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 Conference Special Liberal Party Assembly
Delegates and observers look back at the week's events in Southport and discuss their likely impact on Liberal Party strategy in the coming months. Presenter ALAN WATSON
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
BERNARD TATE , GERRY MONTE
New Every Morning, p 33; Come, ye faithful (BBC HB 123); Psalm 24; St Mark 10, v 46, to 11, v 11 (AV); See the Conqueror mounts (BBC HB 129)
11.30 Announcements
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
News and prospects for all the day's big events, including: Ryder Cup at Muirfield; Football in England and Scotland; Racing at Sandown Park; Athletics at Crystal Palace; Rugby Union and Rugby League. (Sport on 2: from 2.2 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook
You and Your Time: It's not all honey: SANDI MARSHALL discovers the problems and delights of bee-keeping.
A weekly quiz
Panel: NAN WINTON , TED MOULT NEIL DURDEN-SMITH V
' A ' Squadron, 4th Royal Tank Regiment, Berlin, W Germany: EYRE MAUNSELL, BARRY TOSDEVINE DICK TRACEY , ANDREW WHITFIELD 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
Stanley Holloway
A programme that looks at the career of this star of stage, screen and radio from monologues to My Fair Lady and from Eating to Elsinore.
Compiled and introduced by LEONARD PEARCEY
Producer RICHARD WILCOX
Introduced by Anne Gregg The week in Woman's Hour. Guest Peter Cushing Mammon's Mile: FRANCES CAIRN-
CROSS and HAMISH MCRAE examine our financial institutions. What the European papers say. I just did it for laughs: BERNARD CLARKE investigates the problem of violent girls. The Lost Chapel Picnic by MARGERY SHARP abridged by FIONA MACPHERSON Read by ANN FARRAR
medium wave
Full Fathom Five by IVOR WILSON
A man's body is found in Hull docks. Since he was knocked out, and his body weighted before being thrown in, it's obviously no ordinary drowning. And only MI6 appear to be concerned about his death ...
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)
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
4.5Sportscene
Another look at some of the top personalities of today including DAVID BAIRSTOW , the schoolboy who left an A-level examination room to become a first-class cricketer. Producer DON MOSEY
4.25 A Picture of Summer
ROY HAYWARD gives details of a photographic competition. Prizes to be won! Entries to: Competition, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
4.30 The Hawks and the Doves A thriller series for the young and fearless: written for radio by PAT and DEREK HODDINOTT 5: Operation: Satan
The Doves receive a phone call during which the caller is shot. What begins as a murder enquiry ends with the Doves grappling with ' Satan,' an evil organisation operating from subterranean caves.
Producers DAVID H. GODFREY and DEREK HODDINOTT
Editor GRAHAM GAULD
A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. People, ideas and events in the world of arts and sciences. Introduced by Peter France Producers
MIRIAM RAPP , JOY HATWOOD ALAN HAYDOCK
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
Anationwide look at the stories behind the day's sporting headlines.
Leontyne Price, soprano, 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)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
Three Blows in Anger: a new play for radio by DAVID WADE with Susan Richards. Elizabeth Proud and John Pullen
' Listen to me, Gwyn, son of Griffith: you and my daughter will live in peace and prosperity for as long as you do not strike her three times without good cause. On the third blow she will leave you and return to me bringing with her all that I have given. That is my word ...'
Music composed by DAVID CAIN Welsh harp FRANCES KELLY Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
The saga of her survival presented in the words of her saga literature.
Compiled and narrated by ALAN BOUCHER
Readers SHEILA GRANT
GABRIEL WOOLF. NIGEL LAMBERT Producer MICHAEL MASON
A meditation led by PETER FIRTH
preceded by Weather
