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 WHALE reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by ROY WILLIAMSON
9.45 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ROBERT CARVEL
Narrator BRYAN MARTIN
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE BERNARD TATE , MARTIN COX
New Every Morning page 93; It fell upon a summer day (BBC Hymn Book 71); Psalm 16; Hebrews 13. vv 1-16. 20-21 (jb); Jesu, priceless treasure (BBC HB 518)
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 nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN 13: Northern Ireland (i) RICHARD BURNHAM (Belfast) research student
THE REV JOHN MCCOY (Co Tyrone) JOHN w. LYONS (Belfast) managing director
TERRY MASON (Antrim): lecturer Including ' Beat the Brains ' in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
A spontaneous discussion by Lord David Cecil , Lord Byers Robin Ray , Rosamund John Chairman DAVID JACOBS from Blandford Forum, Dorset
Introduced by Judith Chalmers Kulu - The End of the Habitable World: PENELOPE CHETWODE on her latest book
What the European papers say. Making a Motorway: its effects on the lives of people concerned. JOAN PYPER reports
Pressure Cooking: HELEN cox Guest Andre Previn
The Winter Sound by H. E. BATES abridged by ANN REES JONES read by CELIA JOHNSON
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James Stewart recalling his Hollywood career with soundtrack illustrations from his most popular films. Part 1
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Part 2: next Saturday)
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
The Middle-Aged Spinster's Tate. Written by Joan Lindsay (a winner in the Commuters' Tales competition) and told by June Whitfield.
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
Richard Baker introduces a weekly sequence of favourite music chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists.
by Douglas Reeman: dramatised for radio by Barry Campbell
1941. Captain Richard Chesnaye, DSC, RN, recalled to the Navy after several unwanted years on the beach, is given command of HMS Saracen. Reunited, Chesnaye and Saracen face the problems of a modern war for which, superficially, neither seems well equipped.
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
A late-evening conversation in which GILLIAN REYNOLDS , MAURICE TEMPLE SMITH and BEN DUNCAN exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV STEWART LAMONT
All the day's news preceded by Weather
