6.32 Farming Today: BRYAN CLATT
6.50 medium wave Outlook
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
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 medium wave Travel news and What's on 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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9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
NORMAN HUNT reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by BRYAN MARTIN
9.45 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with TERENCE LANCASTER
Narrator MARTIN MUNCASTER Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE
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New Every Morning p 64; New every morning is the love (BBC Hymn Book 408); Psalm 112: Isaiah 62, vv 1-7 and 10-12 (RSV); Believe not those who say (BBC HB 317)
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11.30 medwa ve Announcements
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Introduced by DESMOND I.YNAM
Featuring League football in England and Scotland; Racing; Rugby Union; Rugby League. Producer BOB BURROWS
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
Presenter Nigel Murphy You and Your Time
A Flutter on the Horses - or an obsessive need to win? What makes some people compulsive gamblers, running up huge debts, risking their marriages and possibly losing their jobs? NANCY WISE investigates.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
Chairman ROBERT ROBINSON 9: Scotland (ii
MRS RUTH ENDREDY (Dumfries) HUGH FRASE (Edinburgh) civil servant
DAVID DEMPSEY (Kirkcaldy) civil servant
WILLIAM MCCART (Kilmarnock) librarian
Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
(Paperback, 35p: see page 63)
12.55 medium wave Weather, programme news
A spontaneous discussion by Steve Race , Campbell Adamson Rt Hon Richard Marsh Jill Tweedie
Chairman David Jacobs from Bristol
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Rhodes of Dorley by NORMAN CLARE
' It's a family store, nice size, unbelievably inefficient ... and in a fast developing area, which to me spells massive potential. In effect it's a take-over, but we're keeping everybody happy by calling it a merger.'
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (from Leeds)
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Introduced by Judith Chalmers
The Week in Woman's Hour: some highlights
What the European papers say.
Scullery Maid in the 20s: ELLEN BOWLER talks to MORGAN CROSS
Air Letter from the Seychelles: JOAN PYPER
Leaving the Nest: DR ANN DALLY and MARGARET PUTNAM on when children should leave home.
The Basket Chair by WINSTON GRAHAM abridged by HILDA SCHRODER Read by JOHN BRYNING
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John's back! John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners
Adventures of the Incredible Dr McLoon
The new cartoon series written by BRIAN THOMPSON about the ace inventor and international genius: with JOHN FRANKLYN -ROBBINS and CAROLE HAYMAN. Producer TONY CLIFF
4.5 Dial Your Career
Telephone the experts for advice on all kinds of careers. Bruce Cousins, a BEA pilot, and Vicki Hodge , a fashion model, answer your questions. Presenter Maureen Staffer Producer DAVID SHUTE
Next month (5 May) the guest will be a heart surgeon. Send your question for him on a postcard giving your name, age and telephone number to: 4th Dimension, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
4.30 Kick Off by NOEL STREATFEILD: a six-part serial about a young Northern footballer and his family. 3: A Setback
Producer TREVOR HILL Editor GRAHAM GAULD
A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. People, ideas and events in the world of arts and sciences.
Introduced by Robert Hewlson whn says:
Producers ROSEMARY hart
ALAN HAYDOCK , MICHAEL BRIGHT
(Kaleidoscope can be heard at
10.30 pm Monday-Friday)
5.55 medium wave Weather, programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday. 9.15 am)
A nationwide look at Ihe stories behind the days 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.
The Depression of Edward Loos by ERIC B. MADDISH with Brian Wilde and Leonard Fenton
' Edward Loos Investigations Limited ' is a small private detective agency that has fallen on hard times No sooner has its owner decided to close down than he is approached by a client with an unusual and interesting proposition.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
A late-evening conversation in Which STANLEY ELLIS. STUART HALL and MAURICE TEMPLE SMITH exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)
The Litany sung to the music of Thomas Tallis
preceded by Weather