6.22 Farming Today: DAVID ADDIS
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV NIGEL MCCULLOCH
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
A chance to hear again a story selected from this popular series
A Dill Pickle by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Read by Jill Balcon
' I remember the evening a party of us went for a picnic by the Black Sea. ... And while we were eating, the coachman came up: "Have a dill pickle" he said
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER I
The Heart Urchin
A few inches below the surface of the sandy shore an intriguing creature lurks snugly in its burrow. The attractive spiny heart urchins are not so easily seen as their relatives the starfish, but beneath our feet they set up a very comfortable home complete with ' lodgers.'
Introduced by PETER FRANCE
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
The sounds and scenes of a year in the past challenge the memories of residents James Burke and Isobel Barnett and guests Kenneth Williams and Gordon Clough.
Robin Ray puts the questions, aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Questions Set by MARGARET HOWARD Producer HELEN FRY
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments. Introduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN Producer TOM READ
NEM p 84; Lo, now is our accepted day (BBC HB 342); Canticle 4; Psalm 51, vv 1-13 (Jerusalem Bible); Forty days and forty nights (BBC HB 341)
The Peregrine Falcon by PAULINE SPENDER
Read by Clive Merrison
'That morning, when Danny came into the bar with his sack and told us what he'd got, even I wasn'sure that I'd ever be able to trust him again ... - Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Clive Merrison is a National Theatre player)
and investigates the humour of the subject with the help of Alfred Marks
With the voices of WARREN MITCHELL , DANDY NICHOLS STEPTOE AND SON, WOODY ALLEN JOHN CLEESE and others
Producers SIMON BRETT and BOB OLIVER ROGERS
The Sound of the Planet
Dissolving by ANNE LEATON with 'People are always saying that as we grow older, things become less surprising. But that isn'true. I have a feeling that one day I'll simply be surprised to death.'
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
Presenter Nancy Wise Consumer Style
Value for Money - Dry Cleaning: the professional shop versus the coin machines. Which offers the better and cheaper job? And what recourse does one have if a garment is torn or defaced in any way after cleaning? MOLLY PRICE-OWEN reports.
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12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Moura Lympany
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
How I Became a Vegetarian: ROBERTA KIMBER.
Free to be You and Me: SONIA BEESLEY reports on the Women's Movement in America.
JILL BALCON reads That Lady (13)
Story: Best Blue Trousers by URSULA DANIELS
Halfway Home by BETTY PAUL with Len Jones , Judy Franklin and Geoffrey Matthews
'He's not really a bad lad. Fact remains there's not many would give him a home. Nobody wants to know about the ex-prisoner ...'
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
Elsie and Doris Waters look back on an eventful and happy life and recall their many friends including, this week: BING CROSBY
The cast of ltma
CHARLIE KUNZ , HARRY JAMES ' MON SEWER ' EDDIE GRAY
CHARLES TRENET , SOPHIE TUCKER FRANKIE HOWERD
The second of six programmes Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Tom Jones by HENRY FIELDING
Read by FREDERICK TREVES (3)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Your questions dliscussed by Renée Houston, Nancy Wise
Nikki Archer , Margaret Powell In the chair Anona Winn
(Repeated: Friday, 4.5 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland
Cole Porter was that rare being, a top-ranking popular composer without a 'rags to riches ' background. He was born rich, and spent his life in opulent surroundings. It shows in his work, which is as much a song book as a treasure chest. Dipping into it, FRANK DIXON comes up with some of the expected set-pieces-and with a few unexpected gems. Presented by RAY MOORE Producer HERBERT SMITH
Balance Brought Forward by R. D. WINGFIELD with Aubrey Woods and Peter Williams
'The police never close their files. It's like owing the bank money - they never leave you alone ... Wouldn'it be rotten luck to think you'd got away with it for 30 years and then ... '
Det Sgt Bettey. MANNING WILSON Producer HARRY CATLIN
High Society
The world of Nancy Mitford embraces Uncle Matthew and the Sun King, ' The Bolter and Madame de Pompadour. For nearly 30 years her novels and biographies have, in the best tradition of 'noblesse oblige,' diverted the ' common reader.'
Such pleasures are celebrated by Alan Melville, John Julius Norwich and Amanda Theunissen
(Bristol)
Introduced by Paul Vaughan Producer MIRIAM RAPP
Douglas Stuart reporting including Campaign Report and Business News
The Well of Loneliness
Read by JUDY PARFIIT (5)
preceded by Weather
