Presented from the South East by Joe Hull
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presenters John Timpson and Jon Silverman with Peter Hobday from the Republican Party Convention in Dallas
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
with Brian Perkins
by DAVID MALOUF abridged in six parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith (1) A group of young people work quietly in an office somewhere in the heart of a great
European city. Their industry and dedication mark them out as apart somehow from the usual band of employees but there is an even more devastating difference - their work is terrorism, and their latest project is nearing its horrifying conclusion.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
A lively matching of wit and wisdom between some of the personalities who will be in the news this week.
Producer IAN STRACHAN Stereo
Love Affair with a Double-Bass by ANTON CHEKHOV translated by ARNOLD HINCHLIFFE Read by David March Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, p 50; 0 day of God, draw nigh (BBC HB 24); Psalm 100: Acts 4, w 13-22; Nearer, my God, to thee (BBC HB 332) Stereo
Brian Johnston visits
Ullswater in the Lake District. Nine miles long, it's the second largest of the English lakes and considered by many to be the most beautiful.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners Presented by Norman MacCaig
Readers FINLAY WELSH and JUNE BARRIE Producer
MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
The only national radio programme for consumers.
Paul Heiney presents and lends a sympathetic ear to your phone comments and queries on [number removed]Editor KEN VASS
There is a big incentive to take part in big old Radio Active's Gigantaquiz this week - big prize money, big prizes, big humiliation, big death, big chance of not winning anything.
(Ed: Typesetting error: big should read gigantic)
Making the rules up are:
Written by ANGUS DEAYTON and GEOFFREY PERKINS plus JOHN BUCHAM. HELEN MURRY and NICK WILTON
Music by philip POPE and STEVE BROWN
Producer JAMIE Rix
(Repeated: Tuesday 6.30 pm) Stereo
Presenter Michael Charlton Producer DEREK LEWIS
Lola Young reads Nina at the Carnival by ERROL LLOYD Producer DAVID LYTTLE
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Living with Unemployment (1)
'I feel guilty 'cos we're doing so well.....'
In the first of two features in which he hears about the reality of unemployment, PAUL BARNES meets ANJ and BRIAN RUDDOCK and their family. The Dancing Bear (9) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Eddie and Miss Simpson by ROGER DAVENPORT
4: The Bus Conductor
Tommy Bragg talks to David Willmott about his career.
How long before the one-man operated bus makes the conductor a thing of the past? Producer JULIAN HITCHCOCK BBC Birmingham
Smith by LEON GARFIELD adapted in nine episodes by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by John Rye (1)
Twelve-year-old Smith makes his precarious living as a pickpocket in 18th-century
London. One day he has the misfortune to pick the pocket of a man who is murdered only moments later. What he finds himself in possession of dramatically changes his life ... which becomes difficult, dangerous and exciting., Producer DAVID JOHNSTON
with Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF 5.50-5.55
with PAUUNE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.40 pm)
An upmarket correspondence college, based in a characterless new town, which makes TV and radio programmes for its students and insomniacs, is many people's image of the Open University.
Peter Evans explores this popular image and reveals that scientists in Milton Keynes do not just teach but carry out research in a variety of disciplines, from the chemistry of memory to the design of windmills.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
Her Privates We by DAVID BUCK based on the novel The Middle Parts of Fortune by FREDERIC MANNING
This classic of the First World War deals with soldiering rather than fighting, sets comradeship above friendship and affords a rare and intimate glimpse of the life of the private soldier in the Somme and Ancre campaigns.
Technical presentation
DAVID GREENWOOD , DAVID CHILTON and PAUL PEARSON Military adviser
MAURICE E. JONES of the King's Shropshire Light Infantary
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo
A Sense of Theatre
So I wish you first a Sense of theatre; only
Those who love illusions And know it will go far:
('Many Happy Returns' - W. H. AUDEN )
Patrick Garland, who is in his final season as Artistic Director of the Chichester Festival Theatre, discusses with Ronald Eyre his personal sense of theatre which has informed his work both on the stage and in television, ranging from one-man shows, like Brief Lives; through the early days of television's first arts programme Monitor to mammoth musicals like My Fair Lady and Hair, which he staged in Israel; and the current revival of Alan Bennett 's 40 Years On. Producer JOHN POWELL
The Haunted Major (4)
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Presented by Alexander MacLeod in London and Richard Kershaw at the Republican Party Convention in Dallas
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF until 11.0
Training Revolution Review In the last of three programmes MARGARET KORVING recalls the new adult-training developments featured in the previous series, and asks 'where do we go from here?' Series producer GORDON HUTCHINGS
