6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Outlook reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
6.50 Weather; programme news
6.55 South-East News
7.10 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Produced by ANTHONY PARKIN (from Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
7.50 Weather; programme news
7.55 South-East News
The News
Radio 4s breakfast-time look at what Britain is getting up to this weekend - and what's happening abroad
8.45 Today's Papers
8.59 Weather
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by GILES PLAYFAIR
Parliamentarians scrutinise the week's work at Westminster and discuss what is making an impact on the world of politics Chairman TERENCE LANCASTER
Produced by BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning, page 47; Love of the Father (BBC Hymn Book 522); Psalm 126; St Matthew 5. vv 1-16 (RSV); Jesus is this dark world's light (BBC HB 519)
Deux enquetes du commissaire Maigret Stories by Georges Simenon Le chien jaune: part 8
Six programmes on the art and technique of the theatre 1: The Playwright R D. SMITH talks to
JOHN ARDEN , ALAN PLATER ,
ARNOLD RIDLEY , ROBERT SHAW
Produced by PEGGY BRANFORD
20: Looking Ahead. Studying in a multi-media world
(Publications and NEC Correspondence Courses: page 14)
Introduced by JACOB DE VRIES
News and prospects of all the day's big events including:
Cricket: County championship matches
Golf: 1970 Open Championship (final round
International Athletics: Great Britain v East Germany
Racing - previews: Newbury and York
Produced by JOHN HASLAM (Sport on 2: 2.30-5.45 pm)
Challenge Match (i)
The three finalists from this year's contest v A team of three from Many a Slip: ISOBEL BARNETT
ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD
DAVID NIXON
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Produced by JOAN CLARK (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programmenews
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Alfred Marks. Cyril Fletcher In the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY
Special guest Jessie Matthews from an idea by Jimmy EDWARDS Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
The Rolling Pin by GAIE HOUSTON with Eleanor Summerfield
Not all business executives' wives are overjoyed at the prospect of hardly ever seeing their husbands. Bea Marchland, who has a mind of her own, decides to do something about it.
Produced by RAY MILES
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Guest: Edmund de Rothschild Music wherever she goes: AUDREY RUSSELL takes a look at canned music
The Diplomatic Otter: ESTELLE HOLT
Comfortable Chairs: FRANCES BERTHELSEN talks to people concerned with their design
Bookshelf: EVA FIGES talks to JOAN YORKE about her book Patriarchal Attitudes
Marriage to a younger man:
TERESA HIRST talks tO DOREEN FORSYTH
DUNCAN CARSE reads Myself a Mandarin by AUSTIN COATES (Seventh of 10 instalments)
Edinburgh
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Edinburgh for a preview of the British Commonwealth Games
Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD (Shortened edition: Wed 12.0)
TONY BILBOW looks at the making of Cromwell with RICHARD HARRIS , ALEC GUINNESS, ROBERT MORLEY , Composer FRANK CORDELL , and director KEN HUGHES. and features a preview of the film.
Written by LYN FAIRHURST
Produced by BOBBY JAYE (Repeated: Wed, 7.30 pm)
TIM MATTHEWS introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues Please write to: Listening Post, BBC, Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA. Or telephone
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5.55 Weather; programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday, 9.15 am)
Introduced by JOHN MOTSON Produced by GODFREY DIXEY
A new panel game in which listeners are challenged to answer questions on their jobs while the questioners try by hook or by crook to trap them into using two little words with Cyril Fletcher in the chair
The questioners: Marjorie Proops
Jimmy Thompson
Devised by JIMMY THOMPSON
JOHNNY WHYTE , NICHOLAS PARSONS
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
with Ken Dodd This week:
The Invisible Man - I don'know what they see in him featuring PETER GOODWRIGHT and MIKE NEWMAN
TALFRYN THOMAS
DAPHNE OXENFORD BARBARA MULLANEY
DODDY'S DIDDY ORCHESTRA directed by GEOFF ALDERSON
Devised and written by KEN DODD with additional material by GORDON PLEASANT, EDDIE FOXALL GEORGE MOFFAT and DAVID NOBBS Produced by BOBBY JAYE
The Days That Are Gone A memoir of the Busson-du Maurier family based on the books of DAPHNE DU MAURIER and adapted as two plays for radio by PHILIP LEAVER
2: The Fire in the Glass
Despite their upbringing as French emigrants in London, the du Mauriers were to rediscover their roots and develop their artistic talents in the congenial bohemianism of mid-19th'century Paris.
The action moves between London. Paris, and Germany within the years 1811-1863.
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL (Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
9.58 Weather
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Evening Prayers conducted by MICHAEL SHOESMITH
preceded by Weather
