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, with SYLVIA SANDYS BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Marshall Corwin
goes into the Sound Archives. Producer KATE FENTON
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
A lively matching of wit and wisdom between some of the personalities who will be in the news this week.
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 and the financial problems of everyday life.
Details from: Money Box, Room 4099. BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A4WW
A Contract and the Small Print
Written and read by Andy Smith
Willie is not a nice man.
Willie would do anything for money. But there are some offers which make even Willie pause for thought.... Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 13;
Love of the Father (BBC HB 522); Psalm 23; Matthew 15, vv 21-31; Stand up and bless the Lord (BBC HB 268) Stereo
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by D. J. Enright Readers PATRICK ROMER and JUNE BARRIE Producer
MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please'
Presented by Pattie Coldwell Editor KEN VASS
A History of Pantomime in seven parts
Narrated by Richard Briers 6: With a Wst, Wst, Wst
Stars of the music-halls 'invade' pantomime and cause a middle-class outcry against its new-found vulgarity. Performers:
Janice Cramer , Robert Daws Carmen Lynn , Charles West and Roy Hudd as Dan Leno 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)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner This week: Mending, Mixing and Fixing Presented by SANDRA KERR and TONY AITKEN Storyteller BILL PATERSON Today: Andrew McAndrew and Grandad Bluebells by BERNARD MACLAVERTY Script by LEE PRESSMAN Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN. S(ereo
2.5 Playtime Little Creatures Presented by CHRISTOPHER BRAMWELL and LOLA YOUNG (R) (Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.10 am)
2.20 Introducing Science Sciencescope
8: Lifting Off. Stereo
2.40 Topic Songbook (8) Stereo (R)
2.45 Radio Club Join TOMMY ROYD and the Radio Club for an action-packed programme full of information, competitions, jokes and drama for junior schools. Producer ELERI JONES (Re-broadcast on Wed at 11.45 am)
Introduced by Jenni Murray 'My mum has a boyfriend....: how do children cope with the prospect of a parent's second marriage? ANDREA ADAMS explores the emotional and practical problems.
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Serial: Blue Remembered Hills by ROSEMARY SUTCUFF
Abridged in seven episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Elizabeth Spriggs (3)
Three of Swords by MIKE DORRELL. Stereo
(Broadcaston Saturday at 8.30pm)
Presented by Nigel Andrews
Presented by Gordon Clough and Carole West
continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55pm
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Last in the present series.
Without hesitation, the least repetitious and most undeviating programme on radio with Kenneth Williams Clement Freud
Peter Jones and Derek Nimmo In the thick, the Chair, and frequent confusion Nicholas Parsons
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Revised broadcast of Saturday at 7.15am)
Peter Evans presents a weekly review of discoveries and developments.
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Taken Out by GREG CULLEN
There are three kinds of victims in a war: the bereaved, the survivors and the dead.
A party of relatives arrives on the Falkland Islands to honour the graves of their fallen. But peace has eluded all who were involved in that conflict. The scars are all too visible still.
Other parts played by PETER ACRE GRAHAM BLOCKEY and BRIAN SMITH of the BBC Radio Drama Repertory Company
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY. Stereo
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Ninety-four this year,
Lady Olwen Carey Evans is the last surviving offspring of the man who has been called the greatest British statesman of the 20th century.
At home in Wales, she talks to June Knox-Mawer about life with her remarkable father, David Lloyd George.
Producer CLARE SELERIE-GREY (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer ANNE HINDS
Editor THOMAS SUTCUFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
Bengal Lancer
The autobiography of FRANCIS YEATS BROWN abridged and read in ten episodes by Tim Pigott-Smith (1) Producer IAN COTTERELL
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Presented by Tim Llewellyn Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
Rehearsing for Work
12.301: 1: What Use is Work Experience? and at 12.50 Choosing and Preparing Presented by MARGARET PERCY Producer GRAHAM TAYAR