Prices, practical farming, politics and the countryside. Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom
A meditation for the beginning of a new day, with the Rev Peter Jackson. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Peter Hobday
: Including:
6.45 Business News
I 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jonathan Fryer
Baroness Castle of Blackburn, who as Barbara Castle was
Labour Party Minister for Transport, recalls the introduction of the controversial
Breathalyser test. Producer Cathy Drysdale Stereo
with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Manna Salandy-Brown Stereo
with Louise Botting and Vincent Duggleby.
What's happening in the fast-changing field of personal savings and the ; financial problems of everyday life.
Child by Janet Frame.
Read by Joan Walker. Producer Sue Wilson
from the Colchester
Institute, with the singers and instrumentalists of the School of Music.
0 Come Let Us Worship (Rachmaninov); Man Who Loved Sinners (Tamblyn); Luke 7, w 36-50; Jesus Lord , Have Mercy on Us (Tamblyn); Christ, Friend of Sinners (Taylor) Director of Music
William Tamblyn. Stereo
Transatlantic commuter Jessica Catto builds houses in the USA and is an ambassador's wife in the UK.
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers
Rosalind Shanks and Ben Onwukwe and guest James Berry.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
Editor Ken Vass
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MCW The comic worlds
NEW of US satirist and comedian Stan Freberg , presented in three programmes by Robert Cushman.
1: Stan Freberg on record: from St George and the Dragonet to the Old Payola Roll Blues.
Producer Jonathan James-Moore Stereo
with James Naughtie Editor Roger Mosey
with Jenni Murray.
Serial: Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski. The last of eight parts read by Bernard Horsfall.
Editor Sally Feldman
A love story in three plays by Victor Pemberton.
1: The Trains Don't Stop Here Any More
Letty is a determined young girl. When she marries Oliver against the wishes of her family, she is convinced that her love can help him overcome the disabilities of his war-wounds and restore his faith in himself and the world about him.
Time: 1916-1930.
Pianist Mary Nash
Director John Tydeman. Stereo (R)
Paul Vaughan visits the Opera 80 company on tour with new productions; Jim Sheridan , the director of My Left
Foot, reveals his new film; and a new record label is launched - to sing the blues.
Producer Nicki Paxman
Stereo
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge Editor Kevin Marsh
& WRITE to: PM Letters. BBC. London Wl A 1AA
and Financial Report
Stereo
with Derek Cooper
Flower of Blood
In the desert of Western
Australia where the British slew many
Aborigines, there grows a scarlet flower. The
Spanish monks who also settled there in the 1850s cherished both the flower and the Aborigines.
Written by Bruce Stewart.
Pianist John Bishop
Music director Richard Connolly Director Shaun MacLoughlin Stereo
In the last of three programmes, Phil Smith uncovers a forgotten story buried in j Nelson Cemetery. j The Derwentwater Disaster
Producer Gillian Hush (R)
Stereo
Presented by Roger White Stereo
Presented by Robin Lustig
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
Carol 1 by Patricia Highsmith.
A powerful love story read in ten episodes ! by Zoe Wanamaker. Part 3.
Abridged by Janys Chambers Producer Claire Grove
Starring Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Home.
With Sam Costa , Maurice Denham , Dora Bryan and the BBC Men's Chorus.
Plus the BBC Revue
Orchestra, conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.
Producer Leslie Bndgmont