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Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather
with Peter Hobday and Michael Stewart
6.30. 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS 7.J5', 8.25' Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
and good company with 55 minutes of lively conversation. Libby Purves says ' Happy
Birthday ' to this week's special guest.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON
visits Essex where members of the Colchester Rose and Horticultural Society put their questions to Geoffrey Smith Clay Jones and DrStefanBuczackl
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
The Time of Testing by JOHN G. MILLER
Read by Sean Barrett
NEM, p 42; 0 for a heart to praise my God (BBC HB 334); Psalm 42, vv
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Walla the Walrus - and Others
According to his wife, David Taylor , the International zoo vet, looks a little like a walrus, which could explain his fondness for Wally and all the other walruses whose tusks and tummies he's had to look after.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
with Paul Helney
Ring [number removed]after 11.0
A six-part thriller for radio by Colin Shaw
5: Crossman - and Friends
Sir Marcus's search for his stolen Goyas has brought him to Amsterdam. How long will it be before he meets his neighbour, Steven? Or will Steven's blackmailer get to him first?
Presenter Sir Robin Day
Introduced by Sue MacGrcgor , including Guest of the Week: high-flyer Ann Welch , who started her career as a ferry pilot during the war and has since become internationally acclaimed in the world of sporting aviation. I Start Counting by AUDREY ERSKINE LINDOP adapted in 13 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by CAROLE HAYMAN (13) long wave only
The Investigators
A series of six plays 3: Novice by COLIN HAYDN EVANS
Andrew is a very intelligent and dedicated young novice who has worked in a leper colony and lectured in botany at Edinburgh. Now he has decided to try his vocation as a monk. But what do the Abbot and his ex-girl friend discover? What does Andrew find out about himself? Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIH BBC Bristol
The Song of Hiawatha Six extracts from the epic poem by HENRY
WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, chosen and read by Johnny Morris
I: Hiawatha's Childhood with MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
My Kind of Folk (2)
Today Ursula Vaughan
Williams, Vice-President of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
How Green Was My Valley (3)
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
North - Boston High School v. South - Colchester County High School for Girls
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
Government and the Governed
Six talks by Sir Douglas Wass, GCB, Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury and Joint Head of the Home Civil Service until his retirement in spring this year.
2: Cabinet: Directorate or Directory
The Cabinet is the heart of the British system of government, yet it rarely if ever reviews the general thrust of the government's policy. Nor does it have adequate safeguards against the individual biases of strong departmental ministers. What reforms and innovations do we need to ensure that the Cabinet collectively takes its decisions with a full knowledge of the consequences and alternatives and with a sense of strategic perspective?
The transcript of this lecture is in the LISTENER published tomorrow
This week looks at the state of the computer market and finds out how you choose the right system for your business. Peter Hobday reports from COMPEC 83 at Olympia. Producer ROSALIND BEW
(Repeated: Thurs 10.0 am)
Written and presented by Hallam Tennyson
' Thirty-five years ago my wife and I lived and worked in a group of villages in Bengal - 60 miles east of Calcutta.
During the two years we spenttherewecameto
Identify ourselves totally with village life. and were treated with unforgettable generosity and affection. When we left at the beginning of 1948 I was made to promise that one day I would return.' with comments bv
Professor Blplob bas Gupta, and the voices of AJIT BANERJEA ,
NIGEL GRAHAM and the people of Pipha and Raghabpur Producer
JOHN THEOCHARIS
Paul Allen presents tonight's edition which includes reviews of Dancin', Bob Fosse 's award-winning Broadway musical with an all-
American cast, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; and Gotta Sing
Gotta Dance, John Kobal 's lavishly illustrated history of movie musicals. Producer JOHN POWELL
John Morgan reporting
Busman's Honeymoon by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in six episodes by ALISTAIR BEATON with special guest
5: Crossed in Love
Producer MARTIN FISHER
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