with Radio 4 In Wales, Gerry Monte looks at items of interest to farmers In the Principality.
Producer WYRE THOMAS BBC Wales
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Tlmpson 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
Read by Pauline BUSHNELL
7.25 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Peter Jefferson
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives
Producer KATE FENTON
(Rptd: Friday 11.45 pm)
In Wales
Mavis Nicholson and some of Wales's wittiest personalities, including actor Victor Spinettl and author Leslie Thomas, live from the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.
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A Question of Money Second of two programmes
The Money Box team answers questions on personal finance put by listeners in Swansea.
(Full details Sat 12.2 pm) long wave only
The Last Show byGRAHAM EDWARDS
Read by Sldn Probert Producer mitch raper long wave only
nem, p 58: Sanctaidd, sanctaidd (Emynau a Thonnau 1); Father of heaven (mhb 38); 11
Timothy 4, 1-11 (cnb);
We give tmmortal praise (mhb 40)
followed by travel long wave only
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Presented by Dannie Abse
Readers RAY SMITH and ROSALIND SHANKS Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Bill Breekon Editor joiin GETGOOD
Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo. Peter Jones and Jan Ravens submit themselves to the discipline of Nicholas Parsons (or not).
Devised by ian MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor direct from a Rhondda factory. Nowadays there are only two working pits left in the South Wales valley - one of those is to close soon - and more women are in work than men.
Woman's Hour finds out what life is like in the Rhondda today.
Guests Glyn Houston and members of the Cory Band
Producers
MEGAN EMERY, MARK OWEN long wave only
The Light of Heart by EMLYN WILLIAMS with William Squire and Sharon Morgan Maddoe Thomas , a distinguished actor in his time, has seen better days. But his daughter Catrin is determined that through her strength he will gain his entitled revival.
Adapted for radio and directed byENYD WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Gold has been mined in Wales since pre-Roman times but more fortunes were probably lost than were made in the process. Now prospectors are again at work in the old mines and Rob Orchard investigates their chances of striking it rich.
(First broadcast on Radio Wales)
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas follows one of the routes by which the Normans penetrated and held
South Wales. He journeys on horseback from
Crickhowell to Pembroke visiting castles and recalling some of the historic events.
Day 1: Crickhowell to Brecon
Research johnathan DAVIES Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales
Presenters Chris Lowe and Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS on VHF until 5 55
5,50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with i.At;niE macmillan including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
The Fine Tuning of Ivor Gurney by TIM ROSE PRICE with Michael N. Harbour and Jonathan Owen An impressionistic dramatisation of the tragic life of the Gloucestershire poet and composer Ivor Gurney , who spent his last years believing himself to be persecuted by wireless waves and electrical interference.
Pianist HAROLD RICH
Directed by ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm) (The /nit effect of this programme can be heard by listening on stereo headphones)
' I don't know why the desire to paint should cling so tenaciously to a corner of one's soul.'
At the age of 50. Michael Vincy has at last got down to painting - the wild, overpowering landscape of the Atlantic coas;t of Ireland.
includes reviews of Twelfth Night, John Ca'ird's new RSC production starring Zoe Wannamaker , Gemma Jones , John Thaw and Daniel Massey at
Stpatford-upon-Avon: and Tootsie, a comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman as an out-of-work actor who auditions for a female role in a television soap opera.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN powell Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod
Presenter Colin Tudge Producer DEBORAH coiien
The Road to Oxiana (6) long wave only
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Weather report: forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
