6.22 Farming Today: DAVID ADDIS
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV PHILIP CROWE
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 €.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
by ANITA LOOS
Read by TOBY ROBINS 3: Paris is Devine
(medium wave only)
The sounds and scenes of a year in the past challenge the memories of residents James Burke and Isobel Barnett and guests Robert Dougall and Matthew Norgate
Robin Ray puts the questions, aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.
Introduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN Producer TOM READ
NEM p 54; 0 Holy Spirit, Lord of grace <BBC HB 157); Psalm 143; Luke 13. vv 10-21 (NEB); God is working his purpose out (BBC HB 177)
The Song of the Wren by H. E. BATES
Read by Marjorie Westbury
She sat utterly absorbed in the brilliance of the wren's song I must apologise for the intrusion, madam. I'm engaged in a social survey and I wondered if you would mind answering a few questions ...
and investigates the humour of the subject with the help of Alfred Marks with the voices of BOB NEWHART , JOHN CLEESE
TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR , DAVID HATCH PETER COOK , DUDLEY MOORE and others
Producers SIMON BRETT and BOB OLIVER ROGERS
Poor Glover
A comedy by ERIC CHAPPELL
Glover is dead - poor Glover! Carstairs has taken ever his job. He had reckoned without the insidious Osborne - poor Carstairs?
Peter Jones as Mr Carstairs John Hollis as Mr Osborne and Julie Halfam as Sally Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
Presenter George Luce Consumer Style
Can' draw the curtains for potted plants? Kitchen constantly used as a workshop? Then join GEORGE LUCE when he opens the door on sectional garden sheds and workshops.
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest Sir Neville Cardus
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
' I'd recognise him anywhere.' Or would you?: PATRICIA HASTINGS has her doubts.
A Cruise to Madeira: what does a holiday cruise offer you? GLADYS NICOL reports.
A Sporting Proposition by JAMES ALDRIDGE. Abridged by FIONA MACPHERSON
Read by TRADER FAULKNER
The story of two children and a pony and how they affected a small Australian town in the 1930s. (First of nine instalments. Music: Dance in the Sunlight by Bax)
Story: The Magic Guitar by JOYCE CARPENTER
A warm and tender study of a group of women in hospital, and how they react to the place, and in particular to the fact that they are women.
Elsie and Doris Waters look back on an eventful and happy life and recall their many friends including, this week: G. H. ELLIOTT , GILLIE POTTER MANTOVANI. HARRY HEMSLEY
THE WESTERN BROTHERS
MARIE LLOYD
THE GLUMS from
Take It From Here Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Tora Jones by HENRY FIELDING (8)
William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Your questions discussed by Renee Houston
Katharine Whitehorn
Juno Alexander , Eileen Fowler In the chair Anona Winn
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland
Give Me a Good Choir Anyday says Leonard Pearcey , who celebrates the universal love of choral singing, with the help of some musicians, music-lovers, and choirs from here and abroad.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
Marriage a la Feydeau
An occasional series of one-act plays by GEORGES FEYDEAU in which the master of French farce follows the hilarious progress from Marriage to (almost) Divorce.
Translated and adapted for radio by PETER MEYER with 4: Don' Walk About with Nothing On
(Mais n'te promène done pas toule nue) with Hugh Griffith
The scene is the Ventroux drawing-room, Paris, about 1910.
Producer GLYN DEARMAN
Something Nasty in the Woodshed
With Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons punctured forever the pretensions of heavy-breathing sagas of rustic life.
'And who's to know what will happen to me when the sukebind is out in the hedges again, and I feel so strange on the long summer evenings?'
Kenneth Williams, Arthur Marshall and Amanda Theunissen meet their Doom in darkest Sussex.
(Bristol)
Introduced by Peter France Producer joy HATWOOD
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Well of Loneliness (9)
News Headlines followed by Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Five talks by Peter Nichols 3: Power and Government
We regard power and government as meaning much the same: the Italians do not.' The Italians change their government with great- frequency. But they are experts in the use of political power.
preceded by Weather
