4.32 Farming Today presented by BRYAN PLATT
6.50 Outlook
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
VHF: Regional news, weather
6.55 Weather, 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
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; at 8.45 Today's Papers
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New Every Morning page 83; Before the almighty Father's throne (BBC HB 452); Psalm 119, part 6; John 15, vv 1-16 (AV); Lord, thy word abideth (BBC HB 190)
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NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
11.30 med wave Announcements
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Introduced by PETER JONES
Featuring League football in England and Scotland; Racing; Rugby Union, Rugby League. Producer BOB BURROWS
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
Presenter John Edmunds You and Your Time
Home-grown Honey? NIGEL MURPHY on the joys, tribulations, costs and profits of keeping bees.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman ROBERT ROBINSON 5: Midlands (i)
KITTY BLACK (Norfolk) translator
DAVID PHILO (Leicestershire) schoolmaster
LIONEL KING (Birmingham) lecturer
MRS ANGELA BUNTING (Derby)
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)
(Paperback. 35p: see page 63)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Enoch Powell. mp Lord Willis, Robin Ray Juliet Mitchell
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Rowton Castle, Shropshire
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Introduced by Judith Chalmers Entertainment Round-up: by JUDITH CHALMERS
What the European papers say. City of Nightingales and Roses: PEGGY CAIRD paints a picture of Shiraz, in Iran.
Of Future Concern: what kind of Church? RT REV KENNETH WOOLLCOMBE , Bishop of Oxford, in discussion with a young curate, RICHARD SYMS: VALERIE JENKINS in the chair. Heaven Lies About Us from the autobiography of BOWARD SPRING abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE read by GLYN OWEN
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Martin Muncaster introduces the Saturday show for young listeners
Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN With NIGEL LAMBERT , PAT KEEN and GARARD GREEN
Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
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 WIA 4WW.
This week Cherry Bramwell. a zoologist. joins regulars Patrick Moore and Professor Eric Laithwaite who have answers to just about anything. In the chair Paddy Feeny Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
(Dial a Scientist for Easter: 27 April)
4.30 The Wouldbegoods
The book by E. NESBIT : abridged and read in six parts by DAVID DAVIS
5: The Canterbury Pilgrims Producer GLYN DEARMAN
4.50 Meet ... Valerie Single ton talks to children from a London primary school. Producer ELIZABETH SMITH Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words, spoken by their descendants.
24: Semi-detached: Middle-class Britain between the Wars Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Asa Briggs, Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex.
(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 BOGER MACDONALD
Richard Baker introduces a weekly sequence of favourite music chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists.
Thunder on Sunday: the novel by KAREN CAMPBELL adapted for radio by BETTY DAVIES with Noel Johnson. Rosalind Shanks Duncan Mclntyre , Simon Lack and Tom Watson
Storm damage forces an aeroplane flying from Keflavik to Glasgow to make a forced landing on the remote Scottish island of Ardnabegh ... And there is something sinister about the island ...
' Thunder on Sunday ' composed and played on the guitar by STEVE GAUNA Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
(Noel Johnson is in ' Crown Matrimonial ' at the Hay-market Theatre. London)
A late-evening conversation in Which JOHN LINSIE , ANTHONY QUINTON and ANDREW MACKENZIE exchange thoughts, opinions. ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV FRANK TOPPING With DONALD SWANN
Featuring the stars, the new films and the people who make them: including Jim Dale. Lynn Redgrave and Peter Nichols on the new satirical comedy The National Health. Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer -BOBBY JAYE
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11.45 Inshore waters forecast
