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
Radio 4's hour-long look at the week
end raises the curtain on the 1972 Olympic Games: the prospects and the personalities live from the stadium where the headlines will be made. Introduced by Michael Aspel in London with Desmond Lynam in Munich Today's Papers at 8.45
(Olympic People: pages 4-5)
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
ANDREW SINCLAIR reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by BRYAN MARTIN
9.45 Talking Politics
ANTHONY KING discusses Parliamentary Debates - their style and their purpose - with sir GEOFFREY HOWE , MP. Solicitor-General, MICHAEL FOOT , mp, and THE RT HON JEREMY THORPE , MP
Narrator DOUGLAS SMITH Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX , ANNE SLOMAN
NEM p 33; The Church of God a kingdom is (BBC HB 183); Canticle 12; Matthew 13, w 24-35 (RSV); Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30)
Recollections by H. Colin Davis of the childhood he and his brother David Davis spent in Worcestershire at the beginning of the century.
Narrated by H. COLIN DAVIS with readings by DAVID DAVIS who also plays the piano Producer GRAHAM GAULD
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A Night at the London Palladium With PETER REEVES
PAT WHITMORE and BENNY LEE
MUSIC HALL SINGERS directed by CHARLES YOUNG LONDON STUDIO PLAYERS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by ALFRED RALSTON Chairman Roy Hudd
Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
(Roy Hudd is appearing at the Wellington Pier Theatre. Great Yarmouth)
Introduced by PETER JONES in Munich and CHRISTOPHER MARTIN -JENKINS in London
Previewing the opening of the Olympic Games: League Football in England and Scotland; Racing; Golf; Rugby League: Cricket, including the one-day International between England and Australia at Lord's.
Producers
BOB BURROWS in Munich and ROGER MACDONALD in London (Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
(Colour exclusives on this week's Olympic favourites: pages 6-14)
A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services stationed in Hong Kong, Masirah and Gan.
Panel: Nan Winton, Ted Moult, Neil Durden-Smith
v The Royal Navy, Hong Kong: Peter Hudson, Sandy Butler, Ernie Lord, John Morrison
Questionmaster Alun Williams
Questions set by the producer Michael Tuke-Hastings
(By arrangement with BFBS)
(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
starring
Wilfrid Brambell Harry H. Corbett featuring jo MANNING WILSON With JOHN SAMSON
Is That Your Horse Outsidet
Written and adapted for radio by RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON Producer BOBBY JAYE
Paradise Enow by LEE TORRANCE with Richard O'Callaghan and Peter Pratt
Oh to be free! To throw off the dull routine. Get away to a Pacific island, perhaps, and spend all day painting, picking wild fruits and catching fish ... Paradise?
Producer GLYN DEARMAN
Introduced by Judith Chalmers Portrait of Dieppe - an almost English town: LYN MACDONALD reports on her visit
What the European papers say. A Handicap Shared: MARY REDCLIFFE talks to LAURENCE COTTERELL and his son Jim who was born with spina bifida
Entertainment Round-Up: JUDITH CHALMERS
The Generation Gap Written and read by JAMES MCMANUS
takes a further look at British music-hall comedians in films, including:
Frankie Howerd. Danny La Rue Peter Sellers, Graham Stark and on screen:
OLD MOTHER RILEY, TOMMY TRINDER HARRY SECOMBE and MORECAMBE AND WISE
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
The game that turns the pages of showbiz history: with Peggy Mount. Bernard Cribbins Peter Glaze , Brian Matthew 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.
Carrington VC by DOROTHY CHRISTIE and CAMPBELL CHRISTIE adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Tony Britton. Ann Bell
Alethea Charlton , Ronald Hines Major Carrington is accused of taking money from the Battery safe: of being absent without leave; and of entertaining a WRAC in his quarters. Is he guilty or not?
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
(Tony Britton is in 'Move Over, Mrs Markham ' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London) (Repeated: Monday. 3.0 pm)
Mae West
An affectionate portrait of the siren of the silver screen: her best scenes and best lines recalled by PHILIP JENKINSON Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 9.5 am)
(Philip Jenkinson on This Week's Films: page 19)
Family Prayers conducted by FR WILLIAM ANDERSON with the choir of ST VINCENT 'S COLLEGE, LANGBANK
preceded by Weather
