S.22 Farming Week: presented from Wales by GERRY GADSDEN
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by 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
Regional VHF: see last column
by NORMAN FOX: abridged and produced by MARGARET ETALL Read by SEAN BARRETT (10)
Aided by Harriet Crawley, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson, Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets surprise guests for whom this week promises to be special.
Among today's items: a new bird at your birdtable; how do guinea-pigs sleep; and a selection of wildlife sounds, including a fox and nightingale ' duet.'
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
New Every Morning, p 102; Three Kings from Persian lands afar (OBC 193); Psalm 147, vv 1-12; Luke 3, vv 1-11 (NEB); Earth has many a noble city (BBC HB 64)
The new edition of New Every Morning, from booksellers: £1.00 (cloth), 50P (paper)
The Powers of Imagination by ERIC CROSS
Read by Allan McClelland
'I'm telling you till I'm sick of telling you that it's a bottle of blessed water,' said Michael Sullivan. The sergeant scanned it carefullv, then he drew the cork and smelt it with a low, leisurely sniff Producer EILEEN CAPEL
(Details as Saturday, 1.15) *
DEREK PARKER introduces recordings from the BBC Sound Archives in which people describe a meeting which has remained imprinted on their memory.
Presenter Nancy Wise
Work and Money
A Holiday ' Home ' Abroad?: TIM MATTHEWS looks at some arrangements which can beat even the downward floating pound.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
Roy Plomley's castaway is scientist and broadcaster Dr Jacob Bronowski. Show more
Dr J. Bronowski with Roy Plomley
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Michael Cooke
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two
2.8-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Transvestism: what does it mean and how common is it? A personal story, and comment from a psychiatrist.
Where to go in 1974 - 1: Spain. Rene Cutforth, Maeve Binchy and Stephen Danos answer questions devised and put to them by Tom Savage.
The Marigold Field by Diane Pearson: a romantic family saga, set mostly in Sussex at the turn of the century abridged by Ann Rees Jones read by Barbara Mitchell (first of 14 instalments.
Music: Symphony No 2 by Kalinnikov)
Story: Wash Day by ELAINE DAVIS
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Huckleberry Finn by MARK TWAIN Read by BOB SHERMAN 6: Family Grief
Huck and Jim have been taken up by the King of France and the Duke of Bridgewater. Their uninvited patrons now involve the two fugitives in an ambitious confidence trick.
The news magazine: presented by Michael Cooke with PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud and Aimi Macdonald try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Prieslland presenting world news and views
Elsie and Doris Waters look back on an eventful and happy life and recall their many friends including, this week:
MAURICE CHEVALIER , MAX MILLER ARTHUR ASKEY , RICHARD MURDOCH PETBR DAWSON , GERTIE GITANA AL READ. Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON Last of six programmes
Room for Argument
(La Raaione degli Altri) by LUIGI PIRANDELLO translated and adapted for radio by HENRY REED
This is the English premier of Pirandello's first full-length play, written at the end of the last century but not performed In Italy until 1915.
It is, in a way, an ' eternal triangle ' drama, though we fairly soon realise that behind the triangle there is an almost spectral quadrangle. The cruel resolution to this situation will leave a question-mark in the mind of many a listener.
Guglielmo Groa. CARLETON HOBBS
Producer GLYN DEARMAN
(Rptd: next Sunday afternoon) (Ian Richardson , Eileen Atkins arL' members of the rsc; Jack May is in ' At the End of the Day ' at the Savoy, London)
Douglas Stuart reporting, with International Business Report and at 10.25* Market Trends
by Daisy Ashford
arranged in five parts and produced by Margaret Etall
Read by Helen Worth
"Mr Salleena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him..."
A 9-year-old's delightful view of life in a grown-up world.
Introduced by Paul Vaughan Producer RICHARD GILBERT
Personal Favourites
Five celebrated people talk about their favourite performing comedians.
1: Sir John Betjeman on Marie Lloyd, Harry Tate, and ' Monsewer ' Eddie Gray
Devised and researched by John Fisher
Producer Bob Oliver Rogers
preceded by Weather
