6.22 FarmingToday: ROBIN HICKS
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN CONGDON
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.
Careers
For school-leavers and graduates the choice of careers is wide - but is enough being done to help students make a choice? How can you find out what a job is really like? Is it worthwhile staying on for the sixth form when you can earn good money at 16? Is a degree still the password to a good jobr Catherine Avent. Careers Guidance Adviser of the Inner London Education Authority, and Neil Scott , Director of Careers Advisory Service, University of Nottingham, are in the studio to answer your questions. In the chair Judith Chalmers. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
NEM, p 30: Praise to the Holiest (BBC HB 88); Psalm 22; Matthew 13, vv 10-23 (AV); My soul, there is a country (BBC HB 526) New Every Morning, £1.00 (cloth), 50p (paper), from bookshops
The Cat and the Fiddle by FRANK HEADLAND
Read by Robert Rietty
Over a period of years, Ovideo, the cat with the absurdly large nose, had endured with fortitude and dignity the undoubted disadvantages of sharing a cottage with Domenico Garganto. Now it seemed that matters were getting worse.
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited South Queensferry, W Lothian
Presenter Nancy Wise Home and Family
Choosing a School: how do you tell if a primary school is right for your child? What should you look for? PAT BENNETT has been finding out.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
300th edition
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cyril Fletcher In the chair McDonald Hobley Special guest Percy Edwards
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor
An Artist at Westminster: PEARL BINDER, wife of the Lord Chan cellor. describes to ELIZABETH WEBB the atmosphere of her official residence.
Reading your letters.
2.0-2.2 News
Yes. but suppose ... we have an accident: the second In a series of holiday hazards ARTHUR SANDLES hopes to avert. To be a Farmer's Girl: a Swiss school teaches useful skills for future farmers' wives.
When the Firm Goes West: reactions from families moved from London to Cheltenham. The Ziegfelds' Girl by PATRICIA ZIEGFELD: abridged in nine parts by JANET HICKSON read bv Margaret Robertson
The fabulous Flo Ziegfeld and his wife Billie Burke seen through the eyes of their daughter. (Music: A pretty girl is like a melody - Berlin)
Stories: The Walking House by SANDRA MEARNS and The Roller That Made a Good Road by EILEEN MATHIAS
The Regent: part 3. In which Denrv builds his theatre, in spite of all opposition.
Other parts GEORGE WOOLLEY Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (Birmingham)
visits Essex
Members of the Upminster and District Horticultural Society put their questions to
FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
Gardeners' Question Time (third series), 40p, from bookshops
Trilby by GEORGE du MAURIER Read by MARTIN JARVIS (7)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
Angus Prune proudly presents the return of the Wonder Show starring Tim Brooke-Taylor
John Cleese , Graeme Garden David Hatch , Jo Kendall Bill Oddie
THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Written by GRAEME GARDEN and BILL ODDIE. Producers
JOHN CASSELS and DAVID HATCH
John Tidmarsh
recalled by Ian Carmichael 4:South Pacific
A series of nine programmes with words and music from the hit shows that won the triple crown of acclaim in New
York. London and on screen during the past 30 years.
Written by MARJORIE BILBOW Producer BOBBY JAYE
A series of six true stories Narrated by René Culforth Written and produced by ALAN BURGESS
4: The Night of the Earthquakewith
Gilles Dattas , Blain Fairman
In February 1960 an earthquake almost completely destroyed the small Moroccan seaside town of Agadir killing 20,000 people. Many holiday-makers were trapped in terrifying circumstances: Sue Martin, a young American girl buried 60 feet down for nearly two days, knew that her chances of rescue were very small indeed.
A series of verse anthologies compiled and introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE and read by HARVEY HALL and GARY WATSON
4: Polyhymnia, the Muse of Hymns to the Gods
Poems and prose passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, from the early 15th century, and from Herbert, Hopkins. Eliot, Anne Ridler and William Empson.
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Presenter Nigel Rees
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
Douglas Stuart reporting
Sammy Going South
Read by Michael SPICE (7)
preceded by Weather