Presented from Wales by Handel Jones
A regional view of farming in the week ahead. BBC Wales
A meditation for the beginning ofanewday.
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With ROGER PARRY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE rosun
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Robert Booth
puts his ear to the Sound Archives and hears the unexpected.
Producer FRAN ACHESON
The 'live' talk programme that takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of the coming week.
Producer IAN STRACHAN Stereo
talks about the 100 caring years of the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association - better known to generations of serving and ex-service families asSSAFA.
by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty
A miracle? And, if not, what makes a picture of Christ, in a remote village in Tuscany, smile in the sunlight? Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 122; Glorious things of thee are spoken (BBC HB 176); Psalm 8; Isaiah 11, vv 1-9; Thou, whose almighty word (BBC HB 185) Stereo
A series in which a current religious or moral topic is examined.
2: From Caffeine to Coke
Why do so many people take drugs that will eventually destroy them? Bernard Jackson examines the world of the drug addicts and those who work with them. Is drug abuse a sign of a spiritual vacuum in the lives of people literally dying for their next fix?
Producer and series editor JOHN NEWBURY (Revised repeat)
Paul Heiney presents the only national radio programme for consumers.
Editor KEN VASS
The World of Nature
This week: Domestic Animals Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from
BOB NEWHART. PETER COOK
TONY HANCOCK. MICHAEL BENTINE TIM BROOKE TAYLOR and GRAHAM CHAPMAN
A dog who thinks he is man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
(FRAN LEBOWITZ)
Written by SIMON BRETT Producer RICHARD EDIS
Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner This week: Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes Presented by KIM CLIFFORD Storyteller CHRISTOPHER lilucrap Today's story: The Quangle Wangle's Hat by EDWARD LEAR Script by LEE PRESSMAN
2.5 Playtime
2.20 Introducing Science Unit
2: Never too Late
2.40 Astronomy Why is the Sun? Presented by HEATHER COUPER Written by JACQUELINE MILTON
Introduced by Liz Mardall
A tale of two weavers: the first of an occasional series in which PHIL SMITH reports on the changing tempo of Lancashire life.
No Comebacks and Other Stories
Seven stories by FREDERICK FORSYTH abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE Read by Sean Barrett 1: No Comebacks
'I want a job done. A contract.
What I believe is called a hit....' (Music: Lennox Berkeley's Sextet for clarinet, horn and strings) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Love's Old Sweet Song by OWEN HOLDER
Stereo
A further informal anthology from Wales BBC Wales
Producer MEGAN EMERY
Dead Man Leading by v. S. PRITCHETT abridged in ten parts by BRIAN GEAR
Read by Michael Cochrane (1) Three men on a tragic expedition up the Amazon, searching in the end for the truth behind the disappearance, 17 years earlier, of Harry's missionary father. Producer TIM SUTER
Presented by Gordon Clough and Phil Longman continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Stereo
Do critics turn savage because they can't perform themselves? Patrick Hannan seeks the views of Frank Delaney and former Test cricketer, Peter Walker. With DILLWYN OWEN and ANNESTWILIAM
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Can personal hi-fis cause deafness? Is it possible to prevent car-sickness by 'tuning' car seats? How do pneumatic drills affect the health of their operators? Colin Tudge visits the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research to hear from scientists about these and other strident problems.
Producer MILES BARTON
by Michael Arditti
Eleanor and Simon are spending the summer at their country estate on which Ruth and John live and work. Simon is aged nearly 12, John is 22. He befriends the lonely younger boy.
(Stereo)
Bill Fletcher wonders why we are attracted to some people and not to others. 'It's not just looks,' he suggests. 'It could be that there's a real, and not mysterious, chemical base to what it is that attracts us to someone in particular!'
Producer MURDOCH MCPHERSON BBC Scotland
Cannes Diary
The overwhelming impression is that everything, and virtually everyone, is for sale, (JAN DAWSON) The Cannes International Film Festival is a bazaar masquerading as an artistic event. Million-dollar deals are concluded on the beach, and tomorrow's blockbuster begins as a few lines on the back of a menu. In the more sedate world of the competition for the 38th Palme d'Or, it's ironic that in British Film Year there is only one official British entry -
Nicholas Roeg 's Insignificance - though Joseph Losey 's
Steaming and John Boorman 's Emerald Forest have been invited for gala screenings. Tonight, after 13 days of screenings, parties and arguments, the jury, headed by Milos Forman , reaches its decision on the winner of this year's major prize.
Nigel Andrews reports direct from the Palais des Festivals. Producer RICHARD DUNN Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
My Uncle Silas by H. E. BATES
Read by david NEAL
4: Finger Wet, Finger Dry
National and international news, background, analysis, and comment.
Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF/FM until 11.0
Patients' Guide to the NHS A series of eight programmes in which JENNI mills investigates how to make the best use of the National Health Service. 6: Care of the Elderly Nearly half of all the beds in the NHS are occupied by people past retirement age. But the elderly need special health care. What is available?
followed by an interlude
Voix de France: French VI
12.30 21: Teachers' Programme Teachers discuss the best way of using interview-based programmes Producer GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE and at 12.50
22: La France et la Communauté Europeenne Compiled by PAMELA TAYLOR
