6.32 Farming Today: DAVID ADDIS
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 70-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 Talking Politics
ANTHONY KING examines the dilemmas of Opposition with RT HON WILLIAM WHITELAW. MP; RT HON ROBERT CARR. MP; RT HON ANTHONY CROSLAND , MP; RT HON REGINALD PRENTICE , MP; and DAVID STEEL, MP.
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
J. W. THOMPSON reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by DAVID WILLMOTT Narrator PETER DONALDSON Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE ANNE SLOMAN. TOM READ
New Every Morning, p 5: The day of Resurrection BBC Hymn Book 112): Psalm 47: I Thessalonians 2. vv 1-8 (RSV): How glorious Sion's courts appear (BBC HB 493)
(Shortened edition of Friday's broadcast) ‡
Adaptations of six of the author's famous short stories 4: The Chamois adapted by MICHAEL BARTLETT with Christopher Cazenove as Stephen and Anna Cropper as his wife When Stephen decides to go to Greece it is for one reason only: to rid himself of a secret fear - a fear so painful that he will try anything to conquer it.
Producer DEREK HODDINOTT
(BBC World Service production)
Presenter Roger Cook You and Your Time
Food Column: DEREK COOPER
Chairman Robert Robinson 11: Wales
(Details as Friday, 6.15 pm)
Brain of Britain. 35p, from bookshops
12.55
Weather, programme news
A spontaneous discussion by Ian Mikardo , MP Peter Kirk. mp
Jacky Gillotl. Alex Jarratt Chairman D avid Jacobs from Hampshire
There'll be all that free time: MARGERY Bi. YTH went on a pre-retirement course.
Who said that? First of six quiz programmes compiled and presented by IRENE THOMAS : answering the questions today, IRENE HANDL and RUSSELL HARTY. What the European papers say. Whatever happened to the little dressmaker? FRANCES BERTHELSEN had great difficulty finding out.
A Child in the Forest by WINIFRED FOI.EY: abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE-WILKINSON Read by JUNE BARRIE (2)
A Child in the Forest. £2.25, from 25 April from bookshops
After Dunkirk by T. d. WEBSTER After the horrors of the evacuation from Dunkirk the remnants of a Regular Fusilier Regiment are billeted in a South Yorkshire mining village for a well-deserved respite. Most of the miners and their families are friendly and helpful at first - most of them ... at first.
Producer ROGER PINE
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 At Your Service
TONY ECCLES and his team of young reporters investigate the part played by science and technology in providing goods and services.
This month: A Car Factory Producer MICHAEL GREEN
4.25 Postbag: STEPHEN BONE and SHARI PHILLIPS read some of your letters.
4.30 A Likely Lad by GILLIAN AVERY read by DAVID MARLOWE (5)
4.40 Forecast: the radio game devised by UN MESSITER
Your host Tony Blackburn Special guest Peter Glaze with some Scouts and Guides Producer RICHARD WILLCOX Editor GRAHAM GAULD
A second chance to hear the best from th? week's editions. Introduced hv Nigel Rees Producer TONY GOULD
5.55
Weather. programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKK
Patricia Routledge, actress.
With Roy Plomley
(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
by Eden Phillpotts. With Nigel Stock
Samuel Sweetland, widower, of the village of Little Silver, Devon, man of substance and self-importance, decides to choose himself a wife from his own local short-list.
Other parts Moyra Babington, Esmond Rideout, Charles Mander.
Producer Brandon Acton Bond
9.58 Weather
Frank Field
Timothy Raison. mp
Professor John Cohen in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (Manchester)
Family Prayers conducted by IAN MACKENZIE
preceded by Weather