A regional view of farming in the week ahead presented from the South East by Joe Hull

with John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by DAVID HITCHINSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

A look ahead with Dilly Barlow

goes into the BBC Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight.
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Thurs 9.30 pm)

A lively matching of wit and wisdom between some of the personalities who will be in the news this week.
Producer IAN STRACHAN

The Amorous Ghost by ENID BAGNOLD
Read by David Ashford Producer MITCH RAPER

New Every Morning, page 1; Father most holy, merciful and loving (BBC HB 167); Psalm 33, vv 1-11; Exodus 5, v 19 to 6, v 8;
Put thou thy trust in God (BBC HB 313) long wave only

Brian Johnston is in Padstow on the coast of north Cornwall. He meets fishermen, a net-maker, visits the Tropical Bird Gardens and finds out about its famous May Day celebrations, the Festival of the 'Obby 'Oss.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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with Alan Brownjohn Readers ISABEL DEAN and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol long wave only

with Paul Heiney Editor KEN VASS

Simon Hoggart goes down to John Dunn 's funny farm to pick his own crop of plums.
Producer JULIAN HALE
(Repeated: Tues 6.30 pm)

Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS

with Sue MacGregor
All the Town's a Stage: JENNY CUFFE goes to the town of Newbury to follow an ambitious community drama project.
Vanished with the Rose by EILEEN HUNTER abridged in nine episodes by ANN REES-JONES
Read by Pauline LETTS (9) (Music: Ireland's Columbine)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS long wave only

The Trade of Man by T. D. WEBSTER

A weekly look at the English language and at some of the things that are happening to it in the 80s.
Presented by David Crystal
Producer ALAN WILDING

Laughing Gas by P. G. WODEHOUSE abridged and read in 13 parts by David McAlister (1) B. K. Burwash and I. J. Zizzbaum , fang-wrenching rivals of high repute, simultaneously performed their miracles of dental surgery upon Joey Cooley , Hollywood's famous child star, and Reginald, third Earl of Havershot.
It was during the brief space of time when the gas was administered that the dirty work took place. Producer GRAHAM GAULD (David McAlister is in 'Peg' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)

with Gordon Clough andValerie Singleton 5.50-5.55

with BRYAN MARTIN including
Financial Report

(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)

Peter Evans reports from the 150th Annual Meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, held last week in New York.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

Come and test the water with Cliff Michelmore in a series about events in, on or under the water. Each week
Martin Muncaster reports on the latest news, and Harriet Cass looks at events around the country for water-lovers.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
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Paradise Garden Attained by DOUGLAS SLATER with Specially commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Delius's death on 10 June 1934, this play deals with his early life in Bohemian Paris and the meeting with the woman who was to become his wife.
Directed by ian COTTERELL (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)

with Paul Vaughan
Producer RICHARD DUNN Editor ROSEMARY HART

Falls the Shadow by EMANUEL LITVINOFF abridged in 15 parts by HILARY NORMAN
Read by MGEL GRAHAM (11) Producer ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales

with Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON long wave only from 11.0

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