including a five-day weather forecast for farmers Producers TIM FINNEY and REBECCA POW
With THE REV DAVID COHEN , General Director of Scripture Union. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FlNIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Charlotte Green
Late afternoon sun on the village green; men in cream flannels dreaming of heroes; a neat cut and a fine edge as leather meets willow; lazy applause from the boundary ... The romantic world of cricket evoked in two centuries of prose, poetry and anecdote. Narrated in ten parts by Robert Powell with readings by Robin Bailey , Bernard Cribbins Willie Rushton and Prunella Scales
1: An Englishman's Crease is 'is Castle
Written and adapted by CHRISTOPHER LEE producer PETER GRIFFITHS
on its peregrination around the north of England lights on Newcastle upon Tyne with regulars
Stephen Pile , Steve Brown and Mark Miwurdz.
Producers JULIE SIMMONS and IAN STRACHAN BBC Manchester
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Bernard and P.J. have now spent a week on their desert island. How have they managed? Have they found somewhere to live, something to eat?
Bernard has his usual array of tapes, among which is a full dramatisation 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 Roger Worsley and an interruption from Jonathan Kydd.
Story-line by CHRIS CURRY Those taking part:
BERNARD CRIBBINS , EDWARD DE SOUZA.
SALLY EDWARDS. ALED JONES.
IAIN JONES. JAMES LAURENSON.
JENNY LUCKRAFT. DAVID MICHAELS ,
KENNETH ALAN TAYLOR.
PETER WHEELER and HELEN WORTH
Producer CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester. Stereo
from Pebble Mill, Birmingham with the singers and instrumentalists of St John 's, Harborne
As pants the hart for cooling streams (BBC HB 451); City, 0
City (L. E. Smith jnr); How firm a foundation (Sounds of Living Waters 75); Reading: Psalm 46 BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
First of four programmes Cliff Morgan sets out on a journey which will take him 130 miles down the River Wye.
Today he goes to its source on Plynlimmon Mountain in the heart of Wales, then, via the tiny village of Llangurig, on to the market town of Rhayader, eventually arriving in Builth Wells on the eve of the Royal Welsh Show.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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Presented by D.J. Enright Readers SHEILA MITCHELL and DENYS HAWTHORNE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol Stereo
Presented by Susan Rae Editor KEN VASS
A sitcom about young people where craziness is never far away....! Starring
5: Chips with Everything!
When Caroline makes a special announcement at Kit and Jeremy's wedding anniversary, it's another success story for computer dating. There's just one tiny problem ...
Written by JEREMY HARDY.
KIT HOLLERBACH and PAUL B. DAVIES with PETE SINCLAIR. CAROLINE LEDDY and STEVE PUNT
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo (R)
Presented by Nick Worrall Editor DEREK LEWIS
MICHAEL ROSEN reads his own poems Don Put Mustard in the Custard! Today: All Around the House Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo
Introduced by Jenni Murray Cream and Calvados
To mark the celebrations commemorating William the Conqueror's death 900 years ago, Sara Parker paints a picture of Norman life today. Serial: Travels with Charley by JOHN STEINBECK abridged in eight parts byPATMCLOUGHLIN
Read by Lyndon Brook (6)
(Music: Grofe's 'Hudson River Suite') Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
Death and the Dancing Footman by NGAIO MARSH
Works of Nature
Rosemary Hill talks to craft-workers and artists.
Presented by Bill Frost and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With CHARLOTTE GREEN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Six lives and six perspectives of North America emerge in conversation with Anne Brown. 1: John Ehrlichman
Seasons of Mist by DOT RUBIN
Beth lives with her parents on their farm in Cornwall. It is her 17th birthday but the family celebrations are overshadowed by her despair at the absence of her adored brother, Bobby, who was sent away from home by her father after a family crisis, the nature of which still haunts them.
STUART HUTCHINSON (piano) Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
A year in the life of an English village.
In the fifth of 12 monthly talks, Wilfred De'Ath reports on August in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire. BBC Manchester
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer WILL CANTOPHER Editor ANNE WINDER
A Classical Education by RICHARD COBB abridged in ten parts by JOHN SCOTNEY
Read by John Franklyn-Robbins 6: Mr Simon
Presented by David Sells Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude