A regional view of farming in the week ahead presented from the North by Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
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 LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Laurie Macmillan
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
Producer KATE FENTON
(Repeated: Thurs 9.30 pm)
Fifty-five minutes of conversation between the personalities in this week's news.
Producer LAN STRACHAN
A Question of Money At the invitation of the Morning Telegraph the Money Box team takes to the road to answer questions on personal finance put by listeners in Sheffield. The panel
Louise Botting
Vincent Duggleby
Christopher Gilchrist Philip Hardman
The Wrong Number by MARK BOURNE
Read by David March Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 54; 0 King enthroned on high (BBC HB 158); Come Holy Ghost, the Maker come (Anthems for Choirs, No 44); John 14, vv 15-27; Our Lord, his passion ended (BBC HB 161) long wave only
Brian Johnston visits
Derby, England's newest city. It has grown from a market town into an industrial centre making, among other things, church clocks, jet engines and fine china.
Producer JOHN D. WILSON BBC Bristol
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Alan Brownjohn
Readers ISABEL DEAN and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol long wave only
with Paul Heiney Editor KEN VASS
Sandy Boler , Editor of Brides magazine, proposes to John Dunn her personal jest-list.
Producer SIMON ELMES
(Repeated: Tues 6.30 pm)
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
by the Labour Party
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Including during the week some Talking Points, Your Letters and other topics. Today:
Gone are the days when school music meant the sound of the drums, tambourines and a triangle. School orchestras are not uncommon now, but in Hampshire they have big band jazz, as LYNN TEN KATE discovered at Farnborough Sixth Form College. Squeak (5)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS long wave only
Dead Men's Shoes by SIMON MASTERS
A 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 MCAUSTER (6)
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
with Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
With CLIVE ROSLIN including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
Come and test the water with Cliff Michelmore in the last of seven programmes about events and sporting activities taking place in, on or under the water. Martin Muncaster reports on the latest news and Harriet Cass looks at events around the country for water-lovers.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
For the fact sheet accompanying the programme, send an sae to [address removed]
Silent Wing by DAVID ZANE MAIROWITZ
Gisela failed in her bid to change an 'imperfect society' and fled to
England, but she can't escape from the consequences of her actions in Germany and from the effects of her imprisonment in the silent wing.
Directed by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Presented by Christopher Frayling Producer BRIAN BARFIELD Editor ROSEMARY HART
Far Away and Long Ago A History of My Early Life by W. H. HUDSON abridged in ten parts by JEREMY MORTIMER
Read by Ian Holm (1)
This account of an 1850s childhood on the Argentinian plains tells of a boy's love affair with nature. W. H. Hudson , later to become known as a field naturalist and novelist, writes of ostrich chases, wrestling matches with armadillos and rides across the flowering pampas.
1: Earliest Memories
Producer JEREMY MORTIMER
News, background analysis and comment. with Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON long wave only from 11.0
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