An interview with a prominent figure in the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers Producers ALLAN WRIGHT andTIMFINNEY
A meditation for the beginning of a new day
Presented by TERESA MCLEAN 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 CLIVE roslin
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Laurie Macmillan
satisfies his sense of adventure by armchair exploring in the BBC Sound Archives. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
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
Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings, investment, mortgages, insurance, social security and the financial problems of everyday life.
Details from: Money Box. Room 4099 BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
by JAN PAGE
Read by Eva Haddon
The girl and the dog shared a narue. Sonetimes she wondered if her mother knew the difference between them....
Then the terrier was put in the girl's charge....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
New Every Morning, page 75; Soldiers of Christ, arise (BBC
HB 366); Psalm 46; Luke 4, vv 1-13; Take up thy cross (BBC HB 369) Stereo
Presented by Charles Tomlinson
Readers GEOFFREY collins and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
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
4: They Make a Lovely Couplet The writers of the Victorian era bring to the pantomime a new 'prettiness' and leavening of morality. Performers:
Janice Cramer , Carol Hall
Carmen Lynn and Charles West Pit Band and Singers under the musical direction of COLIN SELL
Written and compiled by GERALD FROW
Series conceived by JOHN DYAS
Producer JONATHAN JAMES MOORE Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
(Book, same title, £12.95 available from BBC Publications and booksellers)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner goes to Northern Ireland Hey Diddle Diddle Presented by LIBBY SMITH and MICHAEL MCDOWELL Script by MARGARET TUDOR EVANS Producer BERNAGH BRIMS
2.5 Playtime On the Farm (R) (Re-broadcast Thursday 10. 10 am)
2.20 Introducing Science Sciencescope
6: Grinding to a Halt
2.40 Topic Songbook (6) Stereo (R)
2.45 Radio Club Presented by TIMMY MALLETT
Introduced by Jenni Murray
Aristo Rock : she's the Lady who sings the blues with the group who've been dubbed 'toff of the pops' - CHERYL ARMITAGE meets LADY TERESA MANNERS and her blue-blooded band Business Connection.
Serial: Enquiry by DICK FRANCIS abridged in 12 episodes by JACK SINGLETON
Read by Hywel Bennett (5) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
By Rod Beacham
Stereo
Presented by Sheridan Morley
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
continued on VHFjFM5.50-5.55pm
with HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
Without hesitation, the least repetitious and most undeviating programme on radio with Kenneth Williams Clement Freud
Tim Rice and Gyles Brandreth In the thick, the Chair, and frequent confusion Nicholas Parsons
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
A report on the National
Farmer's Union annual meeting (Revised broadcast of Saturday at 7. 15 am)
How can a camera see in the dark? Why can it take longer than the age of the universe to test a microchip? How can machines be made to understand human speech? At the Ministry of Defence Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Great
Malvern, scientists are engaged in solving these and other more secret problems.
Peter Evans reports on RSRE's activities and examines how far such military research can be applied to industry. Producer JULIAN BROWN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Camphor and Rhubarb by CAROLYN SALLY JONES with Janet Maw as Queen Victoria
It is 1839 and Victoria is a rather selfish, self-centred young woman who passionately hates Lady Flora Hastings - 'Mama's spy'. When Flora appears to have committed an indiscretion, Victoria sees an opportunity for revenge, but it almost destroys her.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester. Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
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Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, news, and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
Lake Wobegon Days
Written and read in ten episodes by Garrison Keillor (1) A loving re-creation of small-town America by that country's 'tallest radio humorist'.
A continuing best-seller over there, the book is presented here on the eve of its British publication.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude VHF/FM joins at 12.10am
