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
Jack de Manio presents Radio 4's hour-long worldwide look at the weekend
Today's Papers at 8.45
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
GERARD EVANS reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by DAVID BROOMFIELD
9.45 The Week in Westminster ROBERT CARVEL introduces coverage on this week's special parliamentary debates on Northern Ireland, and TREVOR smith looks at other aspects of the political scene
Narrator PETER BARKER
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX and BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning page 83; 0 thou in all thy might so far (BBC Hymn Book 312); Psalm 50; Luke 21, v 29, to 22, v 6; 0 Food of men wayfaring (BBC HB 2θ9)
10.30-12.0 VHF Open University: see column 2
10.30 Incontri in Italia
14: Uno studioso del passato
11.0 Help Yourself to English 10: You're early this morning
11.30 Stranger than Truth
Science fiction as literature, as speculative science, as satire and as fantasy. 4: Psychospace
J. G. BALLARD talks about his own book The Drowned World as a forerunner of ' inner space ' science fiction. (Publications: page 14)
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 weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services in Cyprus and Malta.
Panel: Nan Winton, Ted Moult, Neil Durden-Smith
v. RAF Luqa, in Malta: Sq Ldr Bill Mulvenney, Chief Techn Alasdair McLain, Flight Sgt Terry Donegan, Flight Lt Derek Soar
Question-master Alun Williams
Questions set and programme produced by Michael Tuke-Hastings
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
A spontaneous discussion by DAVID FRANKLIN , LORD MANCROFT RT HON RICHARD MARSH
JACKY GILLOTT
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Tewkesbury
Listeners' views for use in Any Answerst should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol, BS8 2L.R
The Hundred Lamps by BARBARA FOXE with and My world will light its hundred different lamps with thy flame and place them before the altar of thy temple (Tagore)
Producer ROGER PINE
Introduced by Judith Chalmers
My Week: CHRISTIANNA BRAND
Entertainment Round-up: JUDITH CHALMERS takes a look at what is happening in the world of entertainment
Guest: THE REV NICOLAS STACEY
The press-how free?: Tom BAISTOW With PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE
Murder by Jury by MICHAEL GILBERT abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS read by DENIS MCCARTHY
presents
Peter Finch who recalls his career on stage and screen Introduced by DAVID GEARY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
(Shortened version of last Friday's broadcast) X
from the novel "Inspector West Makes Haste" by John Creasey dramatised as a serial in six parts by Maurice Travers
with Patrick Allen as Chief Insp Roger West and Sarah Lawson as his wife, Janet
Roger West's vital witness has been shot and it looks as though his investigations are getting too close for someone's comfort.
5.55 Weather: programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE f
Highlights of today's sport in the South and Midlands Producer GODFREY DIXEY
The Political and Imperialistic Aspi With PETER REEVES PAT WHITMORE CHARLES YOUNG
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)
The Religious Body
Adapted from CATHERINE AIRD 'S novel by ALISON PLOWDEN
If the tranquil life of the Convent of St Anselm's had been all it seemed on the surface, why had Inspector Sloan been sent for so urgently?
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
A late-evening conversation in which
FRANK FIELD, MERVYN PIKE. MP PROFESSOR DONALD MACKAY exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with Brian Keanead Producer
MICHAEL GREEN
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV DR RONALD FALCONER , OBE
All the day's news preceded by Weather