An interview with a leader of the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers
Producers ALLAN WRIGHT andTIMFlNNEY
With SARAH JONES BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Marshall Corwin
goes into the Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight. Producer HELEN FRY
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
Unpredictable and lively conversation from the personalities who will be in the news this week
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting
The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Money Box keeps a watching brief on your money problems including pensions, tax, social security and investment in general.
Details from: Money Box, Room 4099 BBC. Broadcasting House London W1A 4WW
The Trouble with Irene by DEBORAH ROGIN
Read by Vivien Creegor
Ralph is from the Bronx in New York, and eyebrows are raised when he marries a Swedish girl from the West
Coast, but Ralph is the one who is in for the real surprise! Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 93; It is a thing most wonderful (BBC HB 81); Psalm 16; John 4, w 7-26; All praise to thee (BBC HB 119) Stereo
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by P. J. Kavanagh Readers JILL BALCON and RONALD PICKUP
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, BristolBS82LR
Presented by Pattie Coldwell Editor KEN VASS
written by PAUL BASSETT DAVIES and JOHN GERALD COLLEE
Four stirring tales in which Sir Digby Spode and the trusty Hubert Carstairs thwart the forces of swarthy skulduggery 3: The Curse of the Yeti starring
Also starring in order of good table manners -
And finally, with especially sinister chords on the soundtrack
Producer WALTER Q. PECKSNIFF
Directed by A. NIXON SUTHERLAND Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30 pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner Christopher Lillicrap reads Walter Crumpton and the Giraffes who Caught Cold by KATE WILKINSON Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Playtime In the Wendy House Presented by IAIN LAUCHLAN and SHEELAGH GILBEY (R) (Re-broadcast on Thurs at 10. 10am)
2.20 Introducing Science Sciencescope 2: On the Move
2.40 Topic Songbook (2) Stereo(R)
2.45 Radio Club TIMMY MALLETT and the Radio Club team scour the country to find interesting items for all you Radio Club members. (Re-broadcast on Wed at 11.45 am)
Introduced by Jenni Murray Getting to Grips with an Osteopath: osteopaths have sometimes been called bone-crackers and half-baked physiotherapists - not any more though, as many of them succeed in easing our aching backs. And that's not all they can achieve, but ARTEMIS PITTAS reports on the bone-fixers whose only failure these days seems to be healing the breaks in their own ranks.
Serial: Crampton Hodnet (10) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
by Allen Saddler
(Stereo)
(Broadcast on Saturday at 8.30pm)
Presented by Michael Billington
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
continued on VHFjFM 5.50-5.55
With SIMON VANCE including Financial Report
Without hesitation, the least repetitious and most undeviating programme on radio with Kenneth Williams , Peter Jones Derek Nimmo and Simon Bates In the thick, the Chair, and frequent confusion Nicholas Parsons
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
A Day Off by STORM JAMESON dramatised by ELAINE FEINSTEIN with Brenda Bruce as Lena
Every Saturday for five years George visited Lena. But it is now three weeks and she has not seen or heard from him. She tries to take a day off from her worries but the past, and fears for the future, cannot be cast off.
Other parts played by BRIAN SMITH , JAMIE ROBERTS and members of the cast
Directed by CAROLINE RAPHAEL Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
In ten years ' time, if there weren't such people as keepers, the wildlife in England would die out.
John Lewis is Head Gamekeeper on a country estate in Sussex. His father was
Head Gamekeeper before him.
Malcolm Billings talks to John about the attractions of his work, and about some of its problems.
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE Stereo (R)
David Roper presents today's edition which includes interviews and news, and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer ANNE HINDS
Editor THOMAS SUTCUFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)
ViceVersa(ll)
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
Radio Geography: Our Changing World written and presented by JOANNA BUCHAN
12.30 Aberdeen (RV) and at 12.50 Farming - Eastern Scotland Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK
