Presented from Wales by Handel Jones
A regional view of farming, including a preview of this week's Royal Welsh Show at Llandelwedd
BBC Wales
A meditation for the beginning of a day
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Charlotte Green
Puts his ear to the Sound Archives and hears not angels but Anglicans. **TOducerFRANACHESON
Today's guests appear before an audience in the Opera House,
Buxton, as part of the Buxton Festival
Producer IAN STRACHAN
(Tickets can be obtained from the Festival Box Office) Stereo
Stock and how to keep it, tales and their tellers, things to grow and crops to keep all catch
Jeanine McMullen 's eye as she tours the countryside in search of rural Britain and its people. Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
An information pack for the series will be available, free, from October. Send an A5 sae to
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by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
'It's a hot dull afternoon in a small American town. Suddenly there's a knock at the door and a stranger is standing on the doorstep. Her name is Toots.'
New Every Morning, page 75; Jesu, our hope, our heart's desire (BBC HB 126); Psalm 146; Acts 2, w 22-32; Forth in thy name, 0 Lord, I go (BBC HB 406) Stereo
Brian Johnston , not the first to follow in the footsteps of George Orwell , visits Wigan in Lancashire. He discovers a few personalities in occupations which might have puzzled the author: the wildlife warden for Wigan's green spaces, for example; or the piermaster of the pier which, according to Orwell, did not exist. Producer ANDREW VIVIAN BBCBristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by John Mole ReadersJILL BALCON and MARTIN JARVIS producer MARGARET BRADLEY Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, BristDlBS82LR BBCBristol. Stereo
Pattie Coldwell presents the only national radio programme for consumers. Editor KEN VASS
The quiz that takes you into the unpredictable reaches of how to get there - and back. In the pilot's seat
Christopher Matthew
With feet firmly on the ground Sue Arnold, Joan Bakewell and Nicholas Coleridge
Departures from the script announced by Peter Donaldson Tour organiser JENNIE CAMPBELL Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
Further adventures of Big and Little by SUE LIMB, with ROY KINNEAR and KENNETH WILLIAMS Narrator jo MANNING-WILSON (1) Producer COUN SMITH
Introduced by Dilly Barlow
Silence: MONICA suswin explores the power of silence; an individual or group experience which can be delightful or deadly.
Serial: Joanna Godden by SHEILA KAYE-SMITH
Read by JENNIE GOOSSENS (11) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Lucky 13 by PETER SIMPKIN
Stereo
Fritz Spiegl 's illustrated, anecdotal and random ramble through the minefield of musicians' jargon and shop-talk.
3: Bands, Bumping Up and Burn Fiddles
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester
Another Self by JAMES LEES MILNE
Read by PETER HOWELL
6: Inspecting the Troops
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
More slogans, catchphrases and sayings
Anne Diamond
Humphrey Lyttelton and Brian Johnston endeavour to control Nigel Rees Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON
Stereo
Mischa Maisky talks to
Margaret Howard about his musical life and influences and plays some favourite records. Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol. Stereo
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN
I, Claudius by ROBERT GRAVES
Radio version by ERIC EWENS adapted by GLYN DEARMAN
A new production of Robert Graves 's classic novel to celebrate the author's 90th birthday.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
Stereo
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1: Orcadiana
In the far north Neville Garden visits the island group of Orkney and its St Magnus Festival founded by the composer Peter Maxwell Davies. Producer JOHN ARNOTT
('The Glasgow Citizens" tomorrow at 9.45pm)
The MeGuffin byjOHNBOWEN
Read by HUGH DICKSON (6)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
