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 50-minute worldwide look at the weekend presented by Michael Aspel and featuring Graham Kerr
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
9.30 The Weekly World
ANTHONY KING 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 ROBERT CARVEL
Narrator David Broomfield Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning, page 61: The Church of God a kingdom is (BBC hb 183): Psalm 145, vv 1-13; St John 9. vv 1-12: Spread, 0 spread, thou mighty word (BBC HB 182)
Programme 19
10.30-12.0 VHF Open University: see col 2
19: Herr Afuller und Fraulein Koch in Hamburg
(Last Tuesday's broadcast: R3)
Don Juan
(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 10: Scotland (iii)
MRS MARY MCNAIR (Renfrewshire) housewife
DAVID A. H. WATE (Fife) schoolmaster
DR WILLIAM TAYLOR (Ayrshire) physician
PETER wardrop (West Lothian) schoolmaster
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
12.55Weather: programme news
A spontaneous discussion by C. A. JOYCE. MARY COLDRING
RT HON RICHARD MARSH , MP JOHN BIGGS-DAVISON . MP Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from Cowes, Isle of Wight
by FRED BASNETT
A young couple buy a house. They find themselves saddled with a somewhat unusual neighbour, Miss Treganowan. The old lady believes that she is being persecuted by her landlord. Is it all in her imagination or not?
Produced by MARTIN JENKINS
Introduced by Judith Chalmers
Women Alone: ANTHONY BAMBRIDGE talks to KAY EVANS about making provision for retirement
Entertaining for the Woman Alone: MARY MEREDITH
The Institution of Marriage: discussed by ANNE ALLEN, EVA FIGES and NICHOLAS TOMALIN
Making Murder Pay: an interview with the award-winning crime writer JOAN FLEMING
Frankly Speaking: ANNE SUTER envies children their freedom of speech
RICHARD HURNDALL reads Last Recollections of My Uncle Charles by NIGEL BALCHIN (5)
A radio competition for bands Round 2: Programme 4 Cory Workmen's Band conductor ARTHUR KENNEY v
Thoresby Colliery Welfare Band conductor WILLIAM LIPPEATT Adjudicators E. BUTTRESS c.
ALEX MORTIMER , VILEM TAUSKY Introduced by douglas SMITH Produced by ALLAN GILES
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and TV during the past seven davs
Introduced by ROBERT DOUGALL
(Shortened version of last Friday's broadcast)
A serial thriller in six parts by EDWARD BOYD starring Teddy Johnson as Steve Gardiner with Moultrie Kelsall as Det-Insp Gordon
Tricia Scott as Sally Stewart Janet Michael as Judy Clark Willy Joss as Jacob Purdy Robert Urquhart as Capt Siegfried Bevvis
Without seeing the murderer, Steve heard Ketch being pushed over the cliff and found the body on the shore below. Now Gordon says the body is no longer there. 5: The Truth
Produced by EDDIE FRASER (from Glasgow)
5.55 Weather; programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
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 , JOHN HEWER HOPE JACKMAN . DENIS MARTIN
SHEILA MATHEWS. LAURIE PAYNE plus IAN WALLACE
Favourite Ballads for the Family Circle
HUGH PADDICK and SHEILA BERNETTE Two Straw Hats with a smile and a song
TOMMY REILLY : The Solid Silver Harmonica Wizard and FRANCES BARLOW
The Songs of Clarice Mayne
At the piano PETER GREENWELL Additional script material by CARDEW ROBINSON. Produced by TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
by John Patrick; adapted for radio by Duncan McIntyre with Duncan McIntyre and Isabel Dean
The action of the play is set in a convalescent ward in a temporary British General Hospital somewhere to the rear of the Assam-Burma front during the Second World War.
(Repeated Monday, 3.0 pm)
followed by an interlude
9.58 Weather
A late-evening conversation in which MICHAEL FOOT. MP RT HON WILLIAM DEEDES , MP and MADELEINE SIMMS exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Produced by MICHAEL GREEN
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV W. D. KENNEDY-BELL
All the day's news preceded by Weather
