6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day FR ANTHONY STOREY
Introduced bv John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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
Families from all over Britain talk about their beliefs, feelings, and practice when it comes to telling the children about sex, behaviour and morals. How do they learn the facts of life? And what should you tell teenagers?
Introduced by Jan Brookes
Research by JANICE DICKERSON Producer JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH (Birmingham)
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments. Introduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN Producer TOM READ
New Every Morning (new edition) page 67; The Lord doth reign, and clothed is he (BBC HB 476); Psalm 119, part 3; 1 Samuel 17, vv 1-11 (NEB): 0 splendour of God's glory bright (BBC HB 409)
Martha by PHILIPPA SAMUEI,
Read by Martin Jarvis
. I don'know if it's because you talk to her, but that robot of yours gives me the shivers ... I don'get it with other people's robots ..
A panel game for four hands
Leader of the pack and chairman is David Nixon who deals to June
Whitfield Patrick Moore , William Rushton Devised and shuffled by JAN MESSITER. Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX
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by Margaret Harris
'Oh Marian, my dear, how did these two ever get to be related to you? Two funerals in the family and them round here wanting to try on hats. You'll forgive me, Marian, if I blow my top a wee bit.'
Presenter Nancy Wise Consumer Style
The Laces are not so Bad!: GEORGE LUCE finds out what value you should get when you have shoes repaired.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Dilys Powell , film critic of the Sunday Times
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Confrontation: John Wells , Chairman of the Road Haulage Association, confronts a panel of critics of the juggernaut-among them listeners to Woman's Hour and VERA LYNN , the singer, IAN BREACH, an environmental journalist, and RICHARD HOPE, Editor of Railway Gazette International.
TONY BRITTON reads The Long Divorce by EDMUND CRISPIN (3)
Story: The Car That Never Grumbled by RUTH AINSWORTH
Chords and Discords by SUZANNE EBEL
' I used to think being married was like grafting roses. You take the stems and bind them together and in the end they actually grow into one. I felt like that; but Matt cut me off.'
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
For thousands of children - and adults, too - who ' listened in' each Friday afternoon, Romany was the countryside, and his adventures, with Muriel, Doris and Raq, part of real life.
Thirty years after his death Romany is affectionately remembered by his family and broadcasting friends.
Introduced and produced by DILYS BREESE
' He was loved page 5
A Gentleman of France 8: Pursuit
William Hardcastle
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Your questions discussed by Rente Houston, Peggy Mount Jean Marsh , Sally Beauman In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland
on behalf of the Labour Party
St Cecilia's Eve
St Cecilia is the patron of music. Today, the eve of her special day, is the occasion for a ' celebration ' designed by Steve Race. He recalls some of the magnificent music (light and serious) written in her honour, her supposed invention of the organ, and speculates on her feelings about certain kinds of music being heard today.
Producer PETER de ROSA
The Locksley Marriage Prize by JOHN ASHE with Betty Huntley-Wright and Peter Williams
There are about 400,000 marriages a year in the United Kingdom. Just over 1,000 a dav on average. How many childless? Married in the Church of England, and still together after 25 years? A white wedding on a Monday in November 1948. Do Muriel and Henry qualify for the prize?
Hospital Sister.ELIZABETH MORGAN Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
Change Without War
Six talks about the shifting structures of world power ty Alastair Buchan
2: The Emerging Agenda
The rise in world trade, the growth of the multinational company, the dependence of the industrialised world on imported raw materials are all creating an international order in which countries are extremely vulnerable to each other's policy decisions - these are the new items on the agenda of world politics which increasing interdependence is causing.
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
9.29 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with at 10.25* Market Trends
Wheel Fortune by KAREN CAMPBELL
Read by ANN MORRISH (8)
A nightly review of the arts and science
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. Introduced tonight by Paul Vaughan Producer MIRIAM RAPP
preceded by Weather