6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Outlook
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme 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
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The 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
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by COLIN VALDAR
Produced by MARTIN cox
The Labour Party Conference
Delegates and observers look back at the week's events in Blackpool and discuss the likely impact of the Conference's decisions and deliberations on the style and direction of the Labour Party in opposition.
Presenter ANTHONY KING
Produced by BERNARD TATE †
(Conservative Party: 10 October)
New Every Morning, page 90; I heard the voice of Jesus say (BBC Hymn Book 143): Psalm 23: Isaiah 1. vv 1-6, 16-20 (RSV): Glorious things of thee are spoken (BBC HB 176)
Deux enquetes du commissaire Maigret Stories by Georges Simenon Filicie est Id: part 9
(Mondays broadcast: Study on 3)
6: From Planning to Pet Keeping
How does a state-controlled industry operate? What is the position of Soviet Jewry? Do Russians keep pets?
PETER FRANK and others answer listeners' questions.
Produced by HUGH PURCELL
11: Chatsworth and Goodwood GEOFFREY AGNEW interprets Et in Arcadia Ego; DAVID PIPER talks about Stubbs's Duke and Duchess of Richmond watching Horses Exercising
(Publications and NEC Correspondence Courses: page 13)
Introduced by PETER JONES
News and prospects of today's big sporting events, featuring: Association Football in England and Scotland. Racing. Rugby Union, and Rugby League. (Sport on 2: from 2.1 pm)
A general knowledge contest between girls' and boys' schools in England. Scotland. Wales, and Northern Ireland Question-masters
JOHN ELLISON. TIM GUDGIN First Round. 2: Scotland
Madras College, St Andrews (Girls) v
High School, Coatbridge (Boys) Questions set by roy SMITH Production assistant GERALDINE CHURCH
Produced by MARTIN FISHER
12.55 Weather; programme news
A spontaneous discussion by MICHAEL WINSTANLEY LADY ANTONIA FRASER
LORD ARDWICK ANGUS MAUDE , MP
Chairman DAVID Jacobs from Oakengates. Shropshire
Mrs Hauksbee
A play by A. R. RAWLINSON freely adapted from A Second-rate Woman and A Germ Destroyer, two short stories by RUDYARD KIPLING with Mary Wimbush
It is Simla in the 1890s and the fascinating Mrs Hauksbee is probably the wittiest woman there - she loves to involve herself in the lives of others.
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
Introduced by Judith Chalmers
My children prefer me to be a working mother - 1: PATRICIA KEIRAN and MOLLY MCNULTY discuss with MOLLIE LEE their approach to combining home and a career
Letter to Fred: ALISON BRUCE
Her Majesty 's Books: KAY EVANS at HMSO
Managing Your Money: MARGARET ALLEN outlines her new series on women and money
A Good Read: This week, at the start of a new series, IRENE HANDL recommends some books she couldn'put down
DELIA PATON reads A Bird in the House by MARGARET LAURENCE (5)
TONY BILBOW looks at some of the current war aims - including The Battle of Britain, Patton, and Darling Lilli - and talks to RICHARD FLEISCHER , director of Tora Tora Tora. Written by LYN FAIRHURST
Produced by BOBBY JAYE
(Shortened version of last Friday's broadcast)
The story of the ' pure gold of the Music-Hall': written and narrated by Roy Hudd with the aid of excerpts from some of the Cheeky Chappie's recorded performances and anecdotes from his friends.
Produced by JOHN BROWELL ‡
5.55 Weather; programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday, 9.15 am)
Highlights of today's sport in the South and Midlands
Produced by GODFREY DIXEY
A radio biography in six parts Written by LESLIE BAILY with Clive Morton and Sullivan
1: How they began
Other parts JOAN MORROW
DEREK LAMDEN , WILFRED BABBAGE HUMPHREY MORTON
The Narrator HUGH BURDEN NEW RADIO ORCHESTRA leader JULIEN GAILLARD AMBROSIAN SINGERS conducted by ALAN PAUL
Excerpts from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas taken from long-playing gramophone records Produced by VERNON HARRIS
Don'Listen Ladies by STEPHEN powys and GUY BOLTON from the French of SACHA GUITRY adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Moira Lister Norman Shelley and Marjorie Westbury
' Don'listen ladies, I beg of you. Don'listen! I am talking to men ... '
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
9.58 Weather
A late-evening conversation in which
SHIRLEY WILLIAMS MP for
Hitchin GORDON PASK cybernetician and BASIL DE FERRANTI computer manufacturer exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas, and prejudices With BRIAN REDHEAD
Produced by BRIAN BLAKE (from Manchester)
The Litany sung to the music of Thomas Tallis
All the day's news preceded by Weather
