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 Producer ANTHONY PARKIN (from Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Radio 4s 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
NORMAN HUNT reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by JON CURLE
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 61; Thy Kingdom come, 0 God (BBC Hymn Book 27); Psalm 145, vv 1-13; Luke 4, vv 1-13; Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30)

Lessons in spoken Italian Incontri in Italia
4: Una fanatica dell'arte moderna
('Rptd Tuesday, 6.30 pm, R3)
10.30-12.0 VHF Open University: see column 1
11.0 Starting German: Reisebiiro Atlas
30: Einladung ins Theater
(LastTuesday's broadcast: R3)
11.30 Perspective A series on the arts
The all-embracing screen
DILYS POWELL discusses with JOHN TREVELYAN and KAREL REISZ the current range of themes in the cinema.
(Publications: see page 12)

Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
Latest news and prospects of a big day's sport including:
The 100th Open Golf Championship at Birkdale; the Lions in New Zealand - Second Test; Cricket - County Championship matches and the Third Test Match at Headingley; Racing from Newbury and York; Athletics - Great Britain v France at Portsmouth
Producer JACOB DE VRIES
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)

Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN Semi-Final (3)
MRS HILDA DAVIES (Glamorgan) farmer's wife
DAVID A. H. WATE (Fife) schoolmaster
RALPH BOWLES (Co Down) quantity surveyor
DERMOT WILSON (Belfast) bacteriologist
Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Tommy Trinder In the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY Special guest Joe Henderson from an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Down Memory Lane with a red-nosed rapport: page 11)

A play for radio by Val Gielgud with William Fox , Joan Matheson and Sean Barrett
The Savage household suffers from a breakdown of communication caused by the generation gap. The son has involved himself in a 'debt of honour' but expects his father to foot the bill. But where is the money to come from?
followed by an interlude

Introduced by Judith Chalmers
My Week: JACQUELINE HICKS
A House To Visit-2: SHIRLEY TAYLOR at Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, Yorkshire
A Good Read: JAMES CAMERON talks about a book he couldn' put down
Leisure Gardens: GEOFFREY GREEN looks at a new approach to allotments
In Love: ALISON BRUCE , BA MASON. JOHN HOLLIS , and MICHAEL WATTS choose the fictional characters of their dreams
The Short Spell by GWYN THOMAS abridged by ANN THOMAS read by ALARIC COTTER

presents
Jack Nicholson from Five Easy Pieces and Roddy McDowell , star of Escape from the Planet 'of the Apes, in a round-up of releases.
Introduced by TONY BILROW Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE

NANCY WISE 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
8: Moment of Truth
Bert Kemp ... EDWARD WOODWARD Elizabeth Whitley. TOBY ROBINS Carlos McGregor. HENRY STAMPER Dona Margarita .SHEILA GRANT Harry Burroughs.MALCOLM HAYES Taxi-driver ..ANTONY HIGGINSON Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: Tuesday, 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. Producer GODFREY DIXEY

'tWixt ISOBEL BARNETT ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD and RICHARD MURDOCH , DAVID NIXON
Tune twisters from STEVE RACE In the chair ROY PLOMLEY . Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer 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
13: Ma's Surprise
It's Ma's birthday, and happy and contented Ma is not an easy person to give a present to. She's got all she wants - except, perhaps, a complete surprise.

by MICHAEL GILBERT with Paul Daneman
A sinister discovery in a deed-box sets off a dramatic train of events in the office of a firm of fashionable solicitors.
Producer NESTA PAIN
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)

A tribute to trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), his life and music, and how attitudes to jazz have changed since Cooke's teenage years in Blackpool.

plays some of her favourite records and explains why they give her particular pleasure

Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV R. BROOKS

All the day's news preceded by Weather