6.22 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV LESLIE TIMMINS
Introduced by Michael Clayton 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.
Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child
Parents and teachers nowadays tend to spare the child instead, but the dilemma behind the old-fashioned maxim remains. Is permissiveness in the child's best interests? How authoritarian is it desirable or even possible to be? Do schools have too many rules and regulations?
Parents, children and teachers exchange views on these and similar questions.
Introduced by Paddy Feeny Producer SALLY THOMPSON
BBC Home correspondents and reporters: introduced by BRYAN MARTIN. Producer TOM READ
NEM. p 62; The Lord doth reign (BBC HB 476); Psalm 107, vv 31-42: Matthew 14, vv 23-34 (AV); Sing praise to God (BBC HB 18)
The Bargain by SYLVIA HAYMON Read by Carleton Hobbs
He slipped me a knowing sideways look over his glass, and commented: ' Couldn' mistake her for Dolly, eh? Old Ferdy's wife. Good Lord! Don' tell me you don' know Dolly? Believe me, old chap, I know what I'm talking about. We were lovers for years.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
The Glow-Worm in the Grass
Looking at nature and reading about nature are pleasures celebrated by Nigel Stock , P. J. Kavanagh and John Barralt as they choose their favourite down-to-earth' writers. Producer PAMELA HOWE :
The Dreamers by SEAN WALSH
Liam is certain he's for the big break-but the first thousand is always hardest to make. As his friend tells him: 'What would we be but for the dreamin'? A pair of Irish labourers on a buildin' site.' with
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN (Northern Ireland)
Presenter Jeanine McMullen
Young People and the Law: from every side there's criticism of the way the law deals with young offenders. What's gone wrong?
With other items and your letters in What's On Your M' -d?
Sky High
12.55 medium tvave only
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
Story: The Bun Lady by PHYLLIS PHILLIPS
The Nonconforming Nonconformist
GEOFFREY PARKINSON 'S autobiographical comedy tells the story of his early religious life and the love affair that ended it.
MR BOOTH: It was easier to go about doing good in Biblical days. Where would you find a leper in Epsom?
MRS ARMITAGE : There are still lepers about.
MR BOOTH: Not enough to keep Christians going full-time. with Geoffrey Beevers as Geoffrey Parkinson
ANNA BERENSKA (harmonium) Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
John Ebdon. fond as he Is of children and animals, finds that on occasions they can be more than a little beastly.
Surprisingly, he discovers that OGDEN NASH , JOHN BETJEMAN , HILAIRE BELLOC and other poets appear to agree with him. Producer NATALIE WHEEN
Plymouth Adventure Read by COLIN FISHER 3: The Open Ocean
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 medium ware only Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Norman Hackfoflli , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
Peter Jones in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Frank Sinatra
From the swooning swing era to the cynical 70s.... He's doing it his way.
PETER CLAYTON looks at and listens to a remarkable career. Producer BOBBY JAYE
Last in the series of Father Brown stories to celebrate the centenary of the birth of G. K. CHESTERTON adapted by ARCHIE CAMPBELL with Leslie French as Fr Brown and William Rushton as Chesterton 5: The Mirror of the Magistrate A loaded automatic pistol was not exactly what one would expect to find on a judge's library desk. Fr Brown finds out what it was doing there.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING (Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
London v Scotland (Round 3) (Sunday s broadcast)
Presenter Jacky Gillett Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther
Read by MARAH STOHL (3)
preceded by Weather
