6.27 Farming Today
Presented by ROBIN HICKS
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, with FRED STREETER in the garden and TROMPETTO in the kitchen. Today's Papers at 8.45
8.59 Weather
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
BRIAN CONNELL reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by STUART FORSYTH
9.45 Talking Politics
ANTHONY KING investigates the relationship between journalists and politicians and looks at a day in the life of a lobby correspondent
Narrator DOUGLAS smith
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning page 96; Christ for the world we sing! (BBC Hymn Book 172); Psalm 42: Acts 14. vv 8-26 (NEB): At the name of Jesus (BBC HB 120)
on The Official Birthday of Her Majesty the Queen
The Queen's Colour of the 1st Bn Coldstream Guards is being trooped
There will be eight Guards with a Sovereign's Escort of the Household Cavalry
Music played by the MASSED BANDS OF THE GUARDS DIVISION and THE MASSED BANDS OF THE LIFE
GUARDS AND THE BLUES AND ROYALS Scene described by ROBERT HUDSON from
Horse Guards Parade, London
Introduced by PETER JONES Producer GEOFF DOBSON
Latest news and prospects of a big afternoon's sport, including Tennis from Paris; Rugby Union from South Africa; Golf from Sandwich; Cychng; Cricket; and Racing from Kempton Park
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
A nationwide general knowledge contest
Chairman IAN GILLIES 4: Midlands
MRS JOY MCQUADE, Herefordshire housewife
AUBREY LAWRENCE , Worcestershire trainee librarian
JOHN WHITMARSH , Herefordshire retired microbiologist
(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
A spontaneous discussion by The Bishop of Stepney John Junor
Bryan Forbes
Elizabeth Jane Howard Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Merton. Surrey
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be sent to Any
Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Introduced by Judith Chalmers Entertainment Round-up: JUDITH CHALMERS takes a look at what is happening in the world of entertainment
What the European papers say Butterfly Farm: ROBERT GOODDEN talks to KATHRYN ADIE
Confrontation: THE RT HON MARGARET THATCHER , MP, Secretary of State for Education and Science, is questioned by a panel of Woman's Hour listeners on the subject of raising the school leaving age JOHN BRYNING reads
Six Came Flying by MARQUIS MACSWINEY OF MASHANAGLASS (2)
In this year's Commonwealth Day programme the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation presents the story of its country and its people followed by an interlude
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
to me. says
Richard Briers
In conversation with ROBIN RAY he describes, with illustrations, what makes him laugh, and explores the paradox of comic desperation.
Producer PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)
5.55 Weather; programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Highlights of today's sport in the South and Midlands. Producer GODFREY DIXEY
Jean Metcalfe introduces a weekly sequence of favohrite music chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists.
The Scapegoat
The novel by DAPHNE DU MAURIER adapted by ARCHIE CAMPBELL with Hugh Burden
Beatrix Lehmann , Eva Stuart
The year 1956. The action occurs in Le Mans and in and around the Chateau de St Gilles. A chance encounter at a French railway station leads an English tourist into assuming the presence and personality of an enigmatic stranger.
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
THE VERY REV EDWARD PATEI , ROYDEN HARRISON and JOHN COHEN exchange ideas with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICIIAEL GREEN (from Manchester)
The Litany, sung to the music Of THOMAS TALLIS
preceded by Weather
