6.32 Farming Today: DAVID ADDIS
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
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Douglas Cameron introduces Radio 4s 60-minute worldwide look at the weekend
Including at 7.50 medium wave only Travel news and What's on; Weather and programme news at 7.55.
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with DAVID WOOD
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
KEITH OVENDEN reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by JOHN MARSH Narrator DAVID WILLMOTT Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
BERNARD TATE , GERRY MONTE
New Every Morning page 97: New every morning is the love (BBC Hymn Book 408); Psalm 50; Luke 8, vv 40-56 (NEB): Father of mercies (BBC HB 189)
Introduced by ALAN PARRY
News and prospects of the day's sport, featuring: Football in England and Scotland; Racing at Newbury; Rugby Union; Rugby League.
(Sport on 2: from 2.2 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook You and Your Time
The Answer Lies in the Compost!: NIGEL MURPHY and JOHN WARREN look at the organic versus the inorganic ways of making a compost pit: buying butterflies for your garden, plus what to be doing in the garden this week.
Chairman Robert Robinson 1: London
JUDITH TODD, chartered accountant; JAMES OSWALD , technical director; ALAN BULLOCK , school-master; JOHN ADLINGTON , retired teacher
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
Book, Brain of Britain, 35p: see page 50
12.55
Weather, programme news
Bernard Levin , Diana Rigg Roy Hattersley , mp
Patrick Cormack , mp
Chairman David Jacobs
Introduced by Judith Chalmers The week in Woman's Hour. Guest Sir Adrian Boult.
Investments. 5: ELLEN WINSER , stockbroker, advises listeners with various financial problems on how to cope with them. What the European papers say. Proof Against What?: DILYS MORGAN braves showers and downpours in a variety of rainwear.
Legal Aid by FRANK O'CONNOR abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHlRE Read by ALAN BARRY
by Mervyn Haisman
with Lee Montague as Christopher Porter
When private detective Christopher Porter is engaged to visit a millionaire's private estate in the West country to investigate deer poaching, he doesn't expect to find... murder!
Producer KEITH SLADE
Introduced by John Dunn
Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN
4.5 Argue! TONY ECCLES takes the chair as children from Manchester discuss fashion. Producer GILLIAN HUSH
4.25 Matchbox Competition
JOHN DUNN asks young listeners to see how many different articles they can get into a normal sized matchbox.
4.30 Smoke over Shap by MARGARET POTTER
An adventure serial in six instalments. based on the building of a railway in tire North of England in the 1840s. 1: Into Hazard
Play produced and programme edited by TREVOR HILL
Introduced by Gordon Snell Producer TONY GOULD
5.55 med wave only Weather
by ALISTAIH COOKE
Brian Inglis , writer and broadcaster, with ROY PLOMLEY. Producer RONALD COOK
(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
Find Tony by JOHN KIRKMORRIS with Clive Swift
Tony's mother is understandably worried when her son suddenly goes away without as much as a postcard to let her know where he is. She finds the thought of listing him as a missing person ' is alarming, so instead she contacts a private detective.
Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)
Peter Parker
Professor Ralph Milliband T. E. Uttley in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (Manchester)
This week: Not in Front of the Children
Adapted from his TV series by Richard Waring
starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, Francis Matthews as Henry Corner in House in a Tree
Henry builds a somewhat shaky tree house overhanging a bus stop and comes up against the law.
Words, prayers and music for the late evening led by REV STEWART LAMONT
preceded by Weather
12.6* am Inshore forecast