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
Produced by ANTHONY PARKIN
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: presented by Michael Aspel
8.45 Today's Papers
Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad, starting with 9.5 From Our Own
Correspondent
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News Staff
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
DAVID FRANKLIN reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by DAVID BROOMFIELD
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with IAN WALLER
Narrator Douglas Smith Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE SUSAN ERLBECK , MARTIN COX
New Every Morning page 83; Father of mercies (BBC Hymn Book 189); Psalm 33, vv 1-12; 1 Peter 4, vv 12-19 (NEB); Blest are the pure in heart (BBC HB 318)
Special Horoscope
The last of four extra programmes for the holiday period i
10.30-12.0 VHF Open University: see column 2
Verreisen Sie zum Winter-sport'
2: The Process of Discovery - History
Presented by FRED FLOWER (Repeated: Wed, 7.0 pm, R3) (Publications: see page 12)
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. (Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN 1: London
MRS SARAH HARRIS
magistrate
MRS LINDSAY ADAMSON : housewife PATRICK FERGUSON : journalist
PETER CARRUTHERS : Civil Servant The programme includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN. Produced by JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm) (The Brains - you can'join 'em, beat 'em: page 11)
12.55Weather; programme news
A spontaneous discussion by NORMAN ST JOHN-STEVAS , MP RT HON DENIS HEALEY , MP SIR JOHN HACKETT
NEMONE LETHBRIDGE
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from the Central Hall, Chatham
by Alick Rowe
with Alaric Cotter as Rex
'You scorn too much; you hate too much. You have a terrible lack of indifferent ease about you. You lie, you steal, yet I'll swear you're not bad or malicious.'
That, at least, was the Matron's opinion of Rex.
Introduced by Judith Chalmers
The Cost of Being a Woman Alone-1: a widow talks to
PATSY KUMM
Holidays for Women Alone: suggestions from
LORNA BRAITHWAITE and ADRIENNE KEITH COHEN I'm a ' Before ' Man:
CYRIL FULBROOK
Watchdog: How accurate is your supermarket bill?: MAUREEN O'CONNOR finds OUt
The Beauty Trap:
JEANNE JAUNIER
talks to JOAN YORKE about her book
MARTIN jarvis reads This Right Soft Lot by EDWARD BLISHEN (4)
A radio competition for bands Round 1: Programme 3
The Cammell Laird Band conductor JAMES SCOTT v
Hammond's Sauce Works Band conductor GEOFFREY WHITHAM Adjudicators E. C. BUTTRESS
ALEX MORTIMER , VILEM T AUSKY Introduced by DOUGLAS SMITH Produced by ALLAN GILES
(Shortened version of last Friday's broadcast)
A series of plays written by ANTHONY SCOTT VEITCH featuring William Gaunt as Mister Pybus
Transit Continental
Two loads of used currency notes being returned from BAOR to the Bank of England for destruction have been hijacked. A third, worth half a million pounds, is to be sent, this time under the protection of Frank Pybus and Holdfast.
(For cast see Tues, 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 series of 13 dramatisations based on the campaign in North Africa during the Second World War
Narrator Michael Flanders Military historical adviser KENNETH MACKSEY
10:The Battle for EgyptCast: MICHAEL COLLINS
GERALD CROSS GARARD GREEN RONALD FORFAR EDWARD KELSEY CLIFFORD NORGATE
FREDERICK TREVES , PATRICK TULL Written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES
Written by BARRY took, JOHNNIE MORTIMER and BRIAN COOKE starring Kenneth Horne with KENNETH WILLIAMS , HUGH PADDICK and BETTY MARSDEN Music by THE MAX HARRIS GROUP
Announcer DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
The Party by JANE ARDEN with Francis de Wolff
Elizabeth Proud , Madi Hedd and David Valla
' Everyone trembles on occasions with father. Sometimes I've gone into cloakrooms to stop myself shaking, or to avoid eyes watching us across a room watching father imitate a dog, or a bear, or a fox -it wouldn'be so bad if it were a sly fox, or a fox with a purpose, but it's always a drooling fox. or a lame fox, or a fox with no tail, or no teeth, or no eyes ... '
Radio adaptation by PEGGY WELLS
Produced by BETTY DAVIES † (Repeated: Monday 3.0 pm)
A late-evening conversation in which
THE COUNTESS OF LONGFORD SIR JOHN NEWSOM and MAURICE TEMPLE-SMITH exchange thoughts, opinions. ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
(from Manchester)
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV TREGELLES WILLIAMS
All the day's news preceded by Weather
