6.32 Farming Today presented by BRYAN PLATT
S.50 Outlook
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
VHF: Regional news, weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.111 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Producer ANTHONY PARKIN i from Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 60-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 Papers
8.59 Weather
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
ANTHONY KING reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by ROY WILLIAMSON
9.45 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with TERENCE LANCASTER
Narrator BRIAN HUDSON
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX. BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning, p 29; I'm not ashamed to own my Lord (BBC Hymn Book 494): Psalm 57: Genesis 3, vv 6-19 (av); Jesus lives! thy terrors now (BBC HB 106)
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
11.30 Announcements
Introduced by DESMOND tYNAM
Featuring League football in England and Scotland: Racing; Rugby Union and Rugby League Producer BOB BUHROWS
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
Presenter John Edmunds You and Your Time
The proper way to spend a day: NOEL ILIFF selects some gems from Mrs Beeton 's Household Management, first published in 1862 With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland Questionmasters
JOHN ELLISON and TIM GUDGIN First Round
:3: West of England
BEECHEN CLIFF SCHOOL. Bath v NEWTON ABBOT GRAMMAR SCHOOL Questions set by ROY SMITH Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
A spontaneous discussion by John Arlott , Sir Jack Longland
Baroness Stocks Sir Edwin Leather
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Winchester
Listeners' views for use in Any Answersf should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
The Old Broom by GEORGE SHIELS with Harold Goldblatt as Ben Broom ' I'll give you a little advice. Let nothing human stand in your way. Never be content with a shaving less than your pound of flesh.'
Producer DENYS HAWTHORNE (from Northern Ireland)
Introduced by Judith Chalmers
Family Footsteps: Bill Cotton, son of the late bandleader Billy Cotton, talks to Anne Catchpole about the pros and cons of following his father into the world of entertainment.
What's New for the Home: Jennifer Stone reports
Finding a New Home: Iris Strong-Wright had problems after her mother died
What the European papers say. Inland Spas: Teresa McGonagle takes a weekend at Llandrindod WellsÂ
Alexander John reads It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot
(Third of nine instalments)
(Alexander John is in 'Canterbury Tales' at the Phoenix Theatre. London)
John Dunn introduces the new Saturday show for young listeners.
Rex Radio by Alexander Guyan
Captain Radio and Passion-flower tangle again with Krakov, the most wicked man in the world with Nigel Lambert, Pat Keen and Garard Green
Producer Elizabeth Ornbo
4.5 Animals Unlimited introduced by Phil Drabble
Why do bats make sounds so high-pitched that human beings can normally hear them? Our pet this week is the gerbil. Our prehistoric animals range from mammoths to mini-elephants. Producer Dilys Breese
4.30 Shadow of the Pharaoh
A thriller play in six episodes set in Ancient Egypt written by Victor Pemberton and David Spenser
6: Out of the Shadow
Play produced and programme edited by Graham Gauld
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words, spoken by their descendants.
6: Ploughmen
The medieval peasant
Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON under the direction of Barrie Dobson , Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York.
(A series of 26 programmes)
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday. 9.15 am)
A nationwide look at the stories behind the day's sporting headlines. Producer GODFREY DIXEY
Richard Baker introduces records of favourite music
by R.C. Sherriff and Jeanne De Casalis, adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins
with Lee Montague as Napoleon
and Peter Egan, Michael Spice, Maurice Good
In December 1815 the British imprisoned Napoleon on St Helena. The play traces the long slow decline of the caged tiger until his death in May 1821.
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
V.S. Naipaul, Peter France and Professor Graeme Moodie exchange ideas with Brian Redhead
(from Manchester)
The evening office of Compline
A topical view of the cinema featuring the stars, the new films and the people who make them: including Jim Dale on the set of National Health and bestselling author of Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by MARJORIE BILBOW Producer BOBBY JAYE
preceded by Weather
