Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
A meditation for the beginning ofanewday
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With TOM TICKELL
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSUN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
with this week's collection of conversational curiosities Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo
A Period Piece About Love by AILEEN MILLS
Read by Moir Leslie
The 1920s. Two schoolgirls read romantic novels and talk about 'Love'. One of the girls meets a beautiful young man who plays the saxophone in a dance band. 'It was perfect'... But they had not even touched hands ... Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM, p 38; To the name of our salvation (BBC HB 284);
Psalm 36; Exodus 11, vv 1-10;
Ye servants of God (BBC HB 287) Stereo
How do you talk to people if, through illness or injury, you can make no comprehensible sounds? At the Communication Aids Centre in Charing Cross
Hospital, Julia Ie Patourel tries to find machines and technologies that will answer each individual need, and talks to David Crystal about giving means of communication to people who can't speak. Producer MICHAEL LAWTON
Presented by Pattie Coldwell
by LEN DEIGHTON
2: The House in Geneva
Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner: Today's story: The Fastest Snail on Earth by Moira Smith
2.5 Something to Think About: It Can Be Seen, It Can Be Heard
2.15 The Song Tree: Jesper and the 100 Hares (6)
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Tree Magic by Libby Houston
2.45 Nature: Hedgerows and Roadside Verges: Compiled by Astley Jones
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guests of the Week:
The Rt Hon Jack Ashley , CH, MP and Pauline Ashley Serial: Owl (2)
Orchid by CAROL BRUGGEN
Lottie has been sitting for three days by her husband's hospital bedside. He's in a coma after being attacked by a drunk. She's finally persuaded to try and sleep, but when she does she has such a dream ...
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester. Stereo
A personal selection of poems on the theme of Water
Compiled and presented by Lawrence Sail
3: Brain-Bound or Heart-Bound Sea
Readers JILL BALCON and HUGH DICKSON
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBCBristol
Comic Quintet 3: The Octopus by JOHN MOORE
Read by Andre Maranne
'It would be impertinent to compare it to anything less than the Eiffel Tower!' Producer BERT COULES
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continuedon VHFIFM5.S0-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
The first of two programmes in which John Amis acts as guide around one of Europe's great musical cities. As pilgrims go to Mecca, Shakespeareans to Stratford, and cricketers to Lord's, so anyone to whom music is important has to go, at least once in a lifetime, to Vienna - the city known as 'The Most Musical Place in the World'.
Producer BETTY JOWITT
A BBC Transcription Service production
Stereo
A series of five programmes in which Larry Harris talks to well-known people about what was going on in the world at the time of their birth.
This week: The Bishop of Lewes and The Bishop of Jarrow - clerical twins born on St Valentine's Day (14 February) 1932.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Presented by Hugh Sykes
Schools and youth clubs benefit from a scheme to re-cycle industry's left-overs; and a reluctantenvironmentalistjoins volunteers dredging a pond. Producer MICK WEBB
The first often programmes tracing the 20th-century revival of the English folk song.
1: Ain't Never Heard a Horse Sing!
'No nation has a richer store of traditional music than England, and none is more prone to undervalue its heritage.'
(CECIL SHARP)
Music from the People is one of many definitions of the term
'folk song'. Another, attributed to Louis Armstrong , is that 'It's all folk song - I ain't never heard a horse sing!'
With Shirley Collins ,
Bob Copper , Vic Gammon , Maud Karpeles , Mattie Kay ,
Ewan MacColl , Ralph McTell , John Tarns , Cyril Tawney and Ursula Vaughan Williams Written and presented by Jim Lloyd
Producer GEOFFREY HEWITT BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Sir Walter Marshall , CBE. FRS. Chairman of the Central
Electricity Generating Board and former Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, in conversation with Mary Goldring about energy, science research, and the coal strike.
Producer DAVID MORTON
The last of five memoirs of a Hebridean boyhood by Finlay J. Macdonald 5: A Rum Affair
With the outbreak of war, many strange and sinister objects were washed up on the sandy Atlantic beaches of Harris. Some were welcome, others certainly were not.
Presented by Paul Allen Producer KEVIN JACKSON
by Anthony Cronin
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
View at the Top In the fourth of six programmes NICHOLAS KOCHAN talks to LORD FORTE, Chairman of Trusthouse Forte
followed by an interlude
Craft Studies: Using Wood Presented by LINDSAY KING Producer ARTHUR VIALLS
12.301: Wood Matters and at 12.50
2: New Ideas About Wood
