Presented by Leslie Cottington A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor with Peter Hobday at the Liberal Party Assembly in Bournemouth
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
7.25*, 8.25 Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Clive Roslin
by DESMOND LOWDEN abridged in ten parts by DAVID H. GODFREY
Read by Norman Jones (1) Salto wants to rob a bank. Hiller has the computer knowledge necessary to break the alarm systems. But Hiller is on the run with his stepson and a drink problem. Salto's already paid out money. If he finds Hiller he'll kill or maim to get what he wants. Producer PETER KING
comes from the Victoria Rooms in Bristol where, in front of an invited audience, he introduces some familiar and not so familiar West Country voices.
Producer IAN STRACHAN Stereo
How Soon Can I Leave? by SUSAN HILL
Read by Sandra Clark Producer MITCH RAPER
from the Chapel of Unity, Methodist College, Belfast
New Every Morning, page 75 Father, hear the prayer we offer (BBC hb 352); Psalm 19, w 7-14; Matthew 21, w 23-32 (Rsv); Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven (BBC HB 15) BBC Northern Ireland
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by P. J. Kavanagh Readers ANGELA DOWN and GARARD GREEN
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol Stereo
The only national radio programme for consumers. John Howard presents and lends a sympathetic ear to your phone comments and queries on [number removed]. Editor KEN VASS
Johnny Morris recalls some of the places he has visited and the people he has met in a quarter of a century of jaunting.
This week: Hong Kong
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Presenter Brian Widlake Producer DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner Out and About Presented by Tim Munro Storyteller Irene Handl Today's story Bopper Gets a Puncture by JANET SORENSEN Script by SUE LIMB
2.5 Playtime Presented by Judy Bennett with Peter McGowan Producer SHEILA FRASER
2.20 Introducing Science Teachers' programme
2.40 Noticeboard News for teachers in Secondary Schools Presenter TONY BARNFIELD
2.45 Radio Club TIMMY MALLETT and the Radio Club team brings you more items of interest for 8-12 year olds
Introduced by Liz Mardall
'A gloomy job? It doesn 't worry me': PETER DICKINSON talks to
JENNY cuffe about his job as a gravedigger.
The Fall of the Sparrow by NIGEL BALCHIN abridged in 15 parts by DELIA PATON
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Time and the Conways by J. B. PRIESTLEY
A series of five programmes which take a look inside some of Britain's more unlikely houses.
2: John and Sue Kirkpatrick talk to Marjorie Lofthouse about their Round House in Shropshire.
Producer ELAINE BEDELL BBC Birmingham
Before the Wind Changed
Five autobiographical stories written and read by James Martin
1: Me, Pick and Robert Mugabe When the author was a boy, his family fled the gloom of post-war Britain and sought a new life in Southern Rhodesia, a land fit for white heroes to live in. Producer JOHN CARDY
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tuesday 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 JULIAN BROWN
George Chisholm talks to
Margaret Howard about his musical life and plays records of some of the musicians who have influenced him.
It's a very noble instrument the trombone, and yet it has this air of buffoonery about it ... Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(First broadcast on World Service)
by SION EIRIAN
Frances is learning Welsh at a residential college, her filmmaker boyfnend is location-hunting with a lad from the town. The three of them are set on a crash course that will explode their own attitudes to Welshness and each other
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART
Stars and Bars by William BOYD abridged in ten parts by JOHN SCOTNEY Read by Kerry Shale (1)
'He loved America, but would America love him back?' Henderson Dores - shy,
English, self-conscious and nearly 40 - finds himself plunged into a comic nightmare when he travels to the Deep South in search of a fabled hoard of priceless paintings.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Presented by Richard Kershaw in London and Janet Cohen at the Liberal Party Assembly in Bournemouth
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF/FM until 11.0
When Language Breaks Down A series on language disorders. We often take speaking and understanding our mother tongue for granted. In this programme DAVID CRYSTAL looks at what can happen to language when adults suffer brain damage as a result of a stroke or an accident, and become 'dysphasic'. With MARGARET FAWCUS
Advanced Level: English Charles Dickens with DR STEPHEN GILL
12.30 'Life and Times' (1)
12.50 'Life and Times' (2) Producer STUART EVANS