6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Outlook reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern 1
6.50 Weather; programme news
6.55 South-East News
7.10 On Your Farm pays an early-morning visit to the Game Fair at Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire,
Introduced by ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
7.50 Weather; programme news
7.55 South-East News
The News
Radio 4's 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 ROBERT CARVEL
Produced by BERNARD TATE
St James
New Every Morning, page 90; Give me the wings of faith (BBC Hymn Book 229); Psalm "95; Mark 10. vv 35-45 (RSV); Ten thousand times ten thousand (BBC HB 253)
Deux enquetes du commissaire Maigret
Stories by Georges Simenon Le chien jaune: part 10
11.0 The Play's the Thing 3: The Actor
R. D. SMITH talks to
SIR JOHN GIELGUD , RUPERT DAVIES EILEEN ATKINS , PAUL ROGERS
11.30 Pictures in Britain
2: Barber Institute and City Gallery, Birmingham
ANDREW FORGE talks about the place of Landscape near Malines in Rubens's work; MICHAEL KITSON comments on Ford Madox Brown's Work (Publications and NEC Correspondence Courses: page 13)
Introduced from Edinburgh by PETER JONES with a look at the day's highlights, and news of Cricket: scores and flashes from the County Championships Golf: Classic International Tournament. Warwickshire
Rifle Shooting: The Queen's Prize from Bisley
Racing from Ascot Heath
Produced by KENNETH PRAGNELL (Sport on 2: 2.30-5.45 pm)
A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services stationed in West Germany, Berlin, and Gibraltar Panel: LIZ FERRIS. TED MOULT NEIL DURDEN-SMITH Versus
A team representing the Royal Air Force, Rheindahlen in West Germany
Question-master ALUN Williams Questions set and produced by MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programmenews
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cyril Fletcher
In the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY Special guest, Isobel Barnett from an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
by David Broomfield
with James Copeland, Charles Lamb, Julian Somers, Barbara Bolton
There were six houses in the terrace due for demolition. Everyone in them had been given the push, of course, long before. Except old man Carter. He didn't fancy being pushed.
(Antony Higginson is appearing at the Westminster Theatre, London)
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Guest: Margaret Tyzack
No more keeping up: JEAN RICHARDSON
Bookshelf: ELIZABETH LONGFORD reviews The Memoirs of Madame de la Tour du Pin
Thoughts on an English garden: ANNE JONES
Attitudes to farm animals: RUTH HARRISON and TREVOR SCOTT With MICHAEL SUMNER
The Querist's Album: PAUL VAUGHAN with some Victorian confessions
DUNCAN CARSE reads Myself a Mandarin by AUSTIN COATES (9)
Swaffham
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the Swaffham district of Norfolk
Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD
TONY BILROW looks at the wide variety of family entertainment including The Games, The Out-of-Towners, Doctor in Trouble, and The Boatniks.
Written by LYN FAIRHURST Produced by BOBBY JAYE
TIM MATTHEWS introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues
5.55 Weather; programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Produced by GODFREY DIXEY
A new panel game with Cyril Fletcher in the chair with Jimmy Thompson (left) and MARJORIE PROOPS as the questioners Devised by JIMMY THOMPSON , JOHNNY WHYTE and NICHOLAS PARSONS
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
with Ken Dodd
This week: The Cost of Loving featuring PETER GOODWRIGHT and MIKE NEWMAN , TALFRYN THOMAS DAPHNE OXENFORD BARBARA MULLANEY
DODDY'S DIDDY ORCHESTRA directed by GEOFF ALDERSON
Devised andwritten byKEN DODD with additional material by GORDON PLEASANT, EDDIE FOXALL
GEORGE MOFFATT and DAVID NOB8S Produced by BOBBY JAYE
by Royce Ryton, adapted for radio by Alison Plowden
with Rachel Gurney, Noel Johnson and Patricia Gallimore
The action of the play takes place in the hall of Spala, the Tsar's small shooting lodge in Poland, where the Imperial family would go for a quiet holiday. It is October 1912.
(For cast see Monday, 3.0 pm)
9.58 Weather
Judith Listowel talking to NICHOLAS CARROLL
In 1926 Judith Listowel arrived in England from Hungary with E3 10s a week, a generous wardrobe, and a desire to study economics; looked up the London School of Economics in the telephone book and enrolled there. Her teachers from then until 1930 included Harold Laski. Eileen Power, R. H. Tawney ; among her fellow students was Hugh Gaitskell. Produced by RICHARD KEEN (Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV DR RONALD FALCONER
preceded by Weather
