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 4s 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
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by COLIN VALDAR
Produced by MARTIN cox
The Conservative Party Conference
Representatives 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 Conservative Party in government.
Presenter ANTHONY KING
Produced by BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning, page 4: Blest be the everlasting God (BBC Hymn Book 486); Psalm 47; Isaiah 7, vv 1-4, 10, 16 (rsv); Thou, whose almighty word (BBC HB 185)
Deux enquetes du commissaire Maigret Felicie est Id. part 10
11.0 Study Ahead
A look at some of the main series to be broadcast in Study on 4 during the winter.
In particular, there'll be information about books, records, radiovision slides, and correspondence courses which will help the listener follow up the subjects in greater depth.
Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR
11.30 Pictures in Britain 12: Dulwich Gallery and the Courtauld Institute
ROBERT MEDLEY discusses Les Plaisir du Bat by Watteau; and EVELYN KING looks at Manet's Un Bar aux Folies Bergère (Publications: pages 14, 42)
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: and in Golf - The Piccadilly World Match Play Tournament
(Sport on 2: from 2.1 pm)
First Round. 3: N Ireland
12.55 Weather; programme news
A spontaneous discussion by LORD MANCROFT SHIRLEY WILLIAMS , MP BRYAN FORBES
Chairman DAVID JACOBS : from Bedford College, London
Filthy Fryer and the Woman of Maturer Years by ANDREW DAVIES
1 What do they mean, Filthy Fryer. They don'even know me. None of them. Still. If that's the way they want it. I embrace my reputation.' and GEORGE WOOLLEY
FRANK MOOREY , CAROL VALE
ALEX JOHNSTON , EILEEN BARRY Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
Introduced by Judith Chalmers What's the money used for? 1: a working wife and mother who's a secretary/book-keeper Managing Your Money: MARGARET ALLEN on what it means to single and married women Some of my pets: HARRY BERRY tells two short stories
A Good Read: This week, RENÉ CUTFORTH recommends some books he couldn'put down
My children prefer me to be a working mother - 2: PATRICIA KEIRAN and MOLLY MCNUI. TY
DELIA PATON reads A Bird in the House by MARGARET LAURENCE (6)
TONY BILBOW features some of Britain's best-known character actors including ARTHUR LOWE, CLIVE DUNN, and JOHN LE MESURIER filming Dad's Army; and LESLIE PHILLIPS, THORA HIRD, RONNIE CORBETT, MICHAEL HORDERN. and WILFRID BRAMBELL in Some Will, Some Won't. Written by LYN FAIRHURST Produced by BOBBY JAYE
(Shortened version of last Friday's broadcast)
by ROBERT BARR
A sequel to The Dark Island, in six parts, wherein Jim Nicholson follows a new trail of espionage and adventure from Whitehall to the lonely Cornish coast.
1: Nicholson Comes South
(For cast see Tuesday, 3.30 pm)
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 2: A Revolution in Entertainment
Other parts JEFFREY SEGAL
IAN FROST , HUMPHREY MORTON The Narrator HUGH BURDEN NEW RADIO ORCHESTRA leader JULIEN GAILLARD conducted by ALAN PAUL
Excerpts from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas taken from long-playing gramophone records
Produced by VERNON HARRIS
Death of an Escapologist by DAVID WILLIAMS with Michael Forrest and Liane Aukin
Kurt Schiller 's trade was a dangerous one - dropping to the ocean bed in a canvas sack fettered by chains and freeing himself in time to surface triumphantly a few minutes later. But one day he drops - and never surfaces. Accident - or something more sinister? It's a problem for Ross. hard-drinking private eye from a world rather less glossy than that of his screen equivalents.
Other parts JO MANNING WILSON EDWARD KELSEY , GODFREY KENTON CLIFFORD NORGATE
FREDERICK TREVES
Produced by BETTY DAVIES (Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
9.58 Weather
A late-evening conversation in which
BARONESS WOOTTON OF ABINGER economist and author
DOUGLAS HAGUE. economist from the Manchester Business School and BEN WHITAKER. writer exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas, and prejudices With BRIAN REDHEAD
Produced by BRIAN BLAKE (from Manchester)
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV PETER FIRTH with a section of the BBC WEST OF ENGLAND SINGERS directed by PHILIP MOORE
All the day's news preceded by Weather
