6.22 Farming Today: DAVID ADDIS
6.40 Prayer for the Day JEAN RICHARDSON
Introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
Including at 6.50 and 7.50
Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit; Weather and programme 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
medium wove only
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
NEM P 114; The church of God a kingdom is <BBC hb 183); Psalm 42; Luke 9. vv 37-50 (NEB); For the might of thine arm ... (BBC hb 242)
Here Endeth the First Lesson by FRANCES MCENANEY Read by J. G. Devlin
' Oh. Mr Downey , would you let me drive the car just a little way across the yard, just a little way. I know all about driving a car, honestly.'
I was much too Jar out all my life
And not waving but drowning
(STEVIE SMITH)
It is estimated that there are about 200,000 gifted children of school age in this country. Many are undetected, others are resented, bored in class and sometimes delinquent.
How do parents and teachers cope with the problems that often accompany giftedness? Sue MacGregor reports Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Chosen and told by Hugh Burden. 1: The Stalled Ox ' " There is an ox in my garden," she announced. "A common-or-garden ox, to use a slang expression. It is the garden part of it that I object to ... " '
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Presenter Lyn Macdonald Health and Welfare
A Hearty Gathering: BILL BRECKON drops in on a symposium about heart disease.
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Barbara Myers Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Nightmare Journeys: by bus in Baluchistan and by boat on Lake Nasser.
The March of Time: reflected in BA MASON'S magnifying mirror. The St Valentine's Day Massacre: a wry celebration. Readers DIANA BISHOP and STEPHEN THORNE.
JILL BALCON reads That Lady (4)
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Story: Tom und his Kite by KATHY BUCHANAN
No Frontiers for the Captain
The life and times of a broadcaster-a bout -town Producers MICHELL RAPER and HUGH PURCELL
4.0-4.5 News
Adventure Lit Their Star by KENNETH ALLSOP
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (4)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather. programme news
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Prieslland presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions* Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday. 4.5 pm)
Write to Any Answers!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Five classic cases in the story of British criminal investigation as we know it today.
1: The Trial of the Detectives by DONALD THOMAS with Narrated by Richard Bebb
In 1877 an audacious swindler with at least four aliases stood in a London dock accused of betting and other frauds. Before the case was over and he stood convicted. Harry Benson had also taken with him to the cells a sizeable number of high-ranking police officers whom he had systematically corrupted. The following year a radically altered CID was formed. with the voices of HENRY STAMPER , WILFRID CARTER BETTY HUNTLEY-WR 1GHT
DAVID BRIERLEY , ANTHONY BROTHERS FREDERICK TREVES , JOHN BAKER and ALAN BARRY
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Whodunit? and how?: page 3
People and Politics in Ulster
The politicians of Northern Ireland have come a long way in the last year or so. The unthinkable has happened: political opponents are sharing the task of government.
But how much closer are the people of Northern Ireland to a lasting solution? In the end that will not be determined only by political initiatives but by the people themselves. Christopher Serpell reports from Northern Ireland.
Producer ANTHONY RENDELL
John Tusa reporting
Introduced by Nigel Rees Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Harris in Wonderland
Read by BRIAN MATTHEW (4)
News Headlines followed by Radio 4 s International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
