A regional view of farming In the week ahead.
Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday
8.30. 7.30. 8.30
News Summary
8.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON 7*251, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Kate Moon
by TIM STOUT
Read by Leonard Rossiter The first of five science fiction short stories.
Producer JANET WHITAKER
The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of this coming week. producer JENNY DANKS
(Rev repeat at 7.20 pm)
A Dying Man and The Breadwinner
Two short stories by LESLIE HALWARD
Read by David March Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 17; Creator of the starry height (BBC HB 31); Psalm 8; Matthew 15 vv 1-9; 0 Lord. how happy (BBC HB 311)
Brian Johnston delves into the history of Chatham when he meets Mr Pickwick , climbs a Napoleonic fort. tours the dockyard. Is arrested by the Sheriff of Rochester (usa) and learns to be a one-man band.
Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners presented by Norman MacCalg
Readers FULTON MACKAY and BONNIE HURREN
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Paul Heiney with the latest news for consumers. Family finance, health, education, housing and all the other matters that concern us in our everyday lives are the concerns of this daily magazine programme. The telephone lines are open for your comments from 11.0 am on [number removed]
Johnny Morris recalls some of the people. places and happenings In a quarter of a century of taunting.
This week: France
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
Presenter Brian Widlake with views and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced by Sue MacGregor will include during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today: Rhyme and Reading:
MOYRA BREMNER looks at how rhyme can help In learning to read.
The Third MissSymons (6) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
The Gortys Triangle by ROD BEACHAM
Patricia Carroll introduces and plays music from her Victorian collection of pieces composed bv famous pianists of the day. This week:
Sigismund Thalberg
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT
Pudd'nhead Wilson by MARK TWAIN
Abridged in ten parts by NEVILLE TELI.ER Read by Michael J. Shannon (1) 1830: Dawson's Landing on the Missouri side of the Mississippi river. David Wilson arrives seeking his fortune. Producer BRIAN DEAN
Presenter Liz Donnelly Editor DEREK LEWIS VHF only 5.50-5.55
with BRYAN MARTIN
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised rpt of 9,0 am)
Somewhere Else by GILLY FRASER with How will society develop? Many writers have looked into the future. George Orwell among them.
Somewhere Else is the dream of Jo. aged 124. but old for her years. She wants to escape to
'somewhereelsefroma country that is now fragmented and filled withhateandfear.Then she meets Alma and discovers that the future has to be faced, not run away from -the future must rest with her.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Journalists
Douglas Stuart recalls some of the people he admired, and whose friendships he valued, during 16 years livting abroad as a BBC foreign correspondent.
(Postponed from 22 June)
Mary Renault
Radio 4's classic serial The King Must Die Is based on two of Mary Renault's novels set In ancient Greece. At her home in Capetown. Mary Renault talks to Sue MacGregor about her lifetong fascination with the world of Socrates,
Pericles and Alexander the Great. Reader
MICHAEL PENNINGTON
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presenter Peter Evans What is happening in science?
Producer JULIAN BROWN
The Pledge by FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT translated by RICHARD AND CLARA WINSTON
Abridged In five parts by NEVILLE TELLER Read by Bernard Hepton (1)
One wet April afternoon Police Inspector MatthU is called out on a case of murder. The place - a remote village, the victim a young schoolgirl. It is the Inspector's last day. before an overseas posting, but instead of boardinghisplane
Matthal sacrifices his career in an obsessive hunt for the killer.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
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Nine programmes in which Jeremy Slepmann recounts, with the help of letters, diaries and memoirs, the adventures and reflections of composers abroad. 1: Berlioz in Italy 'I loaded a pair of double-barrelled pistole, examined and replaced in my pocket two bottles of those Invaluable cordials. laudanum and strychnine - and, reassured as to my arsenal. went out Into the streets of Florence.' with John Woodvlne as Berlioz
Producer CATHY WEARING long wave only
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