6.22 Farming Today: DAVID ADDIS Producer PETER ESTALL
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV BARNEY MILLIGAN
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 Sportsdesk at 7.25 and 8.25, including news from Germany of the build-up to the 1974 World Cup: Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.
from 9.20 Helping the Disabled
I'm, terrified about tvhat will happen to my handicapped boy when I'm dead.
We were advised to get a handrail fixed near the lavatory but we couldn' afford it. Do you think I'm entitled to the Attendance Allowance?
Many disabled and elderly people manage extremely well despite their handicaps-others need advice, encouragement and practical help to overcome the problems of day-to-day living
Put your calls on all aspects of disablement to Mary Greaves. OBE. disabled for over 60 years, and George Wilson , of the Central Council for the Disabled
Sue MacGregor is in the chair Produced bv the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
BBC Correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM. p 9: All things bright and beautiful (BBC HB 3); Psalm 65: Hebrews 11, vv 1-10 and vv 13-16 (NEB); Lord of the worlds above (BBC HB 462)
Nan Dreward 's Daughter by A. R. RAWLINSON
Read by John Westbrook
... Tom has always maintained that no one in their senses would ever believe his account of what happened on the motorway through Blayhurst Deep on the night of the new moon....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Wincanton, Somerset
STEVE RACE finds some of today's events reflected in yesterday's recordings in the BBC Sound Archives.
Presenter Nancy Wise Home and Family
Is University Worth It?: as another generation of students complete their exams, HUGH PURCELL , visits three universities and asks students: was university as you expected? Was it worth it?
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cardew Robinson In the chair
McDonald Hobley
Special guest Liz Fraser
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Thursday. 6.15 pm) (McDonald Hobley is appearing in ' Move Over Mrs Mark -ham' at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth)
12.55 medium ware only
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
(Monday's broadcast)
from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor
The Person Mv Childhood Made Me - 4: Lord Shinwell talks to ELIZABETH WEBB about some lessons that lasted.
Reading your letters.
2.0-2.2 News
Lunch with the Blairs: a New-castle family invite Woman's Hour listeners to share their lunch and discover something of life in this Metropolitan Borough.
The Pleasure of Music: NOR-DOFF AND ROBINS demonstrate their therapy for autistic children.
Tea at G-unters by PAMELA RAINES abridged by EVANGELINE RANKS lead by CORINNA MARLOWE i Final instalment)
Story: Joanna Jones 's Garden by BETTY FALK
Adapted in eight parts by OLIVIA MANNING from two of ARNOLD BENNETT 'S novels with Graham Armitage as Denrv Machin 1: The Card
visits Cambridgeshire
Members of the Harston, Hauxton and Newton Horticultural Society put questions to FRED LOAPS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMEI. L
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
The World Cannot Hear You
Read by DOUGLAS BLACKWELL (2)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Alfred Marks challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.27pm) (Alfred Marks is appearing at Chichester Festival Theatre)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael
The Bigger the Better?
The problems of economic growth. Do we need it? Can we afford it? Might we be better off, and happier, if we concentrated on quality rather than quantity?
Ring Robin Day to put your points and questions on the type and size of the community, for living and working, in which we would feel most at home, to Ernst Schumacher , former Economic Adviser to the National Coal Board and author of the book Small is Beautiful.
[number removed](16 lines) will take questions from 6.0 pm onward
Sir John Betjeman the Poet Laureate introduces and reads with Jill Balcon and Gary Watson, love poetry, including:
John Keats La Belle Dame sans Mirci
Robert Browning The Laboratory Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee Thomas Hardy The Ruined Maid W. B. Yeats John Kinsella's Lament for Miss Mary Moore
Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb Recorded before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Presenter Peter France Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
Douglas Stuart reporting
My Cousin Rachel
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK (12)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather