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, with FRED STREETER in the garden and TROMPETTo in the kitchen.
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
JOHN HALE reviews what the weeklies have to say. with illustrations read by DOUGLAS SMITH
9.45 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ROBERT CARVEL
Narrator STUART FORSYTH Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
BERNARD TATE , MARTIN COX
New Every Morning page 68: Sing to the Lord (BBC Hymn Book 19); Psalm 104, vv 25-36: Hebrews 10, vv 11-27, 31 (JB): Now thank we all our God (BBC IIB 277)
Introduced by PETER JONES
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 nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN 12: Wales (ii)
MRS HYLDA MORLEY (Caernarvonshire)
MRS PAULA YATES (Carmarthen) NIGEL YATES (Carmarthen) assistant archivist
JAMES KILLEY (Denbighshire) design engineer
Including ' Beat the Brains ' in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Devised and written by JOHN WYNN 1.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WLSON (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news
A spontaneous discussion by Sylvia Syms , Lord Greenwood Bernard Levin. Peter Blaker , mp Chairman DAVID JACOBS from Blackburn, Lancashire
Introduced by Judith Chalmers The Music of the Pearl
DAVID FANSHAWE with recordings Looking After the Pennies: VERA ELLISON tells EVELYN ROSE about the Manchester Small Claims Arbitration Scheme
A Disastrous Dinner Party: in DIANA MORRISON 'S caravan
On the eve of the Referendum: ANNE LAUnENS talking from Paris Talking Point: ' Respect for the past must be pious, but not mad GILLIAN TINDALL and DAVID BENEDICTUS in discussion with JOAN YORKE
The Courtship by H. E. RATES abridged by ANN REES JONES read by LAURENCE HARRINGTON
presents a round-up of releases including:
Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett as Steptoc and Son
Ian Bannen. John Paul and Simon Oates in Doomwatch Introductd by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
IntroJuced by JOHN ELLISON
In which travellers on the Southern Region pass their time like Chaucer's pilgrims by telling stories. This week:
The Barber's Tale. Written by Arthur O'Connor (a winner in the Commuters' Tales competition) and told by Alfred Marks to Manning Wilson and John Samson.
(Alfred Marks is in Don'Just Lie There, Say Something at the Garrick, London.)
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Highlights of today's sport in the South and Midlands Producer GODFREY DIXEY
Richard Baker introduces a weekly sequence of favourite music chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists.
HMS Saracen by Douglas REEMAN: dramatised for radio by BARRY CAMPBELL Part 1: The Midshipman
1915. Mr Midshipman Richard Chesnaye. RN, joins his first ship. She is. as he is. a new-comer to the Fleet: a new weapon specifically designed to bombard an enemy shoreline. She sails for the Mediterranean and the beaches of Gallipoli.
Producer ROGER PINE
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm) (Pt 2, The Captain: next Sat)
A late-evening conversation in Which ROGER POOLE , STUART HAMPSHIRE and MARY MIDCLEY exchange thoughts, opinions. ideas, prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV VERNON SPROXTON
preceded by Weather
