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 60-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 Sportsdesk; at 8.30* Sports Spot; at 8.40' Today's Papers
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ALAN WATKINS
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
GERARD EVANS reviews what the weeklies have to say with illustrations read by ROY WILLIAMSON
Narrator BRYAN MARTIN Producers ANNE SLOMAN
BERNARD TATE , TOM READ
New Every Morning, p 122; Christ the Lord is risen! (BBC Hymn Book 100); Canticle 10; Isaiah 7, vv 1-4, 10, 16 (RSV); 0 what their joy (BBC HB 252)
11.30 Announcements
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
News and prospects of the day's sport, featuring: Football in England and Scotland; Racing at Cheltenham; Rugby Union; Rugby League.
(Sport on 2: from 2.2 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook You and Your Time
Gardening Column: NIGEL MURPHY and JOHN WARREN on how to keep cyclamens, poinsettias and dwarf chrysanthemums blooming till the New Year; what's new in garden tools for Christmas; and putting your garden in order for the spring. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
7: Midlands
(Details as Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
A spontaneous discussionby Lord Hill Shirley Williams , mp
Robin Day. Harold Evans Chairman David Jacobs
Introduced by Judith Chalmers The week in Woman's Hour.
The Professional Novelist: MORRIS WEST on the craft of the storyteller.
What the European papers say. Where are they now?: top model BARBARA GOALEN on her career and how she looks at the fashion world now.
Alarm Call - 2: a closer look at our emergency services. And Sarah Laughed by JOANNE GREENBERG abridged by DOREEN ESTALL Read by JUNE BARRIE
The plays of PHILIP LEVENE : a new production in a series of the most successful plays of this popular storyteller. A Question of Guilt
' I tell you I didn'do it! I never killed Mrs Lumley!
Producer BETTY DAVIES
John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners. Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN With NIGEL LAMBERT , GARARD GREEN and JO MANNING WILSON Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
4.5 Animals Unlimited meets some of its listeners at the Wigmore Library, Gillingham. PHIL DRABBLE will be there, with JIM FLEGG , PAT MORRIS , a ferret, a chameleon ... and any other animals that turn up.
Producer DILYS BREESE
4.25 Postbag
Some of your letters read by KIM CLIFFORD and GARY KEMP.
4.30 Duke Diamond
The space fiction serial in six parts by ROBIN SMYTH 5: 1, Yangor
It is the year 2480. Far from Earth there exists a world called Fivestars. Its inhabitants wish to live in peace - but there are others of darker intent.
Radiophonic special sounds and music by DICK MILLS
Play produced and programme edited by GRAHAM GAULD
4D annual, 80p: see page 86
A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. Introduced by Gordon Snell Producer TONY GOULD
5.55
Weather, programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Book, Alistair Cooke 's America: from booksellers, £5.00
A nationwide look at the stories behind the day's sporting headlines.
Gareth Edwards, Welsh international rugby star, 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)
The Semi-attached Couple
A dramatisation by THEA HOLME Of EMILY EDEN'S novel with Joanna David
Robert Powell , Lynn Farleigh
' If only hj loved me less and said less about it, I believe I could learn to love him more! As it is, every day I become colder and more unkind.'
Lord Eskdale....ANTONY VICCARS Pianist ANNA BERENSKA Producer JANE GRAHAM
9.58 Weather
George Mikes Honor Balfour Stanley Collier in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (Manchester)
An evening Meditation by REV FRANK TOPPING
preceded by Weather
