1.22 Farming Today: ROBIN BICKS
6.40 Prayer for the Day
BT REV JEROME HODKINSON , OSB
Introduced by John Timpson and Nancy Wise
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.
On the Rubbish Tip
Great Expectations
Some parents have their children's lives planned for them almost before birth; others only get agitated about their prospects at this time of year when examination results are due. How do parental ambitions affect the children?
Parents and children discuss these points with a youth counsellor and a doctor.
Introduced by PADDY FEENY Producer THENA HESHEL
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.
Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 13; Stand up. and bless the Lord (BBC HB 268); Psalm 116; Matthew 12, vv 1-13 (av); Love of the Father (BBC m 522)
Ivy by ELISABETH BOND
Read by Denis McCarthy
' Say ... say if he doesn' stop cluttering the place with plants, that Public Health will have to get rid of him. Be firm. Diamond, be firm.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
A Nartist Cove Named
Lear Spike Milligan and Charles Causley recite and delight In the limericks and nonsense longs of Edward Lear. Producer PAMELA HOWE
The Vagrant Heart by ROSEMARY ANNE SISSON
Two rival clans of ' Travellers ' dispute their rights to a pitch beside a busy main road. Out of familial strife a boy-and-girl romance is born - but, unlike Romeo and his Juliet, these young people discover a happy ending.
Producer
ARCHIE CAMPBELL (1970) J
Presenter Nigel Murphy Consumer Style
Shops of the future: ID HARRISON looks ahead to the hypermarket.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
One Man's Meat
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
(Tuesday broadcast)
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Elisabeth Soderstrom , the Swedish soprano.
2.1-2.2 News
Answering your letters on antibiotics: DR ROBERT ANDREW.
Sounds of the countryside In July: RAY GOODWIN with his recordings.
Life Inside: a prostitute talks to BARRY COLEMAN about prison life and its consequences. COLETTE O'NEIL reads
The flours Before Dawn (11)
Story: Young Hedgehog Follows a Smell by VERA RUSH-BROOKE
Presenters this week
GLADYS WHITRED, GARY TAYLOR
Scripts by GLADYS WHITRED Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
The Fox: the novel by D. H. LAWRENCE adapted as a play for radio and produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
' I was by the edge of the wood above the pond. You were tending the fowls. I was carryIng my gun. I lowered my eyes for a moment and, suddenly I saw the fox.'
An affectionate portrait of Lodwig Koch. the much loved wildlife recordist. Highlights, too. of him as musician, naturalist, father and friend, practical joker, and even as a member of ' Dad's Army ' - a private in the Home Guard. Introduced by BRUCE CAMPBELL Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
Trilby by GEORGE DU MAURIER Read by MARTIN JARVIS (3)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report i.55 Weather, programme news
with Anona Winn , Jay Adamson
Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
Peter Jones in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Bepeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Roberton and Ihe Orpheus
Sir Hugh Roberton , founder and conductor of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, was born a century ago this year. In this tribute ROBIN RUSSELL Introduces music recorded by the choir and traces its evolution from an unlikely birth to a famous death.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Going Up by IAN D. CHESSMAN
' I've always been anxious to climb to the very top of my chosen profession, to prove to myself that I really have a vocation for driving a lift. I want to reach the pinnacle of elevatormanship. Maybe even to get to the dizzying heights of being selected Liftman of the Year.'
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (Leeds) (Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
The start of the Round 3 contests between the resident London team and teams in different parts of the British Isles.
LondonvMidlands
Presenter Nigel Rees Producer joy HATWOOD
John Tusa reporting
Sammy Going South by W. H. CANAWAY
Read by MICHAEL SPICE (3)
Radio 4's International Bust-ness Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
