Presented by Leslie Cottington
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
with David Winter
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by lauwe macmillan
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Dilly Barlow
Continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
Producer DAVID HEYCOCK
The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of this coming week.
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
by Jill Norris
Read by Elizabeth Proud
from St Paul 's Church, Birmingham sung by the Birmingham School of Music Chamber Choir
Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 328); Psalm 127;
Ephesians 1, w 1-10 (JB); Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts (BBC HB323)
BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Presented by Kingsley Amis Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and MARTIN JARVIS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Pattie Coldwell presents and lends a sympathetic ear to vour 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: Japan
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner: Crawly Creatures
Presented by GARY TAYLOR
Storyteller UNA Stubbs
Today's story The Very Hungry Caterpillar by ERIC CARLE
Script by MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Playtime
Presented by JUDY BENNETT With LOLA YOUNG
(Repeated: Thursday 10.10 am)
2.20 Introducing Science: How We Use Wood: Unit 2, Programme 2
2.40 Noticeboard
2.45 Radio Club
With TIMMY MALLETT
Introduced by Liz Mardall Pumpkin Patches are
Proliferating ... : at least they are in California as MARGARET horsfield found on a visit to Sacramento to select her pumpkin to be carved into a Hallowe'en Jack o'lantern. Cluny Brown by MARGERY SHARP abridged in nine parts by PAT MCLOUGHUN
Read by MARGARET TYZACK (4)
The Maroon Cortina by PETER WHALLEY
Part 2
The Peak District is a fine example of a National Park that could be greatly improved by some industrial estates, a couple of dozen multi -storey car parks, and a nuclear power plant
The unheroic tale of Barry Pilton 's encounter with Britain's most arduous walk, the Pennine Way.
Read by David Roper
Producer THOMAS sutcliffe
Behaving Badly (6)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.40 pm)
Some of the animals in San Diego have a treat in store this winter - their own heated water beds. The beds are the result of a study aimed at improving fertility - one of many underway in the zoo's research institute.
Anthony Smith reports from San Diego on the work of the institute, as well as exploring the spectacular collection of animals, ranging from komodo monitors to koala bears.
Two quite different men chose Christianity - but what influenced that choice? Carole Stone and Bernard Rutherford invite you to eavesdrop on their intimate conversation with Gerald Priestland and Malcolm Muggeridge. Producer STUART HOBDAY BBC Bristol. Stereo
by Martyn Wade
Greta Hall, Keswick: 16 September 1803. The events of one day in the life of the poet Coleridge cause him to reflect on the professional and personal disappointments of recent years.
with Paul Vaughan
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN Editor ROSEMARY HART
Quick Service (6)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF/FM until 11.0
People's Theatre
5: Student Theatre Several outstanding actors, writers and directors have emerged from the student theatre. JOHN RUSSELL BROWN talks to some of them, and to some present-day student actors.
followed by an interlude
General Studies
12.30 The Alliance -are they worth your vote
12.50 The Labour Party and the Unions