S.22 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day MARJORIE BIBBY
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 f.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.
Read by GARARD GREEN (2)
The New Mother and her Baby I left hospital feeling totally unable to look after my new baby. She cries all the time: it this normal? My husband seems to resent our baby son. The problems facing the young mother with her first baby often outweigh the pleasures. And many mothers worry unnecessarily about their babies' health and feeding habits.
Put your calls about the first three months of a baby's life to Dr David Harvey , consultant paediatrician, and Valerie Packer , a health visitor,
Barbara Myers is in the chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
NEM, p 21; The Father's sole-begotten Son (BBC HB 67); Canticle 9; Mark 9, vv 1-13 (NEB); Christ, above all glory seated (BBC HB 121)
by John Unsworth
Read by Peter Bartlett
Dad had taught Mum to drive, but he didn't expect her to pass the test ...
Thirsk, Yorkshire
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
My eyes aren't what they used to be... Maybe not, says Elizabeth Smith - but have you tried Large Print Books?
Write to You and Yours, [address removed]
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cyril Fletcher In the chair McDonald Hobley Special guest Janet Brown
From an idea by jimmy EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm) (McDonald Hobley is in ' Move Over Mrs Markham - at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth)
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Where will all the playgroups go when the Government's plans for nursery education are carried through? JOHN BROWN finds out.
2.0-2.2 News
Every Day Is Market Day: a stroll through Guernsey's covered market, Les Halles. Behind the Mind - 1: DR EDWARD
DE BONO thinking about thought. Well, did you ever ... ?: MAEVE BINCHY, MICHAEL GREEN, and IRENE THOMAS did - and they're not a bit sorry. GABRIEL WOOLF reads
The Occupying Power by EVELYN ANTHONY (2)
Story: Auntie Bel's Kitchen Drawer by JILL ROWE
by EVELYN WAUGH
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A year of Gardeners' Question Time
KEN FORD recalls some of the places visited and questions asked during the past year
With FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Producer KENNETH FORD
Gardeners'Question Time (third series), 40p, from bookshops
Plymouth Adventure by ERNEST GEBLER
Read by COLIN FISHER
7: Patience and Prayer
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Angus Prune proudly presents thereturnoftheWonderShow 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 presenting world news and views
recalled by Ian Carmichael 6: My Fair Lady
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 BILDOW Producer BOBBY JAYE 4
A series of six true stories Narrated by Rene Cutfortb Written and produced by ALAN BURGESS
6: Seven Years Solitary with Mary Wimbush as Edith Bone
Edith Bone , born in Budapest, trained as a doctor, was sent to Russia in 1919 on a Red Cross Mission. She became a Communist courier and settled in Britain in 1933. Returning to Hungary in 1949 as a journalist. she was arrested. Objective: to set her up as a Western spy in a highly publicised fake trial.
In solitary confinement in a dark and filthy cell. it looked as if she would stay there for ever. But both captors and victim were to discover realities about themselves which would change their philosophies and their lives.
A series of verse anthologies compiled and introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE and read by HARVEY HALL , ELIZABETH PROUD and GARY WATSON - 6:
Erato, the Muse of Love Poetry Poems by Drayton. Shakespeare, Rochester, Christina Rossetti. Hardy, Yeats, Graves and Larkin.
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Presenter Peter France
Producer KATHLEEN CHEESMOND
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Burmese Days by GEORGE ORWELL Read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS 2: The European Club
Four talks by WILFRED DE'ATB 2: Summer - visitors versus resident*
preceded by Weather
