22 Farming Today: DAVID ADDIS
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV ROY TREVIVIAN
Introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
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
says Thanks for the Memory ...to you. and adds a few reminiscences of his own Producer SHEILA ANDERSON
(Revised repeat from Radio 2)
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments.
Introduced by SHEILA TRACY Producer TOM READ
NEM p 122; For all thy saints, 0 Lord (BBC HB 228 Psalm 40; Mark 3, vv 7-21 (AV); Ten thousand times ten thousand (BBC m 253)
Goodnight, Madame Teresa by MALCOLM HAZELL
Read by Garard Green
Oh. I didn'advertise for a wife ... it wasn'my advertisement at all. It was the mater's. At least, it wasn'hers really ... Let me explain ... Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
John Galsworthy
DEREK PARKER presents a portrait of the Edwardian novelist who created The Forsyte Saga. He discusses Galsworthy's work with LORD snow Producer SHEILA ANDERSON
The Birds and the Bees by PAM TICKELL
' Sally, wouldn'you rather have a little baby like this than all the jobs in the world? Deep down. I think you do want one. Go on, Sally, hold her if you'd like to ...'
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (Leeds)
Presenter Nancy Wise Consumer Style
Shredders and Slicers: guillotines and cleavers in your kitchen or safe, efficient choppers, mixers, slicers. etc? MOLLY PRICE-OWEN investigates what is value for money in kitchen gadgets.
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12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
medium waveonlyfrom 2.0 Presenter Sue MaeCreger Guest of the Week: Barry Foster
2.6-1.2 News
May Day: GEORGINASMITHlooks at the way it was.
Going. Going, Gene!: how to restore yesterday's auction sale bargain.
Lunch at 12.30: two sisters. AILEENand BLANCHZ, who are in their 70s. share their midday meal with two local priests. MARY WIMBUSH reads
Shroud for a Nightingale (8)
Story: Charlie'sBusyDay by DAVID SPIVEY
by Patricia Griffiths
With Patricia Routledge as Pat
Life, they say, begins at 40 but Pat has waited until she's 45 before she decides to began again. But can her husband and family adjust to her extraordinary new image...?
Brian Johnston takes a wayward glance at his lifetime of sportive adventures. To see fair play he seeks the help of his wife PAULINE and the playwright WILLIAM DOUGLAS-HOME , and some of his friends: COLIN COWDREY, SEYMOUR DE LOTBINIÃRE, JOHN ELLISON , JIM SWANTON and WILLIAM WHITELAW
Producer ROGER THOMPSON
The Pass Beyond Kashmir by BEHKELY MATHER
Read by GARARD GREEN
8: Wickedness in High Places
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A special edition recorded at the Institution of Electrical Engineers to mark the centenary of the birth of Marconi on 25 April. with Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Nerman Hackforth ,Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
Peter Jones in the chair Producer JOHNCASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12 27 pm)
Gerald PriestLand presenting world news and views
on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
A Composer by the Grace of God
In these words the conductor Hans Bichier described the great Czech composer Dverak, who died 70 years ago today. Tonight we celebrate his
« achievement in a programme written by his compatriot and fellow-musician Vilem Tausky Narrator GEOFFREY WHEELER
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON (Manchester)
The Invisible Export by PETER FIELDSON with
Geoffrey Marlow , under-cover ninny: tougher than a bowl of tapioca pudding, faster than an airborne custard pie, stronger than a pint of sarsaparilla. Is it a bird? Is it a ...? ' No, it just the way he walks. Big Geoffrey. Kung Fu King of the Galsion Avenue weight-watchers: known to his friends as Marsh ... Marsh Marlow.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
London v North (Round 1)
Introduced by Peter France Producer JOY HATWOOD
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
SoBig by EDNA FERBER Read by LIANE AUKIN (8)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
