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; and at 8.50 The primrose path from Bath to Reading ... following in MALCOLM BILLINGS'S footsteps along the Kennet and Avon Canal. Series producer JOANNA HICKSON
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. 6:
RT HON ANTHONY CROSLAND, MP
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
New Every Morning p 11; My God, how wonderful thou art (BBC Hymn Book 12); Psalm 103. vv 1-13; St Mark 9, vv 14-29 (AV); Souls of men, why will ye scatter (BBC HB 20)
11.30 Announcements
Introduced by ALAN PARRY
News and prospects for the day's sport, featuring: Football in England and Scotland; The St Leger at Doncaster; Rugby Union and Rugby League.
(Sport on 2: from 2.2 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook You and Your Time
Gardening Column: NIGEL MURPHY and JOHN WARREN find out what's special about your garden-centres and what's new in mechanical aids, motorised and manual.
Music and general knowledge.
Panel: Nan Winton, Ted Moult, Neil Durden-Smith v
Queens Dragoon Guards, Hohne, West Germany: Jerry McCall, Bob Ensor, Peter Hartwell, Mike Lomax
Questionmaster Alun Williams
Questions set, devised and produced by MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
(by arrangement with the BFBS)
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news
Will Fyffe: memories of one of Scotland's greatest character comedians, recalled by HOWARD LOCKHART and illustrated by his gramophone records.
Producer EDDIE FRASER (from Scotland: broadcast in 1971)
Introduced by Anne Gregg The week in Woman's Hour.
Mammon's Mile: FRANCES CAIRN-CROSS and HAMISH MCRAE examine our financial institutions. What the European papers say. Guest Margaret Weston , Director of the Science Museum.
No Home to Go To: BERNARD CLARK talks to London squatters. The First Seven Years by BERNARD MALAMUD abridged by MYRA BEATON Read by LEE MONTAGUE
medium wave
Sentence Deferred by DEREK BOND
When someone's carefully hoarded share of a Red Cross parcel goes missing a serious situation develops in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
Lt Ti Piata (Kiwi) NIGEL GRAHAM Lt Harry McAllister. GLENN BECK Mrs Cottram. ...ELIZABETH MORGAN Producer HARRY CATLIN
John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners Adventures of the Incredible Dr McLoon by BRIAN THOMPSON with JOHN PRANKLYN-ROBBINS and CAROLE HAYMAN Producer TONY CLIFF
4.5 Focus
SARAH FORBES and her 4th Dimension team look at films, shows, books and music especially for you.
Producer BOBBY JAYE
4.25 Things to Do
GEOFFREY THOMPSON talks about starting a stamp collection.
Producer JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH
4.30 The Hawks and the Doves A thriller series for the young and fearless: written for radio by PAT and DEREK HODDINOTT
4: Operation: Sleeping Beauty The inhabitants of an English village fall mysteriously asleep. Investigations by Inspector Marquis and the Doves begin an operation in which the Doves end up imprisoned in a large country house.
Producers DAVID H. GODFREY and DEREK HODDINOTT
Editor GRAHAM GAULD
A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. Introduced by Kenneth Robinson Producers
ALAN HAYDOCK , MIRIAM RAPP
JOY HATWOOD, ROSEMARY HART
5.55
Weather, programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday. 9.15 am)
Alistair Cooke is featured in RADIO TIMES Anniversary Souvenir on sale now at 50p
A nationwide look at the stories behind the day's sporting headlines.
Bill Sowerbutts, horticulturist, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.
(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
Avis Bunnage and Ronald Baddiley in Stringer's Last Stand by STAN BARSTOW and ALFRED BRADLEY : adapted for radio by TONY CLIFF
' I've been doing it wrong for years. I've known it. I've watched myself. There comes a time when you realise that you on your own can'cure your mistakes - can'wipe 'em out - because you've bred 'em into somebody else's bones.'
Producer TONY CLIFF (from Leeds)
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)
The book and the author Pickwick Triumphant!
Showing how the immortal Pickwick and others were created by the inimitable Boz and others: with many entertaining particulars descriptive of the astonishing rise to popularity of the novel with which Mr Dickens established his unrivalled reputation.
David Mahlowe as narrator David Gooderson as Dickens Other parts read by GEOFFREY BANKS , RONALD HARVI DAPHNE OXENFORD , JOHN PICKLES MARLENE SIDAWAY GRAHAM TENNANT
Singer TOM HARRISON accompanied by NORMAN HUDSON
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON (from Manchester)
Evening Prayers conducted by REV W. D. KENNEDY-BELL
preceded by Weather
