6.32 Farming Today
6.50 Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
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; and at
8.50 The M4 Waterway:
Malcolm Billings starts a five-part journey from Bath to Reading along the Kennet and Avon Canal
Producer JOANNA HICKSON
The life outside London: page 5
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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.
5: LORD CARRINGTON
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World j. w. M. THOMPSON reviews what the weeklies have to say with illustrations read by STUART FORSYTH
Narrator BRYAN MARTIN
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE, ANNE SLOMAN , BERNARD TATE
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New Every Morning p 76: How are thy servants blest, 0 Lord! (BBC HB 305); Psalm 67; St Mark 3. vv 22-35 (av); 0 help us. Lord (BBC HB 336)
NANCY WISE'S personal selection Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Producer JOHN KNIGHT
11.30 Announcements
medium wave only
Introduced by ALAN PARRY
Featuring the Gillette Cup Final at Lord's; World Cycling Championships from Barcelona; prospects for the day's football in England and Scotland; Racing from Kempton Park; Rugby Union from Twickenham; Rugby League; Golf. (Sport on 2: from 2.2 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook
You and Your Time. Leisure Gardens? AUDREY KAYE on the role of allotments in 1973.
Panel: Nan Winton, Ted Moult, Neil Durden-Smith v. RAF Gutersloh, West Germany: Richard Gilbert, Vic Carter, Pat Rowley-Brooke, Alan Brown.
Questionmaster Alun Williams
Questions set devised and produced by Michael Tuke-Hastings
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news
Ken Dodd: you know the singer; you roar at the comic. But are you ready for a lesson from the Professor Extraordinary of the theory and history of humour? And have you met the man behind the comedian? Arranged and presented by Frank Dixon
Introduced by Anne Gregg The week in Woman's Hour. What the European papers say. Entertainment Round-up: GORDON GOW
Small Jobs in the Garden: seasonal tips from GEOFF AMOS
Mammon's Mile: FRANCES cairn-, CROSS and HAMISH MCRAE examine our financial institutions. The Perfect Butler by MARGERY ALLINGHAM abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS Read by Carleton Hobbs
The Lame Duck by MICHAEL LAWRENCE with John Stride as John Bell
' Improving the image of ducks is no more ridiculous than trying to convince people that X's petrol will improve their performance in bed. We know it won't, but the satisfaction of the job lies in exercises like that.'
Producer HARRY CATLIN
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 Use Your Wits
The nationwide word-game contest devised by TONY SHRYANE compiled by PETER MOORE
6: Glasgow (Knightswood Secondary School); SUSAN LESLIE and MYRA BELL challenge
ALEXANDER ANDERSON and THOMAS MCTURK. Chairman TOM COYNE
4.20 Mystery Voices
Competition: BARBARA MCDONALD gives the answers and names the prize-winners.
4.30 The Hawks and the Doves A thriller series for the young and fearless: written for radio by PAT and DEREK HODDINOTT
2: Operation: the mad bomber Britain's power stations are threatened with destruction. It's blackmail on a grand scale. The unravelling of the mystery makes the Doves believe they are living through some bizarre nightmare.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Out today! 4D's own annual: a BBC publication, SOp (page 61)
A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. Introduced by Brian J. Ford Producers
JOY HATWOOD, ALAN HAYDOCK
MICHAEL BRIGHT, ROSEMARY HART
5.55
Weather, programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday, 9.15 am) Transatlantic talking: page 4
A nationwide look at the stories behind the day's sporting headlines.
Earl Wild, virtuoso pianist, 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)
Nigel Davenport in The Rise and Fall of Liberty Wilkes by BALFOUR BARWISE adapted by KAY PATRICK
Reformer. libertine and wit. to George III he was ' that Devil, Wilkes ': to his supporters, the defender of the rights and liberties of ordinary men.
Lord Sandwich GARARD GREEN King George III. WILLIAM SLEIGH
Producer MARGARET ETALL
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)
talks about
Another Time of My Life
1933-1941: In these years, starting as a messenger boy, the writer-producer of Radio Rhythm Club, Journey into Space, Oh! What a Lovely War and many musical documentary features began to develop his own broadcasting style while working for and with some of the pioneers of radio in its formative years.
(Illustrated with recordings from the Sound Archives) Producer SHEILA ANDERSON
(Repeated: Thursday. 11.5 am) Charles Chilton 's new series ' Sing of America ': Thurs, 7.30
The evening office of Compline
preceded by Weather
