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
(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
Presented by Michael Aspel

8.45 Today's Papers

8.59 Weather

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent contributed by the BBC'S Foreign News Staff
(Rev edition: Tues. 9.5 am)

Honor Balfour reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by Ronald Fletcher

Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Robert Carvel
Narrator Peter Barker

NEM p 4: Praise the Lord! (BBC HB 16): Psalm 96; Acts 19, v 34 to 20. v 5: Crown him with many crowns (BBC HB 124)

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(Publications: see page 19)

Introduced by Desmond Lynam

News and prospects of today's big sporting events, featuring Association Football in England and Scotland, Racing, Rugby Union, and Rugby League

Question-masters John Ellison and Tim Gudgin
First Round. 8: Midlands
Malvern Girls' College v Wyggeston Boys' School, Leics
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)

12.55 Weather; programme news

A spontaneous discussion by Lord Greenwood, Dorian Williams, Lord Byers, Lynda Chalker
Chairman David Jacobs
from Woolacombe, Devon

Circumstantial Evidence by EDDIE MAGUIRE with , a long-distance lorry driver, who has his load stolen while he is in a transport café ...
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON

Introduced by Judith Chalmers

My mum goes out to work: some boys and girls talk to June Rose

A Good Read: This week, Sheila Hancock recommends some books she couldn't put down

Managing Your Money: Margaret Allen on Pensions

Reading Your Letters

Sonia Callingham on labour-saving gadgets - 1

Ladies' Night: Alison Bruce

David March reads Another Self by James Lees-Milne abridged by Mollie Hardwick
Second of five instalments

Tony Bilbow talks to Charlton Heston about his long and epic screen career, including his current roles in Julius Caesar and Master of the Islands.

Chosen from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and TV during the past seven days Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Editor NANCY WISE
Research JEAN STROUD
Producer Richard BURWOOD
(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
(For cast see Tuesday, 3.30 pm)

5.55 Weather; programme news

by Alistair Cooke

Highlights of today's sport in the South and Midlands

A series of 13 dramatisations based on the campaign in North Africa during the Second World War with a foreword by General Sir Michael Carver
GCB. CBE, DSO, MC, ADC, Chief Of the General Staff Designate Narrator Michael Flanders Military historical adviser KENNETH MACKSEY 1: Desert AlarmCast:
JOHN BRYNING , MICHAEL COLLINS RONALD FORFAR , ERIC FRANCIS
GARARD GREEN , LESLIE HERITAGE CLIFFORD NORGATE
PETER TUDDENHAM , PATRICK TULL Written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES

Written by BARRY TOOK JOHNNIE MORTIMER and BRIAN COOKE and DONALD WEBSTER starring Kenneth Horne with KENNETH WILLIAMS. HUGH PADDICK and BETTY MARSDEN Music by THE MAX HARRIS GROUP
Announcer DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS

Edgar and Charles by BARRY PEROWNE withand
There is much in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire to suggest that their affinity may have been based on an actual meeting. But where and when?
Lute player ANTHEA GIFFORD Produced by GUY VAESEN (Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
9.58 Weather

Dishonouring the dead: the sad scenes at New York's Hunter College, when acts of Veteran's Day remembrance turned into political stances, and forgot the victims of war.

A late-evening conversation in which CHRISTIAN BONINGTON J. R. L. ANDERSON , and PROFESSOR JOHN COHEN exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas, and prejudices With BRIAN REDHEAD
(from Manchester)

Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV COLIN SEMPER

All the day's news preceded by Weather