6.22 Farming Week: presented from the Royal Showground at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, by DAVID RICHARDSON
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
Introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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 Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
STEVE RACE finds some of today's events reflected in yesterday's recordings in the BBC Sound Archives.
(Rptd: Tuesday, 11,45 am)
Aided by Harriet Crawley , Benny Green , Barry Norman , Lance Percival , Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Robinson. Fritz Spiegl Producer MICHAEL EMBER
' On moonlit nights I have seen owls following our old ship down the Channel attracted, no doubt, by the many rats which used to scamper along her decks ...' The team comment on sea-going owls and other wildlife observations. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
NEM, p 79; Rejoice, 0 land (BBC HB 433); Psalm 148: Matthew 6, vv 1-15 (AV): For the beauty of the earth (BBC HB 272)
Safety Match by IVOR WILSON Read by Hugh Burden
Between speeches and handing out prizes Jolyon would take the opportunity to inspect the annual catch sitting before him. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday, 1.15)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter George Luce Work and Money
The Jackpot Goes Up: as from today, the top premium bond prize will be £75,000. TED HARRISON has visited ' Ernie. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is harpist Osian Ellis. Show more
Osian Ellis, harpist
12.55 Weather, programme news
Robert Williams
Editor ANDREW BOYLB
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Second-hand Finds: JUNE KNOX-MAWER and BENNY GREEN on the pleasures of bookshop-browsing.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Don'Sweep the House at Night: SHIRLEY DEANE learns about the customs of Ambon, one of the Spice Islands.
Understanding Medicine: DR ROBERT ANDREW discusses the use-and abuse-of antibiotics. RICHARD LEECH reads Anthony Trollope by JAMES POPE-HENNESSY (14)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLR Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Granny's Goldfish by JEAN YOUNG
The Poacher bv H. BATES
Smith's Gazelle by LIONEL DAVIDSON : abridged in five parts by RON BARON
Read by Andrew Sachs (1)
The species of gazelle known as Gazella Smithii is thought to be extinct. But a one-eyed Arab shepherd, a murderer, hiding in a ravine near the border of Israel, discovers a pregnant female of the species and believes God has given him the task of raising a herd. His belief is encouraged by two boys, one a Bedouin, the other from an Israeli Kibbutz. Producer DAVID SPENSER
(Andrew Sachs is in ' Habeas Corpus ' at the Lyric Theatre, London)
Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLB
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Great Guns
LENNOX-BROWN: You mean we're to talk to the Army and sort out this dispute?
SIR GREGORY: That's right; If you've got that into your head, you have it in a nutshell.
NORMA RONALD , RONALD BADDILEY JOHN GRAHAM written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wed, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLERY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A series of five programmes written and presented by Edgar Lustgarten in which he reconstructs some of the most notorious murder cases of the past 60 years. 1: Mother's Day
A macabre case of murder in Scotland in 1926. Producer ROGER PINE
Life-for-a-lifer: page 5
Dear Liar by JEROME KILTY with Isabel Dean as Mrs Patrick Campbell and Cyril Cusack as Bernard Shaw
This play is based on the exchange of letters that passed between two theatrical comets from 1899 to 1939.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING (Repeated: Sunday, 2.30 pm)
A nightly review of books, films. plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer SARA DUNANT
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEDY Editor BRIAN BLISS
The Heyday bv BAMBER GASCOIGNE abridged for radio in ten Instalments by FRANCES HITCHINS Read by Anthony Hall (1)
When Grandmother dies. Benjy decides to find out the truth about her heyday in the Edwardian Theatre.
Producer DICKON reed
preceded by Weather
