News, weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside newe, market trends and weather.
Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
with John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.90, 7.90. 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CLIVE ROSLINE
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
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Is that knee still hurting? Do sports injuries deserve special treatment? Should you try to run through your pain? Are some people injury prone? Do athletes demand too much of their bodies? Phone David lcke in the Birmingham studio with yoursportsinjury queries or to follow up last night's Radio 4 documentary, with Dr Noel O'Brien honorary doctor to the British Olympic Association; Bernard Thomas , physiotherapist to the England and Warwickshire cricket teams, and Mike Rawson , former 800 m European champion and now an experienced senior coach at the famous
Birmingham athletics club, Birchfield Harriers. Producers GWYN RICHARDS and JOCK GALLACHER BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in— the politics and the people.
A Strange Mourning by CATHERINE MACIVER
Read by Sheila Donald Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland
Goliath
NEM, p 38; Praise to the Holiest in the height (BBC HB 88);
Chrisle, Redemptor Omnium (Carols for Choirs III, p 12); I
Samuel 17, vv 38-51, From glory to glory advancing (BBC HB 244)
Cage Bird by JEREMY TIPTAFT
If you play the game of life strictly by the rules and always conform like Manners. it seems terribly unfair that a rebel like Benson can come along and turn everything topsy-turvy ... and maybe even getawaywithit!
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
If a worm gets cut in half, how do those bits manage to stay alive? The naturalists tie up the loose ends of your wildlife questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Paul Heiney with more news and advice for consumers. If you have any comment* on today's items, ring [number removed]after 1100 am.
A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell
Presenter Sir Robin Day and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by \Sue MacGregor including
Alternative Technology:
PHIL RICK MAN reports on a serious approach to alternative technology.
The Ladies of Lyndon (10)
What Brothers Are For A classical comedy by STEVE GOOCH
It's a mess. Terry's in love with Sheila Martell. Dave and Brenda have failed to take precautions. Ray gets everything mixed up. and everyone'6 worried about Dad gettingout.
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
Travellers' Tales
\Erik de Mauny , former BBC foreign correspondent, discovers gold and some accompanying perils on a journeyaroundSiberia. Producer JUIJAN HALB
I worked with the great Marie Lloyd-that was a feather in my cap — I was on her very last bill before she retired.
Ben Warris looks back on the great names-and bizarre happenings he's known in 60 years of show business.
Compiled and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS
(First broadcast on Radio Wales)
A Kind of Treason (9)
with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
with BRYAN MARTIN
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
Another chance to hear half an hour of head-thumping humour in the company of Willie Rushton and guests Gordon Clyde, Sally Grace, David Ttmson and Jan Waters
Everything you ever wanted to know about the office party but were afraid to remember.
Written by GUY JENKIN BARRY BOWES. GEOFFREY ATKINSON , JOHN LANGDON and KEN ELLIS Producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
What's new in medical science?
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care—from the research laboratory and theoperatingtheatretothe dentist's chair and the cp's surgery.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
When Hunter Davies challenged Bookshelf listeners to produce a contemporary ghost story hundreds of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural poured in. A selection of some of the best is read in the first of two programmes.
A portrait of the composer who embodied in his music the sensuousnessandproud passion of the Spanish character, and of the humble, ascetic little man once described by Stravinsky as 'the most unpitying religious natureIhaveeverKnown" Written and presented by TRADER FAUIJtNER
Producer ARTHUR JOIINSON
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed],
6.30-10.0 pm. Handbooks of aidsandpublications,[address removed]
including interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer DANIEL DOBB
with Alexander MacLeod andvoicesandopinionsfrom around the world
The fifth of six entertainments to help you beat the weather as David Barlow ,
Peter Christie , Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis make the attempt to be reasonably together with their special guests
The East Side Torpedoes Producer
DANNY GREENSTONE
Ask Mamma
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Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
