6.22 Farming Today: DAVID ADDIS
6.40 Prayer foe the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
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 Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
If you want to laugh at life, ring Ted Ray, who says that somewhere at the back of his mind there is a gag for any subject,
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am
Presenter Roger Cook
Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
NEM, p 89; God's law Is perfect (BBC HB 456); Psalm 130: Luke 16, vv 10-18 (NEB); Soldiers of the Cross, arise! (BBC HB 367)
by Geoff Perkins
Read by Frank Windsor
Sid's absence from the Chain-maker's Arms didn't please his regulars. It seemed the only thing to do was to take matters into their own hands.
Healer Extraordinary
Master printer; army captain; Parliamentary candidate: Harry Edwards is better known throughout the world as the leading Spiritualist healer.
A profile of the man and his life's work by PETER FRANCE. Producer ROY HAYWARD (Bristol)
HAROLD WILLIAMSON elicits from children some strange and wonderful pictures of God.
(BBC Sound Archive recording)
Presenter Nigel Murphy You and the Law
A Question of Confidence: how private are your medical records? asks BILL BRECKON. Editor DENNIS LOWER
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
(medium wave only from 2.0)
Introduced from Bristol by Daphne Hubbard
'A gentleman is someone who is never rude unintentionally': Gerald Harper talks to Carole Stone.
2.0-2.2 News
As Difficult as ABC: Kathryn Adie looks at the value of preschool reading.
'More British than the British ': a view from Gibraltar.Ã
A Sporting Proposition by James Aldridge abridged by Fiona MacPhersonÃ
Read by Trader Faulkner
Story: The Happy Little King's Crown Jewels by MOIRA HERITAGE Presenters JEAN ROGERS and NICK HUGHES
Scripts by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Maugham the Storyteller The Vessel of Wrath by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM dramatised for radio by PETER LING
At a certain moment in the world's history the contrOleur of the Atlas Islands was Mynheer Evert Gruyter and he ruled the inhabitants with firmness tempered by a keen sense of the ridiculous. He had thought it a very good joke to be placed at the age of 27 in such a position of consequence, and at 30 he was still amused by it.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Tom Jones by HENRY FIELDING abridged for radio in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by FREDERICK TREVES (15) Producer GERRY JONES
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
NANCY wise makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER Producer SHEILA ANDERSON
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Kearton, Hugh Scanlon Lady Barnett, Robert Dougall Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Whitworth, Lancashire
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon, 11.5 am)
Introduced by Paul Vaughan Producer RICHARD GILBERT
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
The Well of Loneliness
Read by JUDY PARFITT (16)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by JOHN MASON and COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
Producer SIMON BRETT
preceded by Weather