Presented from Scotland by Charlie Allan
A regional view of farming in the week ahead BBC Scotland
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Tudor Lomas
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Laurie MacMillan
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With Garry Richardson
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with David Hitchinson
by ARTHUR MORRISON
Read by LEONARD FENTON Part 6
Famous faces and new voices meet for a not-entirely-serious talk about subjects that interest them and may surprise you. Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Goats and goat keepers, ducks and duck ponds, bees and breezes, fine breeds and special People are all part of Jeanine McMullen 's tour of rural Britain in search of those who make a small country living. Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
An information sheet for the series will be available, free, from October. Send an A5-sized sae to: [address removed]
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
Mr Latimer is a disabled ex-serviceman who finds the young narrator stealing apples from his tree. A friendship develops - but how can she repay him for his generosity?
New Every Morning, page 9;
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (BBC HB 17); Psalm 16; Genesis 1, v 27 - 2, v 3; From all that dwell below the skies (BBC HB 5) Stereo
Brian Johnston visits
Harrogate in North Yorkshire. He finds out about its origins as a spa town and its role today as an international conference centre. Famous for its gardens, its home for the Royal
Antediluvian Order of Buffalo and the cyclist Beryl Burton. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by P. J. Kavanagh Readers DIANA BISHOP and PATRICK ROMER
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
John Howard 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 Serena Fass , Anthony Smith and Desmond Wilcox
Departures from the script announced by Eugene Fraser Travel details
CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
Tour organiser JENNIE CAMPBELL (Re-broadcast at 6.30pm) Stereo
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
Presented by TIM MUNRO Written by JOYCE DUNBAR Producer PETER HOARE (R) Stereo
Introduced by Dilly Barlow The Poet and His Day Job (3)
CHRIS ELDON LEE talks to RAY BOTT who, when he's not writing poetry, is a British Rail engine driver.
Serial: Bilgewater byjANEGARDAM abridged in 11 episodes by ANN REES JONES
Read by LOIS BAXTER (3)
Good Morning, Bill by P. G. WODEHOUSE
Stereo
Fritz Spiegl 's anecdotal and random ramble through the minefield of musicians'jargon and shop-talk.
6: Dominoes, Fiascos and Farewells
Producer Gillian HUSH BBC Manchester (R)
Slow Boats to China by GAVIN YOUNG abridged in ten parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by John Bott (l)
'It was a simple idea: take a series of ships; go where they lead; see what happens. It was an adaptation of the old dream of running away to sea.' Producer BERT COULES
Presented by Bill Frost and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Well-known phrases and sayings (and Nigel Rees ) subjected to a touch of GBH by Alan Brien , Denis Gifford Sue Townsend and Sir Huw Wheldon Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Five poets of the past seen through the eyes of poets of the present.
3: A Step into the Dark
Dannie Abse looks at the poetry Of D. H. Lawrence.
Reader PATRICK ROMER Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
Next time you enjoy sauerkraut and sausage, ploughman's lunch, a Chinese take-away, or merely a glass of beer, remember that all of these foods owe their distinctive flavours to fermentation with microbes. Colin Tudge visits the laboratories of Strathclyde
University where scientists are attempting to persuade microbes to produce yet more types of foods.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
by EDGAR WHITE
In London's cold climate Barzey dreams of home. Antigua - 'land of Vivian Richards and cricket and green, green gladness'. But he knows that his island memories are as idealised as his childhood picture of England.
Directed by PENNY GOLD
(Re-broadcast nert Sunday) Stereo
David Hockney 's stage designs from Glyndebourne and New
York are now being exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, London. Paul Vaughan talks to Hockney.
He also visits Chichester for a production of The Scarlet
Pimpernel, starring Donald Sinden ; and takes in the Metropolitan Mikado, Ned Sherrin 's sequel to the Ratepayers'Iolanthe. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
Dr Wortle's School by ANTHONY TROLLOPE abridged in 12 episodes by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by JOHN ROWE (3) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
PresenterAlexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
