6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN SMITH
Introduced by Robert Robinson and Michael Clayton
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
Wildlife of an African City
The sounds and scenes of a year in the past challenge the memories of residents James Burke and Isobel Barnett and guests Nancy Wise and Terry Wogan.
Robin Ray puts the questions aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Questions Set by MARGARET HOWARD Producer HELEN FRY
BBC Home correspondents: introduced by SHEILA TRACEY Producer TOM READ
NEM. p 67; Praise, 0 praise our God and King (BBC HB 441); Psalm 146; Luke 21, v 29, to 22, v 6 (NEB); Forth in thy name (BBC HB 406)
The Invisible Witness by ANTHONY GILBERT
Read by Preston Lockwood
I noticed the old woman because she always occupied the same seat in the park... 7
and investigates the humour of the subject with the help of Alfred Marks
(MARK TWAIN) with the voices of ALAN BENNETT , MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN , TONY HANCOCK Producers SIMON BRETT and BOB OLIVER ROGERS
Conservatory Tea by JOHN KIRKMORRJS with Gladys Spencer as Mrs Gore Fox , a wealthy widow who exercises through her money an unhealthy power over her two middle-aged daughters. When the younger one announces her intention of getting married one expects Mrs Gore Fox to oppose it ...
Producer GLYN DEARMAN
Presenter Lyn Macdonald Consumer Style
Faster by Foot? You and Yours finds out the quickest way of getting across Britain's major cities, with the help of teams in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester.
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
Introduced by Mary Marquis
Welcome Mat: hotel and catering career.
2.0-2.2 News
Nursing: today's new recruits. Reading your letters.
Know Your Place: as the only child of their families, PATRICIA KERSHAW and IRENE THOMAS talk to THORNTON PEARN.
IAN RICHARDSON reads
Scenes from Provincial Li/e (3)
Stories: Billy's Bike by joyce RUSHBY and Too Many Bears 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 2: The Dark Forest
When you boarded this train, Miss Laura, you left behind the world where police are any good. I left it long ago and so did your grandfather. And now he and I must talk, for the lives of all three of us in this railway carriage will depend on what we say.'
Producer JANE GRAHAM
For centuries nursery rhymes have been handed down - yet few people question where they come from or what they mean. least of all young children, who have some peculiar theories about the meanings of their favourite rhymes.
Paul Barnes , together with a group of six-year-olds, examines the origin and meaning of some nursery rhymes and hears the children's own interpretation of them.
Producer KATE WHITEMAN
Watership Down
Read by JOHN ROWE
3: The Strange Warren
William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Anona Winn, Joy Adamson, Norman Hackforth, Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
Peter Jones in the chair
Producer John Cassels
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
The Opera Tenor
An Italian tenor called Sbigoli burst a blood vessel and died, 150 years ago, while attempting to sing a high A. Nowadays a high A isn'at all unusual: like high-jumpers, tenors have been going up and up and up. Nigel Douglas introduces recordings of the great tenors of the century, including ENRICO CARUSO , BENIAMINO GIGLI , LAURITZ MELCHIOR, RICHARD TAUBER , JOHN MCCORMACK and PLACIDO DOMINGO. and tries to define what it is that makes the tenor voice the most exciting sound in the world of opera. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
' The Best Messiah in the Business '- Heddle Nash : Fri, 11 am
In Sickness and in Health by DAVID ELLIS
' Every time a thief breaks into a house and steals something, Sgt Gibbons tries to make out Harry responsible. And every time he's wrong.'
Producer DAVID H.GODFREY
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
London v West (Round 1)
Introduced by Peter France Producer joy HATWOOD
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Contract by ALLAN PRIOR Read by MICHAEL BRYANT (12)
Radio 4's International Buatness Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
