27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day DR BILLY GRAHAM
A report on Spre-e 73: next Sunday at 7.30 pm
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
6.50
Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk; at 7.35* Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Travel news
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35* Today's Papers
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
by HERMAN WOUK : abridged In 25 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Read by PETER MARINKER 25: The Last Captain
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Astrology - is there anything in it?
Why is astrology so popular today? Is it part of a broader interest in the occult?
With George Scott in the chair. ring Julia Parker , author of The Compleat Astrologer, and Canon Henry Cooper , Rector of St George 's, Bloomsbury. Producer RICHARD GILBERT
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
The programme that minds the consumer's business
Your watchdog Roger Cook Producer ELIZABETH smith
NEM p 72: Father of heaven (BBC hb 290); Psalm 51: St Mark 2, v 23, to 3, v 6 (AV); Just as I am (BBC HB 292)
from Northern Ireland The Long Holidays by MARY LAVIN
Read by Margaret D'Arey
' Who could possibly want another woman's child around the house for three months? And in the dead of summer.' Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Margaret Howard today introduces the series in which listeners ask for advice on personal problems.
Five stories of innocence and experience by PETER FRANC. 4: Gunner
Presenter Joan Yorke You and the Law
Redundant Churches: SUSAN CARR looks into the complications of Ecclesiastical Law.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
PETER JONES in the chair
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Introduced from Bristol by Daphne Hubbard Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Pat Kirkwood and Hubert Gregg : on stage and off stage, together.
Bank Managers: how to get the best out of them. ANNA BARRY reads The Nightingale by RICHARD CHURCH (4)
Story: The Tick Tick Clock by SUSAN JENKINS
Presenters MAUREEN MORRIS and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Scripts by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Selected for Friday
Double Strung by DEREK BOND
' People are very complex, Mary. They can be strong over some things and desperately vulnerable over others. Mrs Seaton is like that. She is a woman who gets totally involved ... '
Producer CHARLES I.EFEAUX
followed by an interlude
1: Colony Days
The Fortnight in September by R. C. SHERRIFF
Read by JOHN ROWE
5: Listen to the Band
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Saturdays broadcast)
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Saturday, 10.30 am)
Extracts from some of the most memorable editions of this popular programme.
Presented by MICHAEL BOWEN (from Bristol)
Marghanita Laski introduces her selection of the poems illustrating Rudyard Kipling 's intoxication with the history of England and his genius in capturing the voice and experience of the ordinary man throughout the centuries.
2: Middle Ages to the Stuarts
Oh. do not tell the Priest our plight
Or he would call it a sin
But - we have been out in the woods all night
A-conjuring summer in Readers GARY WATSON
JOHN ARLOTT , JOHN SAMSON ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY
JOANNA JANE POWELL , BOB COPPER Producer HELEN FRY
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
The Twelfth Mile by E. G. PERRAULT
Read by STEPHEN THORNE (S)
A nightly review of the arts and science
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. Introduced tonight by Peter France. With at
DAVID JASON. BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and bill MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by CHRIS MILLER and COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
Producer SIMON BRETT
(David Jason is in ' No Sex, Please - We're British' at the Strand Theatre, London)
FRITZ SPIEGL ' on tour ' with some friends in the musical world.
5: Off-Dufy
Bridging the gap between flight schedules.
Producer RITCHIE COGAN
preceded by Weather
