An interview with a prominent figure in the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers Producers ALLAN WRIGHT andTIM FINNEY
A meditation for the beginning ot a new day, presented by THE REV MYRA BLYTH
Producer JOHN NEWBURY 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 HARRIET CASS
7.25* 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Simon Milner
goes into the Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
who invites you to meet some of the names who are hitting the headlines this week. Producer IAN STRACHAN Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting
Radio's key to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money. Whether it is a mortgage or an insurance policy, an investment bond or a bank loan, a tax dispute or a social security squabble,
Money Box gets the answers from the people in the know.
Details from: Money Box. Room 4099 BBC. Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
The Night of the Freezer Written and read by Andy Smith
There was something odd about the freezer, not to mention what happened to the new owner.... and the old owner as well! Producer MITCH RAPER
from St Malachy's College, Belfast
A Worshipping People
Men and angels now adore thee (Bach); The Lord is my shepherd (Egan); My God, my life, my love, my light (trad Irish) BBC Northern Ireland
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners Presented by Charles Tomlinson
Readers GEOFFREY COLLINS and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS82LR
Presented by Pattie Coldwell Editor KEN VASS
A History of Pantomime in seven parts
Narrated by Richard Briers
A glimpse of the world of Joey Grimaldi and at the Harlequinade in its glory and its decline
Performers: Janice Cramer, Robert Daws, Carol Hall, Carmen Lynn, Charles West and Pit Band and Singers under the musical direction of Colin Sell
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines. Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner All Around the Town Written and presented by FRED HARRIS Storyteller IRENE HANDL Today: Bopper Goes to the Sales by JANET SORENSEN BBC Birmingham (R)
2.5 Playtime At the Zoo Presented by SUSANNA DAWSON and IAIN LAUCHLAN (R) (Re-broadcast on Thursat 10.10am)
2.20 Introducing Science Sciencescope
5: Getting Going
2.40 Topic Songbook (5) Stereo (R)
2.45 Radio Club TOMMY BOYD 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
As the drug problem increases worldwide, so more Britons find themselves involved.
JEANETTE is held in an Israeli prison for alleged drug-running. She talks to SARAH PARKER about prison life and the marriage which will keep her in the country on her release. Serial: The Reason Why by CECIL WOODHAM-SMIT H abridged in 15 episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Robert Powell (13) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Balloons by IVOR WILSON Stereo
Presented by Michael Billington
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
With PAULINE BUSHNELL 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
(Revised re-broadcast of Saturday at 7.15am)
Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly review of discoveries and developments
Producer JUUAN BROWN
by David Mercer, adapted for radio by Denys Hawthorne
with and
Werner von Reger was brought up by his father to be a man apart, despising the antics of the new rulers and the people who obeyed their orders. But by 1940 he is one of the people obeying the Fuhrer's orders and has to test a new parachute - a parachute that nobody thinks will work.
with PAULINE LETTS, RUSTY LIVINGSTONE, NATASHA PYNE, GORDON REID, EDWARD DE SOUZA, ROBIN SUMMERS and ALAN THOMPSON
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
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Pages from the diary of Stephen Boxer who spent three months in Hong Kong playing Julius Caesar - and other assorted roles - in a Chinese-British theatre company BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD DUNN Editor THOMAS SUTCUFFE
But For Bunter by DAVID HUGHES , abridged in ten parts by JOHN SCOTNEY Read by Denis Lill (l)
Billy Bunter is alive and well and living in Littlestone-on-Sea. This astonishing announcement puts Patrick Weymouth, a Greyfriars addict since boyhood, on a headlong quest that disrupts his orderly life. Producer MATTHEW WALTERS
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Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
Radio History: 14-16 A History of Ireland (RV) Presented by HUGH SYKES Producers ELIZABETH CLEAVER and NICHOLAS WHINES
