Robert Byron, abridged in ten parts by Donald Bancroft
Read by Robert Powell
The pungently witty and perceptive record of a journey through Persia and Afghanistan in 1933-4 by two young Englishmen.
BBC Bristol
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