6.32 Farming Today
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 70-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 Talking Politics
A summer series in which leading politicians talk to ANTHONY KING about themselves and their lives in and away from politics.
3: RT HON ROBERT CARR , MP, Home Secretary
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
COLIN VALDAR reviews what the weeklies have to say with illustrations read by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Narrator BRYAN MARTIN
Producers PADDY O'KEFFFE
ANNE SLOMAN , TOM READ
New Every Morning p 33; All hail the power of Jesus' name (BBC Hymn Book 118); Psalm 20: Acts 25, vv 13-22 (NEB): Rejoice! the Lord is King (BBC HB I28)
11.30 Announcements
Introduced by alan PARRY
Previewing the afternoon's sport, including: Soccer - Watney Cup Final; Racing from Newbury; Show Jumping from Hickstead; County Cricket; Golf; Bowls-; Motor Racing. (Sport on 2: from 2.2 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook
You and Your Time. Looking towards autumn - preparing next year's lawn and what's new in flowering bulbs: JOHN WARREN talks to NIGEL MURPHY. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
Challenge Match
The three finalists from this year's contest
A team from The Navy Lark (Details as Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
A spontaneous discussion by Malcolm Muggeridge Lord Willis
The Countess of Longford Robin Ray
Chairman David Jacobs from Worthing, Sussex
The sound of my voice' p 3
Introduced by Anne Gregg The week in Woman's Hour.
What the European papers say. Knowing Your Place Below Stairs: the hierarchy of domestic service in yesterday's England.
Worth a Detour: PEGGY ARCHER visits the Shell Museum at Buckfastleigh in Devon.
Wrap It Up? - 1: GORDON SNELL takes a critical look at packaging.
Mrs Joseph Porter Over the Way by CHARLES DICKENS abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by CLIFFORD NORGATE
by Keith Miles
with Kerry Francis as Warren J. Keissinger
'He had the flat jaw and sinewy neck which are frequent in the American type; but the traces of national origin are a matter of expression even more than of feature and it was in this respect that our friend's countenance was supremely eloquent.'
(Henry James: The American)
(from Birmingham)
John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners
Adventures of the Incredible Dr McLoon
by BRIAN THOMPSON
with JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS and CAROLE HAYMAN
Producer TONY CLIFF
4.5 Focus
SARAH FORBES and her 4th Dimension team look at films, theatre. books and music especially for you. Producer BOBBY JAYE
4.25 Things to Do
JANICE DICKERSON finds out how you can forecast and record the weather.
Producer JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH
4.30 White Rose and Wanderer
The book by MOLLY HOLDEN abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE-WILKINSON
Read by JUNE BARRIE
6: A West Wind Blowing
Producer PAMELA HOWE
4.50 Meet...
Anthony Buckeridge, author of the Jennings at School books and plays.
Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
Editor GRAHAM GAULD
A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. Introduced by Brian J. Ford.
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
June Whitfield, comedy actress, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she 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)
Action for Slander
The novel by MARY BORDEN adapted for radio by FELIX FELTON with Allan Cuthbertson
William Fox , Carleton Hohbs
A weekend party in a country house: five of the guests sit down to a game of poker when suddenly one of the players. Mr Grant , accuses Major Daviot of cheating.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)
Malcolm Muggeridge last year completed the first part of his autobiography.
In conversation with JONATHAN DIMBLEBY. he reflects on the first 30 years of his life. Producer HELEN FRY
(A programme based on Volume 2: 16 September)
' The sound of my voice ' :p p 3
Evening Prayers conducted by REV STEWART CROSS with a section Of THE NORTHERN SINGERS directed by STEPHEN WILKINSON
preceded by Weather