6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day CANON ROY MCKAY
Introduced by Desmond Lynam and Malcolm Billings
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather; at
6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news.
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35' and 8.35* and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. English Regions: see column 5
A magazine edition
Holidays Needn't Be Hell: a paediatrician gives advice on taking small children on holiday.
Home Start: ANN HEYNO drops In on a scheme to teach small children about creative play.
Leaping Over Handicap: JUNE ROSE at a mime and movement class.
And other items of topical interest to parents and children. Presenter Dilys Morgan Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
Parents and Children: what do you know about your rights?: 60p Jrom bookshops
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country.
Introduced by PAULINE BUSHNELL Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 62: The star of morn has risen (BBC HB 410); Psalm 25, vv 110; Acts 17, vv 4-15 (Rsv); Holy Father, in thy mercy (BBC HB 386)
Complicity by ANTHONY G. HART
Read by Sean Barrett
I was sitting in the staff-room, glassy-eyed. ' I'm taking form Four-7 to the hut for a weekend,' I said.
' You're joking. You're not taking that crowd into the innocent Welsh hills? '
I I promised.' I said ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
The Sixpenny Trick by MICHAEL MELLINGER
; Well - now I've heard every. thing. I suppose you might as well sit down and wait for Sam. Seeing that you and I seem to be practically married.'
Producer MARGARET ETALL
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Private Post: GWYN RICHARDS examines a scheme which has grown up for a particular private postal service, avoiding the use of the Post Office.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
Second Round
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson
18: North of England and Wales
KEITH BUSH, civil engineer
WILFRED RIGG. retired lecturer DAVID STEPHENS , articled clerk including ' Beat the Brains ' in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN p WVNN , who, With IAN GILLIES , sets the questions.
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
Brain of Britain, quiz book, 35p from bookshops
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Hermione Gingold , now appearing in ' A Little Night Music ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London.
2.0-2.2 News
Twinning: one wav for women to work part-time is for two to share the same job. FRANCES BERTHELSEN investigates this growing trend.
Covers of Velvet and Mother of Pearl: FAITH SHANNON talks to DILYS MORGAN about the art of the bookbinder.
Cookery Sense: JANET WARREN and MARY BERRY discuss how to make holiday cooking both delicious and enjoyable. jo MAXWELL-MULLER reads
Sanditon by JANE AUSTEN and ANOTHER LADY (3)
Story: A Story of Little Mouse by CAZI BENISTON
The Death Watch by LESTER POWELL and ' Does a marksman think about the person he's going to kill? '
I don't. I think of him only as a target. Not even that. An abstraction. If I thought about him as another human being. it'd be an act of murder, butchery, and I don't think I could go through with it.'
Producer HARRY CATLIN
An appreciation of Sir Charles Chaplin
Introduced by Garard Green
Among the Elephants (3)
William Hardcaslle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
In the chair Terry Wogan On the panel
Anona Winn. Brian Johnston William Rushton and Bettlne le Beau
Voice GRETTA GOURIET Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Friday 12 27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
by P.G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
Adapted by Chris Miller from the book "Thank You, Jeeves"
(ALEXANDER SOLZRENITSYN)
During the war thousands of Cossacks fought on the German side agarnst the Russians. When the war ended they were forcibly repatriated.
Nicholas Bethell tells the story of how British soldiers came to be involved. He has talked to some of the officers and men who were there and who obeyed orders to hand over the Cossacks to face in many cases almost certain death.
Producer ROBERT CRADOCK This absorbing and chilling account ... (the times)
The fourth of eight programmes in which John Ebdon introduces a potpourri of recordings taken from the BBC Sound Archives, in which famous literary and artistic people talk about themselves, their work. their inspirations - and each other.
Producer NATALIE WHEEN
Presenter Nigel Rees Producer ANNE WINDER
S.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Father and Son 3: Hard Times
preceded by Weather
