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 50-minute worldwide look at the weekend, with FRED STREETER in the garden and TROMPETTO in the kitchen.
8.45 Today's Papers
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
HONOR BALFOUR reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by MARTIN MUNCASTER
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with GEORGE GARDINER
Narrator BRYAN MARTIN
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX. BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning page 50; My heart is filled with longing (BBC Hymn Book 525); Psalm 150; Matthew 5. vv 1-16 (rsv); Sing praise to God (BBC HB 18)
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM Producer GEOFF DOBSON
Latest news and prospects of a big afternoon's sport including: Golf - English Amateur Championship and Swiss Open Championship; Racing from Goodwood; Swimming - Eight Nations Competition; Association Football - Watney Cup: County Cricket: Rifle Shooting - The Queen's Prize.
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
Chairman IAN GILLIES Semi-final (iii)
MARY GRUMMITT (Co Down) pensioner
STEWART CROW (Edinburgh) scientist
NIGEL YATES (Carmarthen) assistant archivist
REV JOHN MCCOY (Co Tyrone) Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
Next week, in the Final of the contest, the three people who have won through from the original 56 contestants representing all parts of the United Kingdom compete for the title Brain of Britain 1972
(Book, 35p: see page 51)
12.55 Weather: programme news
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Boothby Malcolm Muggeridge
Rt Hon Barbara Castle , mp Peter Blaker , mp
Chairman David Jacobs Producer Michael BOWEN from Hove, Sussex
Listeners' views for use in Any Answerst should be sent to Any
Answers?, BBC Bristol BS8 2LR
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson Guest: Jean Plaidy
Entertainment Round-Up: JUDITH CHALMERS takes a look at what is happening in the world of entertainment
What the European papers say. Hymns our children sing: discussed by headmistress DAME MARGARET MILES, THE REV COLIN HODGETTS , and a parent, KENNETH JOHN SON
EILEEN BARRY reads Rain Before Seven by ROMA GROVER
(Third of six instalments)
presents
Michael Winner , Britain's most prolific director
I always smile when people speak of my instant and continual success, as if I'd had an easy road, because I assuredly have not
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
The game that turns the pages of showbiz history with Terence Alexander
Bettv Marsden , Lance Percival John Ellison
Chairman Jack Watson
Programme devised and compiled by DENIS GIFFORD Producer JOHN DYAS
5.55 Weather; programme news
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.
The Deep Blue Sea by TERENCE RATTIGAN with Isabel Dean as Hester Collyer
Hester is intense, artistic and loving. Freddie is gregarious. noisy and devil-may-care. They need each other and yet their needs are so different.... Is there any hope for them both to make a life together?
This play, first produced in 1952. has been performed many times since then and in various mediums, and provides splendid acting roles for both the main characters.
Adapted and produced by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
C. B. Cochran
A musical portrait of the great showman, presented by SAM HEPPNER , which includes the voices of C.B. himself and some of the stars associated with him - Richard Rodgers , Jessie Matthews , and Anna Neagle who says: ' Cochran wasn't only a brilliant showman. He was such a human person. He knew us all by name ... When an understudy had to play the part for a principal he'd always write a letter thanking whoever it happened to be. When I had my tonsils out. flowers were sent to the hospital.'
Producer ANNA INSTONE
Evening Prayers conducted by MICHAEL SHOE SMITH with a section of the BIRMINGHAM BACH SOCIETY CHOIR conducted by RICHARD BUTT
All the day's news preceded by Weather
