6.22 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam
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, including the latest World Cup news from Germany; Today's Papers at 7.35' and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 Editor AUASTAIR OSBORNE
Sleep
How much sleep do we really need? What causes insomnia and how dangerous are sleeping pills? How important are dreams? What exactly happens during sleep?
Phone in your questions on sleep to Dr Ian Oswald , Reader in Psychiatry at Edinburgh University and author of many publications on sleep. Chairman George Scott
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
The programme that minds the consumers business and investigates matters that concern you. Presenter Roger Cook Producer WALTER WALLICH
NEM, p 50; Our Lord, his Passion ended (BBC HB 161); Psalm 139; Matthew 4, vv 1-11 (AV); Oft in danger, oft In woe (BBC HB 363)
Evans the Police by DONALD DOUGALL
Read by Douglas Blackwell
How I remember him - Mr Evans the police - yes, he was always Mister Evans to the whole village. Above all, I remember those spotless white gloves he wore, summer and winter. With those gloves he administered swift punishment to the young offender. It was accepted - it worked - and it never, brought newspaper headlines. Producer LORRAINE DAVIES (Wales)
With that defiant gesture of Sir Henry Newbolt's young officer on the North West Frontier of India, Robin Holmes introduces an anthology of patriotic and imperial poetry which until quite recently was required reading and learning in all our schools. with Hugh Burden and Valentine Dyall
Producer ROBERT CRADOCK
The journalist William Forrest recalls the gaiety of Warsaw in the summer of 1939 just as the Nazis were preparing to launch their attack.
Presenter Derek Cooper
You and the Law. Sudden Death. When does an inquest : need to be held and what are the coroner's responsibilities? IAN BLACKSHAW explains. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
Peter Jones in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle Editor ANDREW BOYLE
from 2.0 Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Lancashire Cookery Club: EVELYN ROSE and MARGARET TRAVIS discuss summer food.
2.0-2.2 News
Composer in Residence: DAVID cain in Cumbria.
Back to Work: judi GOODWIN visits a course designed to smooth the way.
RICHARD LEECH reads Anthony Trollope (8)
Story: Wigaly Worm's Holiday by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD
Selected for Friday
Reunion by JOAN O'CONNOR based on a story by FRED UHLMAN with Sean Barrett
Brian Hewlett and Cyril Shaps ' That you had enemies - yes - I understand that ... You a Jew and they young Hitlerites. But in spite of all, you can'not have had a single friend.'
Producer JOHN TBEOCHARIS (1972)
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
The World Cannot Hear You by GWYN THOMAS abridged in ten parts by STUART EVANS
Read by DOUGLAS BLACKWELL (10) Producer ROGER PINE
(Starting next Monday: Slay-Ride ' by Dick Francis , read by Timothy West )
The news magazine presented by William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain
Chairman Robert Robinson Second Round. 7: Scotland
JOYCE LIGERTWOOD (Stirlingshire) teacher
MICHAEL ELDER (Edinburgh) actor
ISLAY SHANKS (Inner Hebrides) retired schoolmaster
Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
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Brain of Britain, 35p, from bookshops
Nick Ross presenting world news and views
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television.
Introduced by DAVID DUNHILL Producer MADEAU STEWART
(Repeated: Saturday, 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by C. A. Joyce
Roderick MacFarquhar , up Janet Fookes , mp Des Wilson
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from the Isle of Wight
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to: Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
December Bride
Read by MARGARET D'ARCY (7)
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and bill MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and others
Producer JOHN LLOYD
preceded by Weather
12.1 am Inshore forecast