6.27 Farming Week: presented from the North by KENNETH FORD
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Robert Robinson and Douglas Cameron
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.1 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 News and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES )
8.40 Today's Papers
Last seen in the BBC Sound Archives investigating manifestations of the little people. (His Kind of Music: Tuesday)
Lance Percival , Zena Skinner Katharine Whitehorn Fritz Spiegl and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
NEM p 54: Come, Holy Ghost (BBC HB 508); Psalm 36; Matthew 5, vv 17-26 (rsv); Father, in whom we live (BBC HB 166)
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor KENNETH ALWYN
Music by Borodin and Britten MICHAEL WAKEHAM (baritone) MARTIN GOLDSTEIN (piano) British ballads
Introduced by STUART FORSYTH Producer BARRY KNIGHT
by ALAN GARNER : abridged in five parts by DAVID MAHLOWE Read by Geoffrey Banks
The best kind of magic appears when it's least suspected.... when an ordinary day suddenly becomes strange, wonderful, terrible, just as it does for Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David as they go exploring the back streets of Manchester.
1: Thursday's Child
Producer HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)
(Radio Times People: page 5)
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. your Money - earning, saving and spending it
...and thus avoid the need for further action: NIGEL MURPHY investigates the debt collectors
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA)
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: A Summer Storm by WINIFRED DORAN
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON Including music by Oscar Straus , Elgar and Sullivan
MADGE STEPHENS singing German and American songs with WILFRID PARRY (piano) Producer ALAN OWEN
by TERENCE RATTICAN is today's Afternoon Theatre (Saturday-Night Theatre)
Knight Crusader by RONALD WELCH
Read by JOHN JUSTIN 6: Damascus
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams
PM's reporting team
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.6 Regional news, weather and programme news
Written and adapted for radio from their television series by Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps. The Bishop Takes a Holiday.
This week's guest
Doris Hare as Mrs Shoebridge Producer David Hatch
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
DAPHNE DU MAURIER 's novel abridged in eight parts by GORDON GOW
Read by JILL BALCON 3: The West Wing
' Sometimes, when I walk along the corridor here, I fancv I hear her just behind me. That quick, light footstep ...' Producer PAMELA howi (from Bristol)
A not-particularly-solemn quiz in which Ned Sherrin puts literary questions to literary people. This week:
Eleanor Bron , John Gross David Benedictns
Questions compiled by BARRY CARMAN and GORDON SNELL Producer ALAN JONES
(BBC World Service production)
by John Fowles adapted for radio by David Parker
with Judi Dench as Miranda and Nigel Anthony as Clegg
Based on the author's well-known novel, the play is concerned with the obsessional behaviour of a young man who has been an office clerk. He wins a fortune on the Pools and turns from his hobby of collecting butterflies to collecting a girl art student.
(My Choice, by John Fowles: p 5)
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
The Eustace Diamonds by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Read by GERALDINE MCEWAN (13)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
