6.32 Farming Today presented by BRYAN PLATT
6.50 Outlook: matters of Christian interest and concern
VHF: Regional news, weather
7.10 On Your Farm
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 70-minute worldwide look at the weekend
7.50 Travel news and What's on VHF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.20 TROMPETTO on food; at 8.30* Sportsdesk; at
8.45 Today's Papers; at 8.59 Weekend weather
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
GERARD EVANS reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by ROY WILLIAMSON
9.45 Talking Politics
ANTHONY KING discusses Select Committees of the House of Commons with the Chairman and members of one of them and the witnesses who appeared before it.
Narrator STUART FORSYTH Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX and ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning, page 29; Light's glittering morn (BBC Hymn Book 107); Psalm 114; Matthew 24, vv 29-44 (RSV); Forth in thy name. 0 Lord (BBC HB 406)
medium wave
Introduced by PETER JONES
Featuring League football in England and Scotland: Racing: Rugby Union and Rugby League Producer BOB BURROWS
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
Presenter Jeanine McMullen You and Your Time
JEANINE MCMULLEN copes with the moulting season; DEREK COOPER considers take-home-food: and - is the cinema becoming less sexy?
And, of course, your letters. (Radio People: page 5)
A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services stationed in Hong Kong, Masirah and Can.
Panel: Nan Winton, Ted Moult, Neil Durden-Smith
v RAF Gan (first team): Steve Oakley, Norman Thomas, Peter Parry Williams, Colin Smith
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
VHF: Regional news, weather
A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Richard Marsh Russell Braddon
Ludovic Kennedy , Beryl Grey Chairman David Jacobs from Birmingham
medium wave
Introduced by Judith Chalmers Small Jobs in the Garden: seasonal tips from GEOFF AMOS. Double Act: ANNI ET JIM talk to NORMAN TOZER about their careers as actors and cooks
What the European papers say. Poetry on a Theme: VALERIE JENKINS chooses three poems on Love and Marriage
See How They Run?: NIGEL MURPHY investigates the growing menace of super-mice
'An Old Maid's Story ' from Tales of the West Riding by PHYLLIS BENTLEY abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN read by ANN MORRISH
John Dunn. the Radio Personality of the Year, introduces the new Saturday show for young listeners.
Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN The extraordinary adventures of Captain Radio and his glamorous assistant Passion-flower versus the wicked Krakov: with NIGEL LAMBERT PAT KEEN and GARARD GREEN Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
4.5 Forecast!
A radio quiz game devised by IAN MESSITER
Host Tony Blackburn
Special guest Bernard Cribbins with some Scouts and Guides Producer RICHARD WILLCOX
4.30 Shadow of the Pharaoh
A thriller play in six episodes set in Ancient Egypt written by VICTOR PEMBERTON and DAVID SPENSER
1: Into the Shadow
Other parts KATHERINE PARR and WILLIAM EEDLE
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
TOBY SHELLEY , winner of the Choose the Title Competition, talks to JOHN DUNN
Editor GRAHAM GAULD
(' Kids have a curiously uncluttered view ... ': page 3)
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain based upon their own words, spoken by their descendants. 1: Green Land, Red Bricks
Britons. Romans, beginnings Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON under the direction of Professor Barry Cunliffe. Producer for the voices of the People CHARLES PARKER
Central consultants ASA BRIGGS , Vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex: GWYN WILLIAMS, Professor of History, University of York
Special music, sound composition and orchestration by DAVID CAIN , assisted by NORMAN MCLEOD THE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT directed by DAVID MUNROW
Readers ANTHONY HALL
TREVOR MARTIN , NIGEL LAMBERT Commentary BARRY CUNLIFFE JACQUETTA HAWKES. ANNE ROSS and MICHAEL DRAKE
(First of 26 programmes)
(Michael Mason 's Choice: p 5)
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
by ALISTAIR COOKE N (Rptd: 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.
Hopjoy was Here by COLIN WATSON : adapted for radio by MATTHEW WALTERS with Peter Jeffrey and Dinsdale Landen
Hopjoy is missing, and there's acid in the bath. Inspector Purbright of the Flaxborough CID begins a routine investigation. But then national security is mentioned - and half a pig disappears. ' Its a marvellous case,' says Mr Warlock.
Producer COLIN TUCKER
(Repeated: Monday. 3.0 pm)
(Dinsdale Landen is in ' London Assurance ' at the New Theatre. London)
9.58 Weather
A late-evening conversation in Which PROFESSOR H. C. LONGUET -HIGGINS, EDWARD BLISHEN , and MARY MIDGLEY exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)
Family Prayers conducted by THE REV DOUGLAS AITKEN With JEAN KELTIE
A topical view of the cinema featuring the stars, the new films and the men who make them.
This week: Joseph Losey
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by MARJORIE BILBOW Producer BOBBY JAYE
preceded by Weather
