C.22 Farming Week: presented from East Anglia by DAVID RICHARDSON
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 Robert Robinson and James Burke 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
STEVE RACE finds some of today's events reflected in yesterday's Sound Archive recordings.
Aided by Harriet Crawley, Benny Green, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson, Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round.
' As whales are mammals, how do they suckle their young? It is hard to imagine sucking under water, but it is also hard to imagine whales coming out of the water. I have been asking this question since I was 4. Now I am 11, but nobody has been able to tell me.' Well, seven years is a long time to wait but the Wildlife team hopes to answer this question - and others - in this morning's programme. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
NEM p 1; Spirit of mercy, truth, and love (BBC HE 163); Psalm 99; Luke 10. vv 16-24 (NEB); 0 greatly blessed the people are (BBC Hi 469)
Breakdown by UNA FUTT Read by Timothy Earle
' " Not much point in making a fuss, is there? " said a quiet female voice close to Ted ... There was the unmistakable pressure of breasts against his body ...
medium wore only
(Details as Saturday, 1.15)
DEREK PARKER introduces recordings from the Archives.
Presenter Lyn MacDonald Work and Money
Commissioning a Work of Art: anyone can have a personal glass goblet engraved, pot thrown, or tapestry woven. MICHAEL GILLIAM looks at a countrywide register of selected craftsmen.
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Roy Fox. Show more
Roy Fox, bandleader
12.55 Weather, programme news
Robert Williams
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANBREW BOYLE
from 2.0 introduced by Sue MacGregsr Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Woman in Crisis - 3: MICHAEL SMEE talks to a woman whose husband is in jail for life. Should she plan her life as if he were dead?
Where to go in 1974 - 4: Southern Ireland. MAEVE BINCHY, RENE CUTFORTH and JOHN CARTER answer questions set and devised by tom SAVAGE
Jill Balcon reads That Lady by KATE O'BRIEN (6)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Brother Mouse and Sister Mouse by RUTH AINSWORTH
The Secretary Bird
by James Martin, abridged in five parts by Barry Campbell
Read by Ed Bishop
A down-to-earth account of a murder investigation in a large American city told from the point of view of the two detectives assigned to the case.
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, Clive Dunn
Captain Mainwaring and his men triumph over the problems of security, fifth columnists and German parachutists - and make a profit.
featuring James Beck, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender and Carl Jaffe, with David Sinclair and John Snagge
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael
Deputy editor VINCENT BUGGLERY Editor BRIAN BLISS
by JOHN FOWLES : abridged in seven parts by MOLLIE HARDWICK Read by GARY WATSON Part 4
' Charles watched her. with a smile in his mind, not on his lips. He could see she was at a loss how to begin. Perhaps it was out of a timid modesty, yet he began very distinctly to sense that he was being challenged to coax the mystery out of her.'
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)
by MAXIM GORKI translated from the Russian by MICHAEL GLENNY with Freddie Jones
Maxine Audley and Alan Webb This is the first English production of this play. It had its premiere at the Marly Theatre. Moscow, on New Year's Day 1919.
A successful building contractor has his life shattered by the intrusion of an old man whom he knew in the past ... Provincial Russia at the turn of the century.
(Rptd: next Sunday afternoon)
9.29 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEDY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Introduced by Paul Vaughan Producer MIRIAM RAPP
Harris In Wonderland by PHILIP REID
Read by BRIAN MATTHEW (6)
News Headlines followed by Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
