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
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN (from Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather ana programme news
Radio 4's 50-minute worldwide look at the weekend presented by Joan Bakewell 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
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
NORMAN HUNT 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 ELIZABETH SMITH
MICHAEL GILLIAM , BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning, page 83; Blessed Jesus, at thy word (BBC Hymn Book 257); Psalm 119, part 6; Luke 5. v 36 to 6. v 5; Almighty God. thy word is cast (BBC HB 188)
Incontri in Italia
5: Una cura dimagrante
(Rptd: Tuesday 6.30 pm, R3)
10.30-12.0 VHF Open University: see column 5
11.0 Help Yourself to English
1: The Brief Case
(Rptd: Wed 7.0 pm. R3)
11.30 Perspective A series on the arts
Dancers in Dialogue
(Publications: see page 10)
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
Latest news and prospects of a big day's sport including:
Motor Racing - The Woolmark British Grand Prix: Racing-Timeform Meeting at Doncaster; County Cricket: Athletics-Women's AAA Championships at Crystal Palace; The Lions in New Zealand; Golf - French Open Championship.
Produced by JACOB DE VRIES (Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
of this general knowledge contest in which the three finalists compete for the title:
MRS HILDA DAVIES (Glamorgan) farmer's wife
FRED MORGAN (Northumberland) insurance official
RICHARD CONDON (Birmingham) lecturer
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
A Saturday edition covering the special Labour Party Conference on the Common Market at Central Hall, Westminster: presented by Nicholas Woolley. Producer ROGER FRAZER Editor HARRY BROWN
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cyril Fletcher In the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY Special guest Sheila Hancock from an idea by jimmy EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
A radio play by ARTHUR SWINSON The attacks made by the Vicar of St Luke 's upon his parishioners during his sermons, of which he is quite unaware. cause great concern in the diocese. The solution links the days of the Roman occupation of Britain with the present.
Producer JOE BURROUGHS
Introduced by Judith Chalmers
My Week: EIRLYS ROBERTS
Entertainment Round-Up: JUDITH CHALMERS
Moving House without Tears: MADGE HART enquires
A House to Visit: -3: BRIAN GEAR at Stourhead Good Night, Julius by GWYN THOMAS abridged by ANN THOMAS read by ALARIC COTTER
presents Anna Calder-Marshall and Timothy Dalton in the new Wuthering Heights and looks at other remakes of cinema classics.
Introduced by DAVID GEARY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
(Shortened version of last Friday's broadcast)
A serial for radio in six parts by STEWART FARRAR with Martin Jarvis and Patricia Gallimore
'Just think what you have here. Biodar - the first radar in the world, so far as we know. that can pick up sentient life and locate it exactly ...' 1: The Black Arc
(For cast see Tues. 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
A Night at the Canterbury - 1856
With PETER REEVES
BENNY LEE , CHARLES YOUNG
PAT WHITMORE , VERNON MIDGLEY MUSIC-HALL SINGERS directed by CHARLES YOUNG Orchestra conducted by ALFRED RALSTON
Chairman Roy Hudd
Written by CHARLES CHILTON Producers CHARLES chilton and RICHARD WILLCOX
(Roy Hudd is in ' Danny La Rue at the Palace' at the Palace Theatre, London)
by N.C. Hunter
adapted for radio by Mollie Hardwick
with Coral Browne and Virginia Maskell
"Most of us spend all our time trying not to hope for what is quite unattainable, trying to be content with what we have. It's not kind to make us dream of the waters of the moon, of all kinds of happiness that are out of reach..."
(For cast see Mon, 3.0 pm)
Douglas Stuart reporting, with a Saturday edition covering the special Labour Party Conference on the Common Market at Central Hall, Westminster
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV PETER FIRTH
All the day's news preceded by Weather