An interview with a prominent figure in the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers
Producers TIM FINNEY and REBECCA POW
A meditation for the beginning of a new day
With THE REV SHELAGH BROWN Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
With Bob Finigan
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Clive Roslin
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With Garry Richardson
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Eddie Cole
Written and read in ten parts by Christopher Matthew (6) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
arrives in Blackpool. Among those on the platform with him are columnist Stephen Pile , songwriter Steve Brown , and Mark Miwurdz , who'U be exploring matters of pith and momentary interest.
Special guest Les Dawson Producers JULIA SIMMONS and lANSTRACHAN BBC Manchester
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The first of five programmes. The summer series of Cat's
Whiskers starts, literally, with a bang! Bernard Cribbins and P.J. are hundreds of feet above the Pacific Ocean, in a dilapidated hot-air balloon. They lose control and seconds later find themselves crash-landing onto the top of a tall palm tree on a desert island.
Bernard has his array of tapes, among which is a full dramatisation of the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, dramatised by OLWEN WYMARK from The Sword and the Circle by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF.
The programme also includes a quiz a competition, a feature by 3 Chris Harris, and an interruption from
Jonathan Kydd. Story line by CHRIS CURRY Those taking part:
DEUA CORRIE, BERNARD CRIBBINS
EDWARD DE SOUZA , SALLY EDWARDS CUFF HOWELLS, ALED JONES
IAIN JONES. JAMES
LAURENSON JENNY LUCKRAFT , DAVID MICHAELS
STEVEN RENDALL. JAMES TOMUNSON PETER WHEELER. HELEN WORTH Producer CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester. Stereo
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from Glasgow conducted by THE REV JOHNSTON MCKAY
Tim Schadla-Hall, Stanley Ellis and John Grundy take a radio walkabout and, in the last programme in the series, search for what makes the buildings, speech and daily life unique in Boston, Lincolnshire.
They discover the birthplace of the luggage tag; meet the builder of a 20th-century Elizabethan manor house; and share a cell with the Pilgrim Fathers.
BBC North East
When they wrote about the lives of the poor, most poets of the 19th century did so as sympathetic spectators. Sam Laycock was an exception - a northern mill-worker who wrote out of his own experience. The poet Glyn Hughes introduces and reads a selection of his work.
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
The only daily consumer programme on network radio. Presented by Susan Rae Editor KEN VASS Write to:
You and Yours, BBC, London W1A 4WW
A sitcom set in the whirligig world of four frantic funsters. Starring Kit Hollerbach and 3: A Day in the Country
When our friends decide to commune with Mother Nature it's out with the picnic snacks and off to the farm! Just as well the Sizefield nuclear power station is completely safe.... Written by JEREMY HARDY
PAUL B. DAVIES and KIT HOLLERBACH With STEVE PUNT. PETE SINCLAIR
CAROLINE LEDDY and DAVE COHEN Producer DAVID TYLER Stereo (R)
Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS
Anansi and the Tiger Tales adapted by LEE PRESSMAN Read by FLOELLA BENJAMIN Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo (R)
Introduced by Jenni Murray The Woman's Hour Red Cross Sudan Appeal was launched 18 months ago, what has been achieved with the E116,000 raised by listeners? Tessa Shaw reports.
Serial: Travels with Charley by JOHN STEINBECK abridged in eight episodes by PAT MCLOUGHUN
Read by Lyndon Brook (1) In 1960, the much-travelled American writer,
John Steinbeck , decided to rediscover his native land. He took with him his affable dog, Charley, for company.
(Music: Grofe s 'Hudson River Suite') Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
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Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley
(Stereo)
(Broadcast on Saturday at 7.0pm)
Sharing Experience
Mike Alfreds , the newly-appointed resident director at the National Theatre, is preparing an ambitious five-hour production of The Wandering Jew. He talks to
Paul Allen about his continual exploration of the nature of theatre.
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Michael Woodhead Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN and the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
The men who sail Falmouth Working Boats dredge for oysters using methods little-changed for centuries. Now a mysterious disease threatens the trade that is a last living link with the age of sail.
Presented and produced by Mark Laity. (R) revised
The Glory of the Lord by JOHN FLETCHER
In the 1960s Eric was a mod, his most glorious moments, fighting on Brighton beach.
Now he is a father of two young kids. His wife has left him and the violence of his youth has been transmuted into tenderness.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHUN
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY Editor ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
A Classical Education by RICHARD COBB abridged in ten episodes byjOHNSCOTNEY Read by John Franklyn-Robbins 1: Gare Saint-Lazare
In 1936 when the author was 19, his best school-friend was arrested for matricide in Dublin. That event lies at the heart of this latest volume of autobiography, which illuminates with wit, style and insight an already almost forgotten era.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by David Sells
News, background, analysis and comment
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
