6.32 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS
6.50
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
Travel news and What's on 7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.30* Sportsdesk; at 8.40* Today's Papers
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ROBERT CARVEL
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
ANDREW SINCLAIR reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by MARTIN UUNCASTER
Narrator BRYAN MARTIN Producers
PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATI
New Every Morning p 54; My God, my King, thy various praise (BBC Hymn Book 13); Psalm 107. vv 31-42; Acts 16, v 32, to 17. v 3 (NEB); Happy are they (BBC HB 274)
11.30 Announcements
Introduced by CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS
Latest news and prospects of a big afternoon's sport, including Athletics. Racing. Lawn Tennis. Cricket, including the Benson and Hedges Cup Final. Producer RICHARD MADDOCK (Sport on 2: from 2.2 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook You and Your Time
The Way There - and Back: FRANCES BERTHEI. SEN finds OUt about the making of maps and their future.
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 Semi-final (i)
HUGH STEWART (Bucks) actuary
DONALD BOYDELL (Surrey)
National Coal Board official JOHN SYKES (Berks) lexicographer
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
A spontaneous discussion by Sir Jack Longland
Lady Barnett. Paul Foot Sir Cyril Kleinwort
Chairman David Jacobs from Buxton. Derbyshire
Weekend Woman's Hour visits Ghana - the West African State where women hold the purse strings and family ties are binding. Home of the highlife. the cocoa bean, the Volta Dam, ancient forts and castles, fetish priests and modern hospitals.
DAVID MARCH reads Auntie Mame by PATRICK DENNIS (3)
Compiled and presented by WYN KNOWLES and ANNE HOWELLS
At Your Service by CARL AMERY : translated from the German by MICHAEL BULLOCK with Patrick Troughton
Martin Jarvis , Timothy Bateson An East German border-guard escapes to West Berlin. The authorities want to know why.
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners
Adventures of the Incredible Dr McLoon
by BRIAN THOMPSON
With John Franklyn-Robbins and Fiona Walker
Producer TONY CLIFF
4.5 Focus
Sarah Forbes and her 4th Dimension team look at new films, plays and music especially for you.
Producer BOBBY JAYE
4.25 Things to Do
JANICE DICKERSON finds out how you can help when anyone's hurt.
Producer JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH
4.30 White Rose and Wanderer
The book by MOLLY HOLDEN abridged by Virginia Browne-WIlkinson
Read by JUNE BARRIE
2: Horseman and Servant
Producer PAMELA HOWE
4.59 They Live in a Faraway Land: 2: The Middle East
From Beirut David McNeil reports on the daily lives of Arab boys and girls.
A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. Introduced by Gillian Strickland Producers
MICHAEL BRIGHT, ROSEMARY HART JOY HATWOOD, LOUISE PURSLOW
5.55
Weather, programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday, 9.15 am)
A nationwide look at the stories behind the day's sporting headlines. Producer ROGER MACDONALD
Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island.
(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker introduces a weekly sequence of favourite music chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists.
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
The novel by Maurice Edelman, MP adapted for radio by David Geary with Rosemary Leach as Elizabeth Melville and Nigel Graham as Geoffrey Melville, a young MP with a promising future. After one unguarded moment Geoffrey suddenly finds himself facing both a public and a private crisis.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING (Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)
New light on the Thompson-Bywaters case
Should Edith Thompson have been hanged, along with her lover Frederick Bywaters, for the stabbing of her husband Percy Thompson? Her sister, now in her 70s and silent since the trial 50 years ago, now comes out with her belief in her innocence, and with some facts about Percy Thompson.
Was Edith Thompson hanged not for the knife assault but for attempts at poisoning? Professor Donald Teare, consultant pathologist, puts forward his interpretation of the forensic reports of the time.
Beverley Nichols, then a young reporter covering his first Old Bailey murder trial, explains what made this case so sensational.
Research SYLVIA MARGOLIS
Presented by FENTON BRESLER Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
A Pin to See the Peepshow: Thur.8 30 pm, BBC2. A deadly affair: cover story, pages 6-7
in words and music based on the work of John Donne led by REV STEWART LAMONT
preceded by Weather
