S.22 Farming Week: presented from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, pius the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson. Including at 6.50 and 7.50 med wave only Travel news, What's on. and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER : Weather and prog news at 6.55 and 7.55.
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Tuesday, 11.45 am)
Aided by Harriet Crawley , Benny Green , Lance Percival , Esther Rantzen. Kenneth Rob inson, Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets surprise guests.
Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
' It's a minute bird. with a greenish back, two white bars on the wing and a bright yellow stripe along its head - whatever can it be? ' Well, whatever it is, a great many Listeners have seen a bird like this and can hear the answer to this and other queries as provided today by the Wildlife team.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
NEM p 102; My God, accept my heart this day (BBC HB 356); Psalm 100; Luke 9, vv 1-17 (NEB): Lead, kindly light (BBC HB 306)
by R.T. Plumb
Read by John Richmond
"There he was, the Grand Old Man himself, whiskery, colourful, beaming up from the inside bottom of the chamber pot as if in paradise. Some people might have been amused ... I went icy cold ..."
(medium wave only)
(Details as Saturday, 1.15) 1
DEREK PARKER introduces recordings from the Archives.
Presenter Nancy Wise Work and Money
Collector on a Small Budget: TIN MATTHEWS looks at a hobby that can pay off and MARGARET KORVING tells you more about job opportunities. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist Brian Inglis. Show more
Brian Inglis
12.55 Weather, programme news
Robert Williams
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
A Disorder not a Disease: PAT BENNETT finds out about psoriasis.
Over-rated Pleasures: described by ALISON BRUCE , CLARE SLATER , JOHN FRANCIS and ARTHUR MARSHALL
That Lady by KATE O'BRIEN abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Jill Balcon
A love story based on a true incident in the Spain of Philip II. (First of 14 instalments. Music: Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Kainu Days by EMMA MILTON
Find Tony
Adventure Lit Their Star by KENNETH ALLSOP abridged for radio in five parts and read by Denys Hawthorne Kenneth Allsop 's first novel is an account of the little ringed plover's early attempt to establish itself in this country. Written in 1949, Adventure Lit Their Star was awarded the 1950 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
Producer HARRY CATLIN
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
from the original TV series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
Mr Mainwaring, self-appointed commander of his platoon of LDV, puts the defence of the realm before his own personal pride - and nearly comes a cropper.
featuring John Laurie, James Beck and Geoffrey Lumsden, With David Sinclair and John Snagge
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
by JOHN FOWLES : abridged in seven parts by MOLLIE HARDWICK Read by GARY WATSON
Part 3: The setting is Lyme Regis in 1867. On an expedition to find suitable palaeontologicai specimens, Charles - a gentleman scientist - comes upon the French Lieutenant's Woman asleep on a secluded ledge high over the sea.
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)
A series of plays which have had a major influence on the development of the theatre during the past 100 years.
The Playboy of the Western World by j. M. SYNGE : adapted for radio by w. R. RODGERS with Sorcha Cusack
Declan Harvey , Godfrey Quigley Olive McFarland
' Then 1 turned around with my back to the north, and I hit a blow on the ridge of his skull, laid stretched out, and he split to the knob of his gullet.' So young Christy Mahon describes the deed of killing his father to wide-eyed country girls in County Mayo. This is Synge's great ' dark comedy,' first produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1907, where audiences rioted for a week against his attack on Celtic sentimentality.
Other vitlagers REX HOLDSWORTH MOLLIE PETRIE , HUBERT TUCKER
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A nightly review of the arts and science. Introduced tonight by Peter France Producer JOY HATWOOD
Harris in Wonderland by PHILIP REID , abridged and edited by NEVILLE TELLER
When someone frames journalist Stuart Harris on a drug-smuggling charge, he knows he's got enemies. But who are they ...?
Read by Brian Matthew
First of eight instalments Producer JOHN CARDY
News Headlines followed by Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
