Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
7.10 On Your Farm
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Michael Aspel and the Weekend Today team join the Bank Holiday getaway brigade in a 70-minute special direct from Gibraltar.
7.50 Travel news and What's on in Britain
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today from Gibraltar including, from London, at 8.30* Sportsdesk; at 8.40* Today's Papers
Michael Aspel 's Choice: page 5
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Talking Politics
Leading politicians talk to ANTHONY KING about themselves and their lives in and away from politics.
4: RT HON REGINALD PRENTICE , MP
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
COLIN VALDAN reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by STUART FORSYTH Narrator ROY WILLIAMSON Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE ANNE SLOMAN , BERNARD TATE
NEM p 54: Give to our God (BBC HB 6); Psalm 25, vv 1-10; Acts 27, v 35, to 28, v 2 (NEB); Praise, my soul (BBC HB 15)
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
The Big Kick-Off: news and prospects on the first day of the Football League season.
Also: Third Test-England v West Indies; International Athletics - Gt Britain v Hungary; County Cricket; Rugby League; Racing from Goodwood.
(Sport on 2: from 2.2 pm) Cover story: pages 52-55
Presented by Roger Cook
Country Style: in which a glum farmer tells JEANINE MCMULLEN what's gone wrong with the harvest; REG DADE talks about 23 years as a water bailiff; GEOFFREY PALMER reports on harvest festivals; and ROGER COOK puts his all on a horse.
A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services stationed in West Germany and Gibraltar.
Panel: NAN WINTON, TED MOULT, NEIL DURDEN-SMITH v 28th Signal Regiment, Krefeld, West Germany: TOM BROWN, TED MCKIE, BARRY GROVES, PHIL SHARMAN
Questionmaster ALUN WILLIAMS
Questions set, devised and produced by MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
(By arrangement with BFBS)
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news
I ujanna be an all-round entertainer. The Tommy Steele story told by FRANK DIXON
Producer HERBERT SMITH
Joyce Grenfell : Mon, 11.5 am
Introduced by Anne Gregg The week in Woman's Hour
What the European papers say.
The Great British Public: PAMELA howe meets those who have to deal with it.
Mammon's Mile - 1: FRANCES CAIRN CROSS and HAMISH MCRAE examine our financial institutions.
Wrap It Up! -2: GORDON SNELL 'S critical look at packaging. He Was Asking After You by MARGERY ALLINGHAM abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS Read by Carleton Hobbs
A play by Clifford Terence
with Rolf Lefebvre and Mary Wimbush
"To be fair one must first be clear. There can be no discipline and no authority, and no justice for the boys either, unless the rules are clear and the rules are kept."
Introduced by John Dunn
Adventures of the Incredible Dr McLoon by BRIAN THOMPSON 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. Today actress Beryl Reid and tv producer David Rose answer your telephoned questions. Presenter MAUREEN STAFFER Producer DAVID SHUTE
Dial a Scientist again: 6 Oct.
4.30 The Hawks and the Doves A thriller series for the young and fearless: written for radio by PAT and DEREK HODDINOTT
1: Operation: Power Struggle
While in Britain, an attempt is made to assassinate Dr Damone. President of Retambo, a Pacific island. As a result, the Doves fly to Retambo to weed out an underground organisation intent on returning the country to a Dictatorship.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY Editor GRAHAM GAULD
A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. Introduced by Peter France Producers MIRIAM RAPP
JOY HATWOOD, ALAN HAYDOCK
MICHAEL BRIGHT, ROSEMARY HART
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.
Bert Foord, weatherman, 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)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
Expensive Toys Left Out in the Rain by CHRISTINE EADE with Robert Beatty , Bonnie Hurren and Trader Faulkner
' When you Americans left you left us a lot of expensive toys we were too young to play with - and we've left them out in the rain and tried to repair them with rubber bands and chewing gum. So nothing works as it was meant to any more ..."
The place: Mindanao in the Philippines. The events and the characters are fictitious.
With PETER CRAZE, SAM DASTOR Guitarist GEORGE ELLIOTT Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm) Exotic experience: page 5
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Nixon's Watergate speech, 1973
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
The speech that President Nixon had hoped would sink the Watergate scandal once and for all fails to hit its target, according to polling.
Rita Hunter plays some of her favourite records and explains why they give her particular pleasure.
(Repeated: Thursday, 11.5 am)
led by JOHN STUART ROBERTS
preceded by Weather