6.50 medium wave only
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
7.10 On Your Farm
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook ‡
Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 60-minute worldwide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 Travel news and What's on: Weather and programme news at 7.55.
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with DAVID WOOD
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
COLIN VALDAR reviews what the weeklies have to say: with illustrations read by ROY WILLIAMSON
Narrator JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
BERNARD TATE , TOM READ
New Every Morning, p 79: 1 to the hills (BBC HR 459); Canticle 6, part 2; Luke 22, vv 39-53 (NEB); Lord of all being (BBC HB 11)
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Adaptations of six of the author's famous short stories 2: The Blue Lenses adapted for radio by JOAN O'CONNOR with Vivien Merchant as Marda West Marda is about to regain her sight: till now the people around her have been disembodied voices ...
Producer DEREK HODDINOTT
(BBC World Service production)
Presenter Roger Cook You und Your Time
Gardening Column: MICHAEL CILLIAM talks to JOHN WARREN and RALPH GOULD about what's new in seeds this year and how to plant them, and they answer questions about what went wrong with last year's crop: also, what to be doing this weekend and a gardening club for children.
9: Scotland (i)
(Details as Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
Lord Soper, Tim Rice, Katharine Whitehorn, Norman St John Stevas, MP
Chairman: David Jacobs
Introduced bv Judith Chalmers The week in Woman's Hour. Northern guest: cartoonist Bill Tidy
Entertainment Round-Up: GORDON cow reporting.
What the European papers say. Madam Editor: YVONNE EVANS of the Radcliffe Times.
The Visit by DENISE ROBERTSON Read by ALEX GLASGOW
Sole Witness by MICHAEL BRETT
A bank robbery - a getaway car - and a gun-happy crook. The gang had raided other banks before and got away with it. but this time there was a witness....
Florence Mason HILDA SCHRODER
Producer BETTY DAVIES
Introduced by John Dunn Admiral Skylark
Tales of a Space-age Twit with GEORGE LAYTON as everyone: written by GAIL RENARD Producer SIMON BRETT
4.5 In My Opinion
SHCILA SCOTT. FRANK O'FARRELL and TED MOULT give their views on questions put by children of the Lower School of Monk's Park Comprehensive, Bristol. Producer ANTHONY SMITH
4.30 A Likely Lad by GILLIAN AVERY read by DAVID MARLOWE (3)
4.40 Forecast: the radio game devised by IAN MESSITER
Your host Tony Blackburn
Special guest Leslie Crowther Producer RICHARD WILCOX Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Best from the week's editions Introduced by Gordon Snell Producer PATRICIA BRENT
5.55
Weather, programme news
by Al.ISTAIR COOKF.
John and Roy Boulting, film makers, with Roy Plomley
(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
By Malcolm Stewart
Barry Foster as Napoleon, Julian Glover as Bernadotte.
By 1799, ten years after the outbreak of the Revolution, France had been reduced to a deplorable state by the directorial government. The need for a change was obvious - a change that would give Napoleon the opportunity to fulfill his destiny. With Sam Dastor, Anthony Hall, John Bull, David Sinclair.
Producer Harry Catlin
(Rptd: Monday. 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
The Bishop of Stepney, Jocelyn Barrow, Professor Sheila Allen in conversation with Brian Redhead
A meditation on the eve of Holy Week by REV MICHAEL MAYNE
preceded by Weather