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 50-minute worldwide look at the weekend
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
MICHAEL, UNDERHILL reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by CORMAC RIGBY
9.45 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ROBERT CARVEL
Narrator PETER BARKER Producers KEVIN RUANE
MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning, page 61; 0 dearest Lord. by all adored (BBC Hymn Book 266); Psalm 145, vv 1-13; 1 Peter 2. vv 4-12: Lift up your heads (BBC HB 178)
10.30-12.0 VHF Open University: see column 5
10.30 Vient de paraltre
3: Les secrets de la mode
11.0 Wiedersehen in Ansburg 3: Klaus will etwas Neues anfangen
11.30 Amuence and Inequality 3: The Origins of Inequality (Publications: page 17)
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
News and prospects of today's big sporting events featuring: Association Football in England and Scotland; Racing; Rugby Union: Rugby League (Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland Question-masters: JOHN ELLISON and TIM GUDGIN
First Round - 2: Scotland (ii)
ALLOA ACADEMY V
DALZIEL HIGH SCHOOL. Motherwell Questions set by ROY SMITH Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
A spontaneous discussion by SIR EDWIN LEATHER
VIC FEATHER
GYLES BRANDRETH
Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire
Maugham the Storyteller The Alien Corn by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM adapted for radio by ERIC EWENS with In Art. the difference between the amateur and the professional is immeasurable. Neither great riches nor burning passion can bridge the gap, and this knowledge may prove more bitter than some can bear.
Other parts HILDA KRISEMAN FREDERICK TREVES
PianistPAUL HAMBURGER
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Introduced from Leeds by Judith Chalmers 1
My Week: PENISE ROBERTSON
Entertainment Round-up: JUDITH CHALMERS takes a look at what is happening in the world of entertainment
Shopping for a Carpet: PETER HIRD bought one the. hard way Middle c: GAENOR THOMAS looks at the work of the piano-tuners Mr Portway 's Practice by MICHAEL GILBERT abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS read by DENIS MCCARTHY
presents
Mike Nichols , award-winning director of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolff, The Graduate, Catch 22 and Carnal Knowledge.
Introduced by DAVID GEARY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano look back at the week's news and illustrate the funny side
5.55 Weather; programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Highlights of today's sport in the South and Midlands. Producer GODFREY DIXEY
Clift Morgan plays some of his favourite records and explains why they give him particular pleasure
The Younger Generation by Stanley Houghton adapted by Brian Thompson
'Father's never stopped me from doing anything I wanted to. A fellow can find ways to do things only, of course, he's obliged to do them in an underhand secret way and that's what I object to ... but when he thinks it's a deadly sin to drink a glass of beer or to go to a Music-Hall, what else can I do? '
Producer Tony Cliff
Lady Violet Bonham Carter on her early life at the turn of the century, from her first meeting with Mr Gladstone to 1 coming out ' as an Edwardian deb.
(From a BBC1 conversation between Baroness Asquith and Kenneth Harris in 1967) 9.58 Weather
A late-evening conversatin in which
THE BISHOP OF DURHAM MARY SCRUTTON
MAURICE TEMPLE SMITH exchange thoughts, opinion ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)
Evening Prayers conducted b THE REV VERNON SPROXTON
All the day's news preceded by Weather
