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 has breakfast with REX PATERSON, pioneer of low-cost milk production and inventor of the Buckrake. Arranged and introduced by ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
7.50 Weather; programme news
7.55 South-East News
Radio 4's breakfast-time look at what Britain is getting up to this weekend - and what's happening abroad
Today's Papers at 8.45
8.59 Weather
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by WALTER TAPLIN
A musical self-disclosure from Clement Freud
New Every Morning, page 26; 0 Saviour, where shall guilty man (BBC Hymn Book 87); Psalm 31; Matthew 12, v 43, to 13, v 9 (RSV); Take up thy cross (BBC HB 369)
Deux enquetes du commissaire Maigret Stories by Georges Simenon Felicie est la: part 2
11.0 The Play's the Thing
Six programmes on the art and techniques of the theatre 5: The Critic
R. D. smith talks to
MARTIN ESSLIN, HAROLD HOBSON
PETER LEWIS , IRVING WARDLE
11.30 Pictures in Britain
4: Oxford and Cambridge
ELLIS WATERHOUSE discusses Claude's Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia; and BRIAN ROBB talks about Renoir's Le Coup de Vent.
(Publications and NEC Correspondence Courses: page 10)
Introduced by DESMOND LINEHAM News and prospects of all the day's big events including:
Cricket: scores from County Championship matches
Cycling: JOHN BURNS reports on this morning's track events held in the presence of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh
Swimming: Amateur Swimming Association Championships
Athletics: The AAA Championships from the White City Stadium
Association Football: Charity Shield/Watney Cup
Racing: from Redcar
Produced by JOHN HASLAM
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 Army at Herford, West Germany
Question-master ALUN WILLIAMS
Questions set and produced by MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
12.55 Weather; programme news
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray Tommy Trinder
Richard Murdoch
In the chair, MCDONALD HOBLEY Special guest, Renee Houston from an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
by GAIE HOUSTON
' Honour to the dead. they say. But it isn't. It's a sop to people's consciences for how they treated the poor stiff in his lifetime, and it's a bit of showing off to the neighbours at the same time ... When my time comes I'll ask you to be so kind as to put me outside with the dustbins.' with BRIAN HEWLETT , KATHLEEN HELME YSANNE CHURCHMAN
Produced by MARGARET ETALL
Introduced by Olive Shapley from Manchester Guest of the Week Jimmy Savile
ChateauFormby: PETER WHEELER looks at a vineyard in the North of England
Ideas in the Air: with MOI.LIE HARGREAVES, RICHARD BURSLEM, and ARNOLD YATES
A Dedicated Man: short story by ELIZABETH TAYLOR read by DAPHNE OXENFORD
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently went sightseeing with American tourists in the London area
Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD (Shortened edition: Wed, 12.0)
TONY BILBOW talks to Peter Sellers about his many screen characterisations from I'm All Right Jack to his latest role as Hoffman.
Written by LYN FAIRHURST Produced by BOBBY JAYE (Repeated: Wed, 7.30 pm)
LESLIE SMITH introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues
5.55 Weather; programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Produced by GODFREY DIXEY
A panel game with Cyril Fletcher in the chair The questioners: MARJORIE PROOPS JIMMY THOMPSON Devised by JIMMY THOMPSON , JOHNNY WHYTE and NICHOLAS PARSONS Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Peter Sellers. Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan in The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (Solved!): an involved tale of seagoon-faring with a fiendishly clever ending to this world-wide mystery. With MAX GELDRAY
THE RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET
WALLY STOTT AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Announcer WALLACE GREENSLADE Script by SPIKE MILLIGAN and ERIC SYKES
Produced by PETER ETON (1954) Series edited by JOHN BROWELL
by NIGEL BALCHIN with Michael Hordern and Coral Browne
The Prime Minister is unmarried - but not for long. Once he has a wife, who then will be the leader of the house? Place: No 10, Downing Street. Time: Any time but the present.
Produced bv JOHN TYDEMAN (Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
9.58 Weather
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
The atom bomb warning of 1939
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
How Roosevelt was warned of Germany's nuclear threat by two Hungarian refugees from Long Island in 1939, thanks to a boy who liked fishing.
in conversation with DEREK PARKER
Philip Noel-Baker , former Socialist up and Cabinet Minister, has worked passionately throughout his long life for the ideal of peace.
He chooses 1918-1924 as the time of his life because during that period he collaborated with men like Robert Cecil , Jan Smuts , Arthur Henderson , and Fridtjof Nansen for the creation and establishment of the League of Nations.
Produced by GEORGE ANGELL (Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV JOHN LANG
preceded by Weather
