6.22 Farming Today: DAVID ADDIS
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV TONY JASPER
Introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson 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
(This may be replaced by a special Budget programme)
Residents James Burke and Isobel Barnett ; guests Irene Thomas and Paul Barnes.
Rohin Ray puts the questions aided bv recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Questions Set by MARGARET HOWARD Producer HELEN FRY
(This may be replaced by a special Budget programme)
Introduced by SHEILA TRACEY Producer TOM READ
NEM. p 9: Now thank we all our God (BBC HB 277); Psalm 8; Luke 19, vv 11-28 (NEB); God of grace (BBC HB 391)
Cockles and Mussels by Susan HILL: read by Betty Hardy ' Everything is so vulgar on the Lower Bay ... ' But in her heart. Miss Avis Parson felt that life as it should be lived was lived along the foreshore and up and down the streets of the Lower Bay ...
and investigates the humour of the subject with the help of Alfred Marks with the voices of NOEL COWARD, TONY HANCOCK
MICHAEL BENTINE , SHELLEY BERMAN Producers SIMON BRETT and BOB OLIVER ROGERS
Late Flood by LINDSAY BARRETT The setting, an African village. Everything I taught you was invested in me by the power of the father of this land, and the flood is the manifestation of this power.' (PAPA BLOSSOM)
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
Presenter Nigel Murphy Consumer Style
Pop-up, turn-over, table-grill or whatever: MOLLY PRICE-OWEN looks into value for money in toasters and their like.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcaslle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Rachael Heyhoe. captain of the England Women's Cricket team.
2.0-2.2 News
Bricks and Mortar - making a new house habitable. 3: electrical fitting and wiring.
Know Your Place: RACHEL ANDERSON, GRACE FOAKES and FRANCES BERRIGAN , middle children, discuss their family position with THORNTON PEARN.
Animals in Research: how are they used and why? Is it really necessary?
Queen of the Headhunters by SYLVIA BROOKE abridged by DOREEN ESTALL Read by CATHLEEN NESBITT
Story: Mandy's Peculiar Journey by MARGARET JOY
The Birds Fall Down
The novel by REBECCA WEST adapted as a serial in three parts by JOAN O'CONNOR with John Phillips , Lyndon Brook Julie Hallam , Terry Scully and Jill Balcon 1:Flight
1 My father doesn'want to be considered innocent if the Tsar thinks him guilty. My father can'quarrel with what the Tsar has done any more than he could quarrel with God.'
Producer JANE GRAHAM
Elsie and Doris Waters look back and recall, this week:
MAURICE CHEVALIER , MAX MILLER ARTHUR ASKEY and RICHARD MURDOCH , PETER DAWSON GERTIE GITANA , AL READ
Last of six programmes Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Big-hearted Arthur: cover story, pages 68-71
Tattered Banners by PAUL RODZIANKO
Read by FRANCIS DE WOLFF 8: Revolution
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcaslle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send discussed this week by Renée Houston. Charmian lnnes
Dame Eva Turner. Katie Boyle In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Johnny Mercer talks to ANDRt PREVIN about the art of lyric writing.
Producers ROSEMARY HART and ALEC REID
The Fells of Yew dale by JOHN TARRANT with Peter Armitage Valerie Georgeson and Brian Trueman
PAT: I've just been wondering about the next move. Will you be all right here while I go down to Coniston and dig out the nearest Mountain Rescue team? tom: Er ... I'd rather you didn'do that!
Producer TREVOR HILL (Manchester)
A Sportsman and Gentleman
Many a manly heart beats quicker at the name ' Bulldog Drummond.'
Amanda Theunissen persuades Lord Annan, Arthur Marshall and William Vivian Butler to reveal the boyish fantasies they still cherish about Sapper's brawny hero, who hurled himself on to the stage of popular fiction in 1920. Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Introduced by Paul Vaughan Producer richard GILBERT
10.10
Rt Hon
Robert Carr , mp for the Opposition
10.20' Douglas Stuart reporting
The Contract by ALLAN PRIOR (7)
preceded by Weather