6.32 Farming Today: David Addis
6.50 Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
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6.55 Weather, programme news
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6.32 Farming Today: David Addis
6.50 Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
(Medium Wave only)
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Introduced by Michael Aspel including at 7.50 med wave only Travel news and What's on: Weather and prog 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
(Next edition: Tues, 10.5am)
9.30 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Robert Carvel.
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
Michael Molyneux reviews what the weeklies have to say.
(Medium wave only)
nem, p 34; Blest be the everlasting God (BBC HB 486); Canticle 8; Wisdom 7, vv 1-14 (rsv); Rejoice! the Lord is King (BBC HB 128)
(Medium wave only)
(Medium wave only)
(Friday's broadcast)
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad. Presenter Brian J. Ford who says: "A scientist's discoveries should be more accessible to other scientists as well as the public. And not just data, but the ideas and feelings of scientists as people. The aim is to inform - to generate interest I hope."
(New series)
(Medium wave only)
Presenter Roger Cook You and Your Time
The Grenadier and the Rabbit Fish: these deep-sea fish may not look so good but in years to come may replace the more familiar cod or plaice on the fishmonger's slab, TED HARRISON reports.
Chairman Robert Robinson
David Blackman (Berks): scientist; Stephen Griffiths (Hampshire) computer programmer; Mark Broadhead (Norfolk) insurance clerk
Including Beat the Brains
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
Brain of Britain, 35p, from bookshops
12.55 Weather, programme news
(Medium wave only)
A spontaneous discussion by
Lord Hill
Rt Hon Richard Marsh
Helene Middleweek
Patrick Cormack , mp
Chairman David Jacobs
Presenter Sue MacGregor
The week in Woman's Hour.
Have Scholarship - Will Travel: winners of Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowships look back with Pat Rowe at ambitions fulfilled.
What the European papers say. Who said that? Fourth of six quiz programmes. Answering the questions today, Valerie Jenkins and Roy Hudd
Gardening: Geoff Amos
A Child in the Forest: (5)
by Winifred Foley: abridged by Virginia Browne-Wilkinson.
Read by June Barrie.
A Child in the Forest, £2.25, from bookshops.
(Medium wave only)
(Medium wave only)
by William Smethurst.
'By the grace of France! A King of Cards, rotting out his life on the charity of France and Rome. Madam, your son is everything his subjects look for. An English Prince! Well-made, brave, virtuous...'
Song by pupils of West House School, Birmingham
Producer Anthony Cornish (Birmingham)
(medium wave only)
Introduced by John Dunn.
4.0 Admiral Skylark
Written by Gail Renard.
Tales of a Space-age Twit with George Layton as everyone.
4.5 Time Well Spent
Things to do, to make, to collect... and a competition set by magician John Wade in which the wildest answers win the prizes.
Introduced by Brian Trueman.
4.25 New Films
From New York Sarah Forbes looks at the films which will be coming your way soon.
4.30 Liz: Part 2
A comedy serial play in six parts by Anthony Buckeridge.
(medium wave only)
A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. Introduced by Nigel Rees.
5.55 Weather, programme news
(medium wave only)
by Alistair Cooke.
(Friday's broadcast: repeated again on Sunday, 9.15 am)
Antoinette Sibley, prima ballerina, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island.
(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)
(Antoinette Sibley broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
Records introduced by Richard Baker.
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
(Stereo)
A story about Marie Lloyd by Daniel Farson and Harry Moore.
In the play Marie says: 'Most people lead dreadful lives, I try to make them laugh and I don't see the harm in that.'
Ten years after her death in 1922, C.B. Cochran wrote: 'Of the great artists of the Music Hall whose genius I have admired, Marie Lloyd stands out as the greatest of all. The delicacy of her indelicacies was exquisite.'
(Repeated Monday: 3.5 pm)
(Stereo)
Dr Roger Poole Bob Kernohan
Dr Jack Dominian in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Saturday-evening Prayers conducted by REV COLIN SEMPER
preceded by Weather