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 THE REV RALPH SMITH 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 JENNY ABRAMSKY
A look ahead with Clive Roslin
by RONALD KNOX MAWER The Wrong Tree
Read by Frank Duncan Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol
('Pennington's 's Island tomorrow at
8.43 am)
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 with the latest news from the world of personal finance.
OldLadyofPetra by JOHN G. MILLER
Read by John Westbrook
The English couple, staying at the old lady's house, are moving out to better accommodation. But their departure has a touching and tragic sequel. Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 114;
The head that once was crowned with thorns (BBC HB 132); Psalm 150; Acts 2, vv 22-32; All hail the power of Jesus' name (BBC HB 118) Stereo
Brian Johnston visits Mold in North Wales. This year Theatr Clwyd celebrates its tenth birthday. Brian visits the theatre, and talks about the history of Mold, fly-fishing, witches and the art of goal-keeping.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBCBristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers ELIZABETH BELL and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS82LR
Presented by Pattie Coldwell Editor PAT TAYLOR
A series of unguarded observations by MICHAEL FRAYN
Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6. 30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
A Week with Grandfather Archibald : Monday Written and presented by DAVID ASHTON Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
Introduced by Jenni Murray
Caribbean Focus: Anne Bolsover, who has just returned from the West Indies, reports on life in the islands with the help of some of the women she met there.
Serial: The Man of Property by John Galsworthy abridged in 15 episodes by Ann Rees-Jones
Read by John Bennett (1)
The first of the nine novels that form The Forsyte Saga mainly concerns the ill-fated marriage of Soames and Irene Forsyte. Soames regards the beautiful Irene as his property - a view that is challenged when his cousin June becomes engaged to the flamboyant young architect, Philip Bosinney.
(Music: Hanson's First Symphony)
Leocadia by JEAN ANOUILH translated by TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER and The ghost of the divine Leocadia haunts the handsome young
Prince. The Duchess decides the ghost must be exorcised and to that end she sends for the pretty little milliner.
Joseph, the ice-cream vendor
Incidental music by GORDON LANGFORD
PATRICIA CALNAN (violin) PAUL BARRITT (violin) HELEN VERNEY (cello)
THE COMPOSER (harpsichord) Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON (First broadcast on Radio 3)
with Michael Billington
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
Editor DEREK LEWIS
continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
[Starring] Tim Brooke-Taylor with Kenneth Connor, Glyn Houston and Eve Karpf. When a best-selling Western writer gets stuck on a plot, it's time for Colin to 'mosey' down to the old corral and do what a man's got to do. But a man didn't have to go and do what Colin goes and does.
Written by Andrew Palmer
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Revised broadcast of Saturday at 7.15 am)
Presented by Peter Evans Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN (Re-broadcast next Saturday)
The Jenny Wagon by JOHN PEACOCK
In the Cariboo goldfields of the 1850s there was no law, and even murder could go unpunished. But in 1858 Judge Begbie came to bring British justice to the land. His inquiries into the death of Gold Commissioner Hicks led him to a group of concert performers known as 'The Jenny Wagon '.
MARY NASH (piano)
Technical presentation by DAVID GREENWOOD , assisted by PAUL PEARSON and WILFRED ACOSTA Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
'It's abitlikeAladdin'scave ...'
There are over 700 Oxfam shops throughout the country.
Sorting, pricing and selling what the public generously donates is hard work. But Doris and Anne tell Lynn ten Kate about their busy lives that have no thought for personal reward. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Presented by David Roper Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
The Battle of Pollock's Crossing by J. L. CARR abridged in ten episodes by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Keith Drinkel (1)
It is 1929 and young
George Gidner is desperate to exchange the toils of teaching in Bradford for a job in the land of his heroes. But Palisades, South Dakota, turns out to be a mere fly-speck on the map of a baffling, and at times savage, continent.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
by MALACHI WHITAKER
A short story, set in her native Yorkshire, by the writer described as 'the Bradford Chekhov '.
Read by Stephanie Turner Producer ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester
followed by an interlude VHF/FM joins at 12.10 am
