6.32 Farming Today presented by BRYAN PLATT
6.50 Outlook
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
VHF: Regional news, weather
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 8.30* Sportsdesk with CRAWFORD WHITE, Daily Express, on the Fifth Test in Bombay; at 8.45 Today's Papers
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New Every Morning page 102; 0 dearest Lord (BBC Hymn Book 266); Psalm 34. vv 11-22; John 8. vv 46-59 (AV); He wants not friends (BBC iib 245)
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Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
Featuring League football in England and Scotland; Racing; Rugby Union, Rugby League; report from Bombay on the fourth day of play in the Fifth Test between India and England. Producer BOB BURROWS (Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
Presenter Jeanine McMullen You and Your Time
Cinderella in the Kitchen. DEREK COOPER looks at conditions in the catering industry.
A general knowledge contest
Chairman Robert Robinson 1: London
SHELAGH WOODHOUSE: interviewer
MRS MARILYN WIGODER -HALBERSTAN: lawyer
MRS NORMA SIMMONS : housewife MARTYN CORBETT : schoolmaster Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Soper, Patrick Moore
David Hunt. Marjorie Proops Chairman David Jacobs from Avonmouth. Bristol
2.0 Afternoon Theatre medium wave Counter Plot by ELIZABETH BATT with Noël Hood Rose Wilmott , faced with money troubles, had to take a job. But she was gentle, vague and easily flustered-not really the ideal sales assistant for a busy store ... With JUDITH FELLOWES Producer BETTY DAVIES
3.0 Weekend Woman's Hour medium wave Introduced by Judith Chalmers Things that go bump in the night-or do they?: FRANK HENNIG and friends go ghost-hunting at Shripney Manor, in Sussex. What the European papers say. Entertainment Round-up: by JUDITH CHALMERS The Way We Talk: STANLEY ELLIS of Leeds University and JOHN WIDDOWSON of Sheffield University discuss differences in dialect with SHEILA YEADON ' The Car We Had to Push from The Thurber Carnival by JAMES THURBER : abridged and read by BLAIN FAIRMAN
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4th Dimension medium wave Martin Muncaster introduces the Saturday show for young listeners Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN With NIGEL LAMBERT , PAT KEEN and GARARD GREEN
4.5 Dial a Scientist Puzzled by unanswered questions from the world of science? Then send them on a postcard giving your name. age and telephone number to: 4th Dimension. BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW. This week Dr Chris Evans. a psychologist, joins regulars Patrick Moore and Professor Eric Laithwaite who have answers to just about anything. In the chair Paddy Feeny Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
4.30 The Wouldbegoods The book by E. NESBIT abridged and read in six parts by DAVID DAVIS
1: The Society for Being Good In. This is another story of the Bastable children. After a bad escapade they are packed off to the country and form themselves into a society called The Wouldbegoods - meaning they would if they could, which even they thought unlikely! Producer GLYN DEARMAN
4.50 The 3-Way Miracle Making a pop record 1: Song Writing featuring Colin Blunstone. Introduced by PETER POWELL Producer ROBERT A. HOPTON Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words, spoken by their descendants. 20: Poverty and Progress High Victorian Britain
Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Theo Barker. Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Kent.
(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 ROGER MACDONALD
Richard Baker introduces a weekly sequence of favourite music chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists.
Beaker's Field by PHILIP BARKER
' Flying's been used for the first time. rightly or wrongly. as an instrument of war - but its potential, its real value has nothing to do with war. Just the opposite ... '
Producer ROGER pine
(Repeated: Monday. 3.0 pm)
A late-evening conversation in Which GEORGE FFITCH , FRANK FIELD and ANGUS MAUDE , UP, exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON (from Manchester)
Evening Prayers conducted by JOHN STUART ROBERTS
A topical view of the cinema featuring the stars, the new films and the people who make them: including
Burt Lancaster , who stars in Robert Aldrich's Ulzana's Raid, and a look at Eli'is on Tour. Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
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