6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Outlook
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
6.58-7.8 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.18 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, including live reports from the Seventh Test at Sydney: presented by Douglas Cameron
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 bv the BBC's Foreign News Staff
(Revised edition: Tues 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
JOHN WHALE 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 TERENCE LANCASTER
Narrator Douglas Smith Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX, BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning page 61; The Church of God a kingdom is (BBC Hymn Book 1831: Psalm 97; St. John 1. vv 40-51: Sing Alleluia forth in duteous praise (BBC HB 282)
Programme 14
10.30-12.0 VHF Open University: see column 2
11.0 Starting German: Reisebiiro Atlas
14: Klaus geht zum Postamt
11.30 Reading to Learn 6: Revolutions and the Poet
(Repeated: Wed, 7.0 pm. R3) (Publications: see page 12)
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 2.0 pm)
A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN 5: Midlands
MRS ANNE JONES (Rutland)
MICHAEL PATCHELL (Warwickshire) lecturer
DAVID SMITH (Worcestershire) publicity executive
RICHARD CONDON (Birmingham) lecturer
Including 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)
12.55Weather; programme news
A spontaneous discussion by RUSSELL BRADDON. ANTONY HOPKINS SYLVIA SYMS, HUGH SCANLON Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from Chelmsford, Essex i
by LUIGI PIRANDELLO translated by FREDERICK MAY with Michael Aldridge Anthony Jacobs and Hilda Schroder
With Pirandello , nothing is quite what it seems - even a marriage.
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Introduced by Judith Chalmers
The Cost of Being a Woman Alone-3: PATSY KUMM talks to a single girl with a career
Are You a Twin?: JUDITH FAUST on a scientific research study
Small Gadgets: SONYA CALLING-HAM takes a look at labour-saving gadgets
La'keland Holidays: LYN MAC-DONALD
This Riffht Soft Lot by EDWARD BLISHEN abridged by JANET HICKSON Read by MARTIN JARVIS
A radio competition for bands Round 1: Programme 7 Templemore Band conductor ALFRED BELL v
Thoresby Colliery Welfare Band conductor WILLIAM LIPPEATT Adjudicators E. C. BUTTRESS ALEX MORTIMER , VILEM TAUSKY Introduced by DOUGLAS SMITH Produced by ALLAN GILES
(Shortened version of last Friday's broadcast)
The last in a series of plays written by ANTHONY SCOTT VEITCH featuring William Gaunt Catch As Catch Can
An old friend of Frank Pybus , Pinkie Ambler , runs a gambling club in Lowood - a clean club until an ex-wrestler, Sid King , tries to take over not only the club but Pinkie's wife. (For cast see Tuesday, 3.30)
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
Victorian Music-Hall with all the favourites from
The Players' Theatre
Underneath the Arches at Charing Cross
Chairman DOMINIC LE FOE introduces
MARGARET ASHTON. JOHN HEWER DENIS MARTIN , DUDLEY STEVENS FRED STONE and VIOLETTA plus
IAN WALLACE
Favourite ballads for the Family Circle
HUGH PADDICK and SHEILA BERNETTE Two Straw Hats with a smile and a song
STELLA MORAY With
The Songs of Florrie Forde ERNST NASER
Melodies on a zither
At the piano PETER GREENWELL Additional script material CARDEW ROBINSON Produced bv
TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Sheila Bernette is in 'Aladdin ' at the London Palladium)
by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE adapted for radio by FELIX FELTON with Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley
Holmes and Watson go down to the wilds of Dartmoor to unravel the weird mystery of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
Produced by ROBIN MIDGLEY
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
A late-evening conversation in which
JOAN BAKEWELL , WILLIAM DAVIS and NICHOLAS GARLAND exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
(from Manchester)
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV JOHN ROBERTS
All the day's news preceded by Weather
