6.22 Farming Week: presented from Wales by GERRY GADSDEN
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
Introduced by Robert Robinson and John Trmpson
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 med wave only Travel news. What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER ; Weather and prog 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
by VIRGINIA WOOLF: read by BETTY Hl'NTLEY-WRtGHT (6)
Aided by Harriet Crawley , Benny Green. Barry Norman , Lance Percival , Esther Rant -zen, Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl and other regulars. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
talks about gardens open this summer in aid of the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society and the Royal Gardeners' Orphan Fund.
Booklet, Gardens to Visit, lOp from bookstalls
' For several seasons we have had kestrels nesting in our window-box on the 17th floor of this block of flats, only a few inches from my favourite chair ...': the starting-point for one of the Wildlife team's discussions this morning. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer n)LYS BREESE (Bristol) Questions to Wildlife, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 84: Thy mercy, Lord (BBC HB 482); Psalm 142; 1 Thessalonians 5, vv 1-11 (rsv); Dear Lord and Father (BBC HB 351)
The Bicycle by HARRIET GRAHAM
Read by John Graham
George Lumley had two passions in life. One was bicycles and the other was chrysanthemums ... Miss Johnson's deep gold hair was cut rather like one of George's prize mop-headed chrysanthemums. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday, 1.15)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Nancy Wise Work and Money
Leaving the Forces: what are the career opportunities for ex-Service personnel? MARGARET KORVING investigates.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and singer Patricia Routledge. Show more
Patricia Routledge, actress, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island.
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Just Wild Figs and a Few Olives: JAMES AND HELEN MC-NEISH have spent a year writing in the South of France.
Goodbye to the Broom: JOHN WHITELY , a roadsweeper, ponders on his retirement.
Women in Crisis: BRENDA KID-MAN talks to ELEANORE, a woman who suffered two crises at the same time: serious illness and her husband's infidelity. Shroud for a Nightingale by p. d. james: abridged in 13 parts by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by Mary Wimbush (1)
At the John Carpendar Hos pital someone is murdering the nurses! (Music: Arnolds Fifth Symphony)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Spider's Web by DENISE SHELDON
An archeologist excavating a site discovers a skull. The skull, however, is modern....
The Pass Beyond Kashmir by berkei.y MATHER: abridged for radio in ten parts by STUART FORSYTH
Read by Garard Green
A map hidden in one of the high passes of the Himalayas during World War II and a drunken ex-Indian Army major living in a Bombay slum may hold the key to untold wealth. But it is the early 1960s: relations between India and Pakistan are strained and China is tightening its hold on Tibet. 1: Bargain in the Bazaar Producer JOHN SCOTNEY
Robert Williams with PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
based on the original TV series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
featuring John Laurie, Arnold Ridley and Graham Stark, Jack Watson
With John Snagge
Adapted for radio by Michael Knowles, Harold Snoad
(Rptd: Wednesday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael
Johnny Morris goes island-hopping. out .of season, in the Mediterranean. 6: Corsica
Last programme in the series Series producer BRIAN PATTEN
by Susan Hill; adapted for radio by GUY VAESEN with
The 'strange meeting' of two young subalterns in the First World War - John Hilliard, returned to his battalion from sick leave, and David Barton, as yet untried by battle, full of charm and commonsense.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
(Rptd: next Sunday afternoon)
A nightly review of the arts and science.
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. Introduced tonight by Paul Vaughan Producer ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
So Big by EDNA FERBER: abridged in 15 parts and read by Liane Aukin
In 1888 Selina. a city girl, arrives to teach school in a Dutch community on the outskirts of Chicago. She marries a poor vegetable farmer and on his death is faced with the problem of educating their son, nicknamed So Big. Producer JOHN G. PITMAN
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Four programmes on the problems of present-day stress and some of the solutions to them. Introduced by MICHELL RAPER with comments from DR JAMES HEMMING 1: Telephone Help
preceded by Weather
