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
Radio 4's breakfast-time look at what Britain is getting up to this weekend - and what's happening abroad: 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 by 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 DOUGLAS SMITH
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with TERENCE LANCASTER
Narrator Peter Barker
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning, page 87: Praise the Lord! (BBC Hymn Book 16); Psalm 119, part 5: St John 4, vv 3-14; Lead, kindly light (BBC HB 306)
Programme 15
10.30-12.0 VHF Open University: see col 2
15: Klaus sucht Fraulein Borkmann
(LastTuesday'sbroadcast: R3)
7: All Life is Learning
(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 6: North of England (i)
ELINOR N. CARTER (Westmorland) schoolteacher
JOHN PRIESTLEY (Cheshire)
Regimental Museum curator DICK HOLMES (Yorkshire) tailor's cutter
FRANK BLAKESLEY (Chester) civil servant
Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Devised and written by JOHN P. WVNN. Produced by JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
A spontaneous discussion by LADY BARNETT
RT HON JEREMY THORPE , MP ALASTAIR BURNET
RT HON HAROLD LEVER , MP Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from Loughborough, Leics
A comedy for radio by MICHAEL HARDWICK with Geoffrey Bayldon
' Mr Upjohn said he could live on fresh air - and very nearly had to.'
Produced by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Introduced by Judith Chalmers
Beryl Grey , Artistic Director of the London Festival Ballet, interviewed by BRIAN GEAR
Do-lt-Yourself for Women - 1: GEORGINA HORLEY talks to BILL Lendrem , manager of an equipment hire shop
Vacances avec une difference: GEORGE KAY
A Good Read: MARGARET DRABBLE talks about some books she couldn'put down
An Impractical Luxury?: SUSAN DENNY reports on fitted carpets in the kitchen
Last Recollections of My Uncle Charles by NIGEL BALCHIN abridged by MOLLIE HARDWICK Read by Richard Hurndall (First of six instaiments)
Round 1: Programme 8 Cory Workmen's Band conducted by ARTHUR KENNEY v
Wingates Temperance Band conductor DENNIS SMITH
Adjudicators e. c. BUTTRESS
ALEX MORTIMER , VILEM TAUSKY Introduced by DOUGLAS SMITH Produced by ALLAN GILES
(Shortened version of last Friday's broadcast) 1
A serial thriller in six parts by Edward Boyd
Starring Teddy Johnson as Steve Gardiner with Moultrie Kelsall as Det Insp Gordon and Janet Michael as Judy Clark
This serial features the wheeling and dealing gentleman Steve Gardiner, previously encountered in The Candle of Darkness and Enough Fingers to Make a Hand.
He is again involved in a series of murders, this time in a hotel beside a lonely Scottish loch.
(For cast see Tues, 3.30 pm)
5.55 Weather; programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE +
(itepeated; Sunday, 9.15 am)
Highlights of today's sport in the South and Midlands.
Produced by GODFREY DIXEY
with all the favourites from The Players' Theatre
Underneath the Arches at Charing Cross
Chairman DOMINIC LE FOE introduces
MAURICE BROWNING
JOSEPHINE CORDON
MARION GRIMALD1 , DENIS MARTIN LAURIE PAYNE and ANNA SHARKEY plus
IAN WALLACE
Favourite ballads for the Family Circle
HUGH PADDICK and SHEILA BERNETTE Two Straw Hats with a smile and a song
DERYK PARKIN with The Songs of Harry Champion JOHNNY LAYCOCK : Two hands-two instruments! Extraordinary At the piano GEOFFREY BRAWN Additional script material CARDEW ROBINSON Produced by TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Sheila Bernette is in ' Aladdin ' at the London Palladium; Marion Grimaldi in ' Robinson Crusoe ' at the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford)
by ARTHUR KISH with Patrick Mower
Marney gets a posting to Moscow - as a security guard at the British Embassy. Once there he meets the defector, Rawlingham, and takes his first step on the trail of Sir
Produced by COLIN TUCKER (Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
A late-evening conversation in which
ENID MUMFORD , DAVID COLLEY and PROFESSOR W. H. G. ARMYTAGE exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
(from Manchester)
Evening Prayers led by THE REV ELWYN LLOYD WILLIAMS with the NORTH WALES SINGERS conductor JAMES WILLIAMS
All the day's news preceded by Weather
