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
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)$
(This may be replaced by a special Budget programme)
NEM, p 13: High in the heavens (BBC HB 9): Psalm 66, vv 1-11; Luke 19, vv 28-40 (NEB): 0 for a thousand tongues (BBC HB 278)
Fidelity by JOE BURNS
Read by Harold Goldblatt
' I suggest, Mr Bellamy , that you go home now, look at things afresh, examine the situation at closer quarters. This Mr McIntosh , you mentioned .. find out if he really is planning to elope with your wife.' Producer PAUL MULDOON (Northern Ireland)
Chairman Jean Metcalfe
The Baby Doctor
Professor Hugh McLaren Reporter JANICE DICKERSON Producer JENNY DE YONG
Presenter Nigel Murphy Health and Welfare
You call that fun? JANICE DICKERSON examines a variety of sporting injuries.
12.55
Weather, programme news
William, Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Bricks and Mortar: making a new house habitable. 4: heating and ventilation. Reading your letters.
Stockpiler: a progress report on the investment game for schools.
Old Films on TV: GORDON GOW looks at the line-up. A Snapshot of a Dog by JAMES THURBER : abridged and read by BLAIN FAIRMAN
Story: Jenny Visits the Doctor by G. J. COPLEY
Presenters this week:
GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKEN Scripts by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Four Days to Kill by ROBERT BARR A six-part serial with Edward de Souza and Geoffrey Frederick 6:The Last Day
Producer CHARLES MAXWELL
Jack meets another celebrity-about-town,
The Duchess of Bedford Producers MICHELL RAPER and HUGH PURCELL
Chic mistress departs: page 4
Tattered Banners by PAUL RODZIANKO
Read by FRANCIS DE WOLFF
9: The Siberian Expedition and Fate of the Imperial Family
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
from the TV series based on the characters created by A. j. CRONIN
Doctor's Lines
(Repeated: Friday. 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday, 4.5 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
with Paul Scofield as Alexander Solzhenitsyn in a biographical feature on the man who during his lifetime has become the USSR's most acclaimed writer and its most notorious opponent; who has been exiled twice, once to the borders of China and now to the West; and who, if he has nothing else in common with the Soviet regime is, at 55, the same age.
After the programme, at 9.0*, Ian McIntyre chairs a discussion on Solzhenitsyn and the cultural opposition in the USSR.
Introduced by Nigel Rees Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Contract by ALLAN PRIOR Read by MICHAEL BRYANT (8)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather