Featuring Scotland's Royal Highland Show
Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
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 ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
with her conversational guests Producer VICTOR lewis smith Stereo
Les Cottington invites
Geoffrey Smith , Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczacki to answer Questions sent in by post.
Questions, on postcards please, to:
BBC. Woodhouse Lane. Leeds LS2 9PX BBC Manchester
School Meals by NAN WOODHOUSE
Read by Mary Wimbush
When Dominic left school, he had no idea what he wanted to do. Anyway, there were no jobs available ... But then he did know what he wanted, and Mum and Dad were appalled. 'It's a man's identity, his job. You want to be somebody, don't you?'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM. p 71; Let all the world (BBC HB 275); Psalm 67;
Luke 10, vv 25-37; Rise up, 0 men of God (BBC HB 364) Stereo
How will our children be taught English in the future? Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Schools has attempted to focus attention on this question with a consultation paper, English 5-16.
David Crystal talks to
Graham Frater , the Staff
Inspector for English, about the document's proposals. Producer MICHAEL LAWTON
Presented by Pattie Coldwell
by LEN DEIGHTON dramatised in eight parts by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
3: An Egg Farm in Norfolk
Boyd Stuart has been sent to Los Angeles by the British Secret Service to investigate a film company. But he's being followed and his contact dies....
Directed by PETER KING
Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The King who was Tired of Travelling by Carriage by DIANA STOW
2.5 Something to Think About Hans and His Magic Mirror
2.15TheSongTree Jesper and the 100 Hares (7)
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): The Witches' Wood by JOE DUNLOP
2.45 Nature: Herring Gulls by MICHAEL SCOTT
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Steve Shirley, founder/director of the multinational computer software company, F International.
Exit Lady Masham (3)
by David Marshall
One spring holiday during the Second World War, Jamie returns to the prep school which is his home to find his strict and unapproachable father unusually absorbed in a new member of staff - a refugee from Nazi Germany.
Poems on the theme of Water Compiled and presented by Lawrence Sail
4: Neither Out Far nor In Deep Readers JILL BALCON and HUGH DICKSON
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN . BBCBristol
Salad Days
3: The Young Capitalists by JOHN MOORE
Read by Simon Cadell
A study into the formative schooldays of City tycoons and money-lenders.
(Simon Cadell is in 'Jumpers at the Aldwych Theatre, London)
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.5&5.55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
A First Hungarian Rhapsody In the second of two programmes, John Amis acts as guide round Buda and Pest, linked by a series of famous bridges across the Danube. Budapest is knocked about a bit, but it's a lively hive and an interesting place for a music-lover to visit, as John Amis experiences. Producer BETTY JOWITT
A BBC Transcription Service production
Stereo
A series 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: Frank Joseph , Lord Chappie of Hoxton Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
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The environment programme Presented by Hugh Sykes
Allotments: Why do more and more people want to own one? Windmills: A visit to windmill farms both here and in the USA, where they are seen as one of the most attractive renewable sources of electricity.
The Coastline: Who is in charge and should there be a national policy to protect the vulnerable parts?
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
A series often programmes
2: The Golden Age of Collecting Popular legend has it that the folk-song revival was born one summer afternoon early in the 20th century in a vicarage garden in Somerset. It is a story which does less than justice to what Ralph Vaughan Williams called 'The strong men before Agamemnon'.
With Dr Vic Gammon , Imogen Holst , Douglas Kennedy
Ursula Vaughan Williams and the words of LUCY BROADWOOD
CHARLES MARSON. CECIL SHARP and RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Read by PADDY GREEN and ARNOLD PETERS
With JOY NAYLOR (soprano) and HAROLD RICH (piano)
Written and presented by Jim Lloyd
Producer GEOFFREY HEWITT BBC Birmingham. Stereo
The British defence budget is under strain. There are strong pressures to cut down the reliance on the nuclear deterrent. Yet the conventional weapons needed to do this are expensive. Still more money and resources will have to be found to join in the 'Star Wars' research. Can it all be budgeted for? If not, what will have to give? Presented by John Eidinow.
Harry Ree , a former officer of the Special Operations
Executive, reflects on heroines and heroes in wartime France who never held a gun.
Presented by Christopher Cook
The Life of Riley (8)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
View at the Top In the fifth of six programmes NICHOLAS KOCHAN talks to RALPH HALPERN of the Burton Group
followed by an interlude
Radio History The Tudor World Presented by DR DAVID STARKEY
12.30 4: The Church
12.50 5: Towns, Cities, Capital
