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
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
J. W. M. TROMPSON reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by BRIAN EMPRINGHAM
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with GEORGE GARDINER
Narrator DOUGLAS SMITH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
WALTER WALLICH , MARTIN COX
New Every Morning page 93; Love. how deep, how broad (BBC Hymn Book 73): Psalm 16: Matthew 9. vv 27-38 (RSV); Love, unto thine own who earnest (BBC He 523)
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
Featuring the start of the new League Football season in England: news too of the Scottish League Cup, Racing, and Cricket including the Fifth Test. Producer BOB BURROWS
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
(Don Revie 's guide: pp 42-44)
Challenge Match
The three finalists from this year's contest:
AUBREY LAWRENCE , STEWART CROW ROBERT ECCLES v a team of writers:
DENNIS WHEATLEY
MAURICE EDELMAN , MP GLYN JONES
Chairman IAN GILLIES
Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
(Book, 35p: see page 47)
12.55 Weather; programme news
A spontaneous discussion by Lady Barnett Vic Feather , Patrick Moore Chairman David Jacobs from Hull, Yorkshire
Introduced by Judith Chalmers Travelling Alone: OLIVE SHAPLEY has recently been round the world
What the European papers say. Memories of a Miner: JIM BULLOCK talks to TONY VAN DEN
BERGH
What's New in the Shops: Alice HOPE reports
Out for the Day: DEREK JONES goes on a nature walk in South Devon
EILEEN BARRY reads Rain Before Seven by ROMA GROVER
(Fifth of six instalments)
looks at three American comediennes: Barbra Streisand in What's Up Doc?
Elaine May in A New Leaf and Barbara Harris in Plaza Suite
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
The game that turns the pages of showbiz history with Dame Flora Robson
Arthur Askey , Billy Milton Pete Murray
Chairman Jack Watson Programme devised and compiled by DENIS GIFFORD Producer JOHN DYAS
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.
Kate and Emma by MONICA DICKENS adapted for radio by JILL HYEM with Angela Down and Marian Diamond
' I was afraid me and Bob had messed it up good and proper, and all I'd hear of her would be a demand note for 50 quid. But being Em and me, we came together again like the bits of mercury when I used to break thermometers up at the nursing home.' The second play: Nightmares
Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
Mary Martin
Her story is a story of the theatre and of its major triumphs during the last 20 years: South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Hello Dolly and many others. MARY MARTIN , now in retirement on her farm in Brazil, looks back on her career, her association with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein , and, in particular, the songs she sang. Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 9.5 am)
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV JAMES DEY
preceded by Weather
