6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Outlook
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern t.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
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
BBC Correspondents talk about the news. its background, and the people who make it
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by COLIN VALDAR
Produced by MARTIN cox
A musical self-disclosure from Marghanita Laski
New Every Morning, page 26: My song is love unknown (BBC HB 841: Psalm 22; Isaiah 26, vv 1-12 (rsv); Rock of ages (BBC HB 296)
A second-year French course of 25 lessons Programme 1
A 30-lesson course in simple colloquial German for beginners
Frau Bender rings up Reiseburo Atlas to enquire about her air ticket to Munich.
Ten programmes about the impact of Europe on the Indies during the Era of the Companies 1600-1824.
(Monday's broadcast: Radio 3) [Repeat]
(Publications: page 14)
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. including Sports Report: 2.0-5.57 pm)
A general knowledge contest between girls' and boys' schools in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland Question -masters
JOHN ELLISON and TIM GUDGIN First Round.
4: South of England
Priory School, Lewes (Girls) v Sutton Valence School, Kent (Boys)
Questions set by ROY SMITH Production assistant GERALDINE CHURCH
Produced by MARTIN FISHER (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
A spontaneous discussion by SIR JOHN HACKETT
PETER HALL
JOAN BAKEWELL
PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from the Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Kent. Canterbury ‡
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be sent to Any
Answers?. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
by PIERS PAUL READ with Dinsdale Landen and Caroline Mortimer
'It's almost impossible for single women to get jobs that pay as well as mine: and anyway, I don'want to work night shifts. Why don'you change your wife? .
Produced by SUSANNA CAPON (Dinsdale Landen is in 'The Philanthropist ' at the May Fair Theatre, London)
Introduced by Judith Chalmers
What about a Freezer? - 1:
PETER BOYD COX, AUDREY ELLIS , ANNE DARE
A Good Read: this week LENA JEGER , mp, recommends some books she couldn'put down
Managing Your Money: MAR-caret ALLEN on what it means to widowed and divorced women The Community of the Ark: HELEN MAYER stayed there on a visit to France
I don'understand it: MOLLY WEIR , NICOLETTE LEE , CYRIL FLETCHER , JOHN WOODFORDE
DELIA PATON reads A Bird in the House by MARGARET LAURENCE (7)
TONY BILBOW looks at the wide variety of screen entertainment including: The Reivers, The Walking Stick, and Eye-witness.
Written by LYN FAIRHURST Produced by BOBBY JAYE
Chosen from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and TV (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. starring Edward de Souza John Graham and Richard Caldicot 2: Operation Hostage
(For cast see Tuesday. 3.30)
5.55Weather; programmenews
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
3: Fame and Fortune
Other parts MARJORIE WESTBURY PETER PRATT. LEWIS FIANDER and MARK KELLY
The Narrator HUGH BURDEN
Excerpts from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas taken from long-playing gramophone records Produced bv VERNON HARRIS
Dark Eagle
A play for radio based on the life and career of Benedict Arnold by VAL GIELGUD with William Squire as Benedict Arnold
'The Dark Eagle will soar aloft to the sun. Nations will behold him and sound his praises. Yet when he soars highest his fall is most certain. When his wings brush the sky, then the arrow will pierce his heart.' (The Indian Natanis to Arnold at their first meeting)
Joshua Smith. .......JOHN GABRIEL Major Tallmadge.KERRY FRANCIS Richard Varick. ......SEAN ARNOLD Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY † (Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
(Martin Jarvis is in ' Divorce in Chancery' at the New Theatre. Bromley)
A late-evening conversation in which Dee Annan, teacher, Harold Riley, painter, and L.T.C. Rolt, writer, exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas, and prejudices with Brian Redhead
(from Manchester)
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV STEWART CROSS with a section of the NORTHERN SINGERS directed by STEPHEN WILKINSON
All the day's news preceded by Weather
