6.22 Farming Today: DAVID ADDIS
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson including at 6.50 and 7.50 med wave only Travel news. What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit at 6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news at 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today at 7.25 and 8.25 . Commonwealth Games
Sportsdesk with reports from Christchurch at 7.35* and 8.35* Papers
7.45-7.50 Thought for the Day
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
NEM, p 62; Enthrone thy God (BBC RB 320); Psalm 25, vv 1-10; Luke 7, vv 11-23 (NEB); Holy Father, in thy mercy (BBC HB 386)
The Gimmick by HELEN COLE Read by June
Barrie Uncle Tims a terrific character now, so different from when he stood behind the bar like a shaggy old sheep lost in day-dreams. But that was before his sister. Lottie, got struck by her ' idea.'
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Surgery of the Brain
The ancient Egyptians bored holes in skulls to let out devils. Today brain surgeons save the lives of hundreds of people injured in car accidents; they carry out highly sophisticated operations to excise tumours, to eradicate and to alleviate mental suffering. Compiled and narrated by Tony Van den Bergh
Producer ALAN BURGESS
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Health and Welfare
You Won't Feel a Thing! David Hawksworth finds out how safe are different forms of dental anaesthesia.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
{Tuesday's broadcast) 1
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two - Children's Rights: adoption, guardian-ship and fostering discussed in the light of the proposed Children's Bill.
2.0-2.2 News
How to survive in a man-made world: ANNA COOTE and TESS GILL on their new book Women's Rights - a practical guide.
Reading your letters.
Old Films on TV: GORDON GOW looks at the line-up. RICHARD BRIERS reads The Complete Steel by CATHERINE AIRD (4)
Story: The Six Thin Brothers by JOY TUCKER
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
The Night of the Cobra by PETER F. FERGUSON
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (Birmingham)
The life and times of a broadcaster-about-town Producers MICHELL RAPER and HUGH PURCELL
4.0-4.5 News
The Long Ships
Read by MICHAEL MCCLAIN 9: Jesters at the Feast
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team S.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday, 4.5 pm)
Throughout the 19th century, patent medicines and health gadgets went into every home; people took them for every sort of disease. Many were worthless, some positively harmful; but a gullible public went on swallowing and the ' quacks made their fortunes.
Written by LEO KNOWLES
Narrator GEOFFREY WHEELER with the voices of DAVID MAHLOWE , GEOFFREY BANKS MARAH STOHL , JOHN LINSTRUM HERBERT SMITH , DAVID HATTON PETER ELLIS , CHRIS WILKINSON ELIZABETH MCKENZIE
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (Manchester)
Under Plainer Cover?
Parliament is currently considering legislation to control the public display of indecent material. The Cinematograph and Indecent Display Bill would affect many forms of amusement and cultural activity. There are those who think its provisions inadequate; others feel it goes further than it should.
Are we witnessing a shift in the frontiers of public taste? Analysis examines the intentions and likely effects of the Bill and goes on to consider some of the wider issues it raises.
Presented by Ian Mclntyre Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Douglas Stuart reporting
Introduced by Nigel Rees
Leopard in the Sun by SIEGFRIED STANDER
Read by JOAN MATHESON (4)
News Headlines followed by Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
