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: News Briefing
News, weather, papers and sport: Farming Today
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.Producers martin SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Contributors
Unknown:
Leslie
Cottington
: Today
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones6.45* Prayer for the Day With TONY JASPER
6.55,7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
Contributors
Presenters:
Brian
Redhead
Presenters:
Wendy
Jones
Unknown:
Tony
Jasper
Read By:
Peter
Donaldson
: Stanley Sherwood
or the Fireman's Revenge by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER8.57 Weather; travel
Contributors
Unknown:
Sylvia Townsend
Warner
: News
: Midweek: Libby Purves
offers a chance to meet some unusual and unfamiliar people and learn a little more about a well-known personality in the birthday Interview. Producer JENNY DANKSContributors
Producer:
Jenny
Danks
: News
: Gardeners' Question Time
A magazine programme introduced by Ken Ford with Bill Sowerbutts ,Peter Seabrook , Daphne Ledward , Phil Swindells and Dr Gillian Fearn
This week: The history of fruit and vegetables, tips for garden planners, more new gadgets, buying bulbs and water gardening.
Contributors
Introduced By:
Ken
Ford
Unknown:
Bill
Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Peter
Seabrook
Unknown:
Daphne
Ledward
Unknown:
Phil
Swindells
Unknown:
Dr Gillian
Fearn
: Daily Service
NEM, p 102; There is a land of pure delight(BBC HB 254); Canticle
10; Luke 1, vv 34-55 (AV); Angel voices, ever singing (BBC HB 256) long wave only
: Morning Story
The Coffee Baby by BETTY BURTONRead by Margot Boyd Producer MITCH RAPER
Contributors
Unknown:
Betty
Burton
Read By:
Margot
Boyd
Producer:
Mitch
Raper
: News
followed by travel: News
: You and Yours
News, views and advice for consumers includingThe Advice Agencies
3: Books and magazines Presenter John Howard
Contributors
Presenter:
John
Howard
: Outbreak of Fear
by R. D. WINGFIELD (1)12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Contributors
Unknown:
R. D.
Wingfield
: The World at One: News
Presenter Gordon Clough with voices and topics in and behind the headlinesContributors
Presenter:
Gordon
Clough
: The Archers
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only: News
: Woman's Hour
Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Guest of the Week: Margaret Perlera controller of Forensic Science Service.Back to School Dinners: CHRIS ELDON LEE describes a scheme which bridges one generation gap. To be a Pilgrim (2):
SATISH KUMER in Benares. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (2)
Contributors
Introduced By:
Sue
MacGregor
Unknown:
Margaret
Perlera
Unknown:
Chris Eldon
Lee
Unknown:
Satish
Kumer
: News
: Afternoon Theatre
The Embroidered Cloth by RALPH MEREDITH with Elizabeth Begley and Stephen GarlickAfter the Great War and the death of her husband, Mary returns with her son Jack to her mother's hill farm outside Belfast.
Directed by BRUN DEAN BBC Northern Ireland
Contributors
Unknown:
Ralph
Meredith
Unknown:
Elizabeth
Begley
Unknown:
Stephen
Garlick
Directed By:
Brun
Dean
Mrs Raven:
Elizabeth
Begley
Jack:
Stephen
Garlick
Mary:
Stella
McCusker
Margaret:
Aingeal
Grehan
Martin:
John
Hewitt
: Time for Verse
Anthony Curtis presents poems of homage and self-portrait. Self-PortraitsReaders ROD BEACHAM FRANCES JEATER and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID
Contributors
Unknown:
Anthony
Curtis
Unknown:
Beacham Frances
Jeater
Unknown:
Christopher
Scott
Producer:
Alec
Reid
: News
: Russian Roulette
Allan Schiller takes his piano on tour. BBC BristolContributors
Unknown:
Allan
Schiller
: Story Time
Treasure Island (12): PM
Presenters Robert Williams and Liz Donnelly on VHF until 5.555.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Contributors
Presenters:
Robert
Williams
Presenters:
Liz
Donnelly
: The Six O'Clock News
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report: My Music
Devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Dents NordenIn the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
Contributors
Unknown:
Edward J.
Mason
Unknown:
Tony
Shryane
Unknown:
John
Amis
Unknown:
Frank
Muir
Unknown:
Ian
Wallace
Producer:
Pete
Atkin
: News
: The Archers
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm): Checkpoint
A series of weekly investigations into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice. injustice and even fraud. Presenter Roger CookContributors
Presenter:
Roger
Cook
: Animal Language
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit, the second half of a series in 26 parts. NarratorDavid Attenborough
25: The Honorary Birds Gibbons do not sing alone. A gibbon duet begins at dawn. After a warm-up period, the female signals to the male that she wants to sing the ' great-call probably the most spectacular aspect of gibbon vocalisation.
Warren Brockleman of Mahidol University, Bangkok, and David Chivers and Eliot Haimoff of Cambridge University, describe how the calls of gibbons are used to reinforce the pair-bond and for territorial proclamation.
Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Contributors
Narrator:
David
Attenborough
Unknown:
Warren
Brockleman
Unknown:
David
Chivers
Unknown:
Eliot
Haimoff
: A Musical Evening with Benjamin Luxon
Baritone Benjamin Luxon has managed to combine a flourishing career in opera with his interest in the lighter field of Victorian ballads.He talks to Telerl Bevan about his career.
Producer MARK OWEN BBC Wales
Contributors
Baritone:
Benjamin
Luxon
Unknown:
Telerl
Bevan
: Crowdie and Cream
In the aftermath of the Great War, eight families were given grants of land on Harris in the Outer Hebrides. It was the start of the small community of Scarastavore.The crofters had to eke a meagre living from the thin soil in those early days, but there were lighter moments.
In this second series of five programmes Finlay J. Macdonald recalls those bitter-sweet times of his boyhood and remembers some of the formative occasions in the growth of the village. 1: The Christening
Producer LESLIE ROBINSON
Contributors
Unknown:
Finlay J.
MacDonald
Producer:
Leslie
Robinson
: Kaleidoscope
Michael Oliver reports on the second week of the EdinburghFestival, which includes the American Repertory Theatre's production of Wedekind's classic Lulu, transposed from turn-of-the-century Vienna to the promiscuous world of today's New
York; and the fantastic visions of the 18th-century Italian artist Piranesi, as revealed in a major exhibition of his drawings and etchings.
Producers RICHARD DUNN and RICHARD BANNERMAN
Contributors
Unknown:
Michael
Oliver
Producers:
Richard
Dunn
Producers:
Richard
Bannerman
: Weather
: The World Tonight: News
with Alexander MacLeod with voices and opinions from around the worldContributors
Unknown:
Alexander
MacLeod
: A Book at Bedtime
Madame Bovary (8) long wave only: The Financial World Tonight
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only: Unforgettables
Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia for late-night listening. long wave only: News
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an InterludeAbout this project
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