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 Todays 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
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
COLIN VALDAR reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by JON CURLE
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Narrator Douglas Smith Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE HUGH PURCELL , MARTIN COX
New Every Morning page 83: Lord, thy word abideth (BBC Hymn Book 190): Psalm 50: Acts 7, v 51. to 8, v 4: 0 God of truth (BBC HB 359)
It is just over 11 years ago that a penniless and bewildered Cape Coloured cricketer arrived in this country to try his luck. Today, looking back over the events of more than a decade, Basil D'Oliveira talks about his first impressions of England, his title role in the D'Oliveira Affair , his past life under apartheid, his present motivating force and his hopes for South Africa's future to DICK KNIGHT and IAN WOOLDRIDGE Produced by MICHAEL EMBER
(First broadcast in the British Forces Broadcasting Service)
10.30-12.15 VHF Open University: see column 2
on The Official Birthday of Her Majesty the Queen The Queen's Colour of the 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards is being trooped
There will be eight Guards with a Sovereign's Escort of the Household Cavalry
Music played by the MASSED BANDS OF THE GUARDS DIVISION and the MASSED BANDS OF THE LIFE GUARDS AND THE BLUES AND ROYALS
Scene described by ROBERT HUDSON from
Horse Guards Parade, London
Introduced by JOHN MOTSON
Latest news and prospects of a big days sport including: Racing from York; Golf from Norwich; Cycling - Milk Race -Tour of Britain: Cricket - Gillette Cup Produced by JACOB DE VRIES (Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
Second Round. 8: Wales
A spontaneous discussion by THE RT HON RICHARD MARSH
LUDOVIC KENNEDY
DAME IRENE WARD , MP C. A. JOYCE
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN
by Owen Leeming
This play shows the effect upon basically honest men in New Zealand in 1933 of unaccustomed but violent crime, forced upon them by the great economic depression.
Introducer Judith Chalmers My Week: GILLIAN REYNOLDS
Books about Places: JOHNNY MORRIS makes a choice
Torn or Frayed: MARYON EELES on quick repairs
Enthusiasm- a Thing of the Past?: SUE MACGREGOR enquires A War of Liberation by FRANK TUOHY abridged by DOREEN ESTALL read by HUGH BURDEN
presents
Dirk Bogarde in Rome talking about the films he has made on the Continent, including Visconti's Death in Venice Introduced by TONY BILBOW Written by LYN FAIRHURST Produced by BOBBY JAYE
NANCY wish makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
(Shortened version of last Friday's broadcast)
The novel by GAVIN LYALL adapted as an eight-part serial by BETTY DAVIES with Edward Woodward and Toby Robins
Bert finds that Henri Bernard has walked off with 'his suitcase by mistake. He goes to Henri's hotel to collect it ... 4: Appointment in Venice
Produced by BETTY DAVIES (Repeated: Tuesday, 3.30 pm) (John Gabriel is appearing in ' Abelard and Heloise' at the Wyndham's Theatre, Londoni
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday, 9.15 am)
Highlights of today's sport in the South and Midlands.
'twixt ISOBKL BARNETT ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD and RICHARD MURDOCH , DAVID NIXON
Tune twisters from STEVE RACE In the chair ROY PLOMLEY Devised and written by IAN MESSITF. R
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE (Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 pm)
with Bernard Miles. Betty Marsden Written by HARRY IBBETSON based on the characters in the Larkin family saga by H. E. BATES
9: Ma- The Reviver
by 1.UCIENNE HILL with Daphne Goddard , David March and Rosalind Shanks
Who would have thought that a play and a pseudonym could have sparked off so much drama so far from the theatre?
Produced by R. D. SMITH
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
A programme for
Commonwealth Day
Introduced by SHIVA NAIPAUL and including:
BERNARD BRADEN (Canadian) DR MONt CHATTO (Indian) JOHN NAGENDA (Ugandan)
In 1971 citizens from every country in the Commonwealth are living and working in Britain. Why does a West Indian lawyer work here? Does a New Zealand academic enjoy living here? What does a political writer from Uganda like and dislike about his adopted home? What does the Commonwealth mean to a travel agent from Ceylon, and to an Indian actress?
Produced by ALAN BURGESS
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV COLIN SEMPER
proceded by Weather
