6.22 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day MARJORIE BIBBY
Introduced by Nancy Wise
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 . 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.
Read by GARARD GREEN (3)
Presenter Paddy Feeny Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child
Parents and teachers nowadays tend to spare the child instead, but the dilemma behind the maxim remains. Is permissiveness in the child's best interests? How authorMarian is it desirable or possible to be? Do schools have too many rules and regulations?
Parents, children and teachers have a second look at questions of law and order at home and at school.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories: introduced by BRYAN MARTIN. Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 89; 0 for a closer walk with God (BBC HB 333): Psalm 67; Matthew 16, vv 13-23 (av); Lift up your heads (BBC HB 178)
Cap Trick by PAUL FEAKES Read by Cyril Shaps
The fortune-teller had told my wife her face would never grow old. Unfortunately, she also told her something else ... Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
The Diary of a Nobody
Mr and Mrs Charles Pooter of The Laurels are pleased to meet their friends and admirers, Sir John Betjeman , Paul Jennings , and Charles Causley. Lupin may look in, with Daisy Mutlar ; and Mr Padge will take the best chair.
Producer PAMELA HOWE
The Rabbits Gambit by DANNY GREENSTONE
ANDREW: I've spent fl2 entertaining the most obnoxious female I have yet to come across ... and you've picked the wrong one!
Producer DICKON REED
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
There's a Calerpillar in the Peas: NANCY WISE and DAVID TENCH look at some of the regulations controlling the food we eat.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
A Break for Sir Gregory
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Fred Poolev , President of the Royal Institute of British Architects and London's controller of planning and transport.
2.0-2.2 News
The White Eagle of Hampshire: MARTIN MUNCASTER follows a trail which leads to ' the first temple of the new age ' at New Lands in Hampshire.
Letter to Another Woman: about a child in hospital, from SUSAN HARVEY.
Arts Notebook.
I GABRIEL WOOLF reads
The Occupying Power (3)
Story: My Natiahty Little Sister Does Cutting Out by DOROTHY EDWARDS
Saturday Hack by PETER FIELDSON with Edward Kelsey , Aubrey Woods and Sean Arnold
1 For you suddenly to become manager of a First Division side - well, it takes some getting used to.'
Alf Adler finds that it takes him even longer to discover why he was chosen in the first place.
Producer PETER NOVIS
Evelyn Dainty is an unmarried nurse in her 50s who lives alone in a country cottage, but claims she is never lonely. Although she has no blood relations, she has over the years acquired an international family of several hundred members.
MARGARET HOWARD tells the story of this remarkable woman and her ' children.' with contributions from some of the family members in Hong Kong, India and Germany.
Producer THENA BESHEL
Plymouth Adventure Read bv COLIN FISHER 8: New Plymouth
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
Peter Jones in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
And without ANDRES SEGOVIA his mastery and his influence the guitar might never have been considered the serious musical instrument that it has become.
To celebrate the 80-year-old master STEVE RACE introduces recordings of Segovia playing and talking about his life. Producer NATALIE WHEEN
A play for radio by Sandra Shippy
with Betty Hardy as Rosie
'I ain't a-going to talk to anyone. Never do. They all thinks I should be in an old folks home. And I ain't a-going to tell them about you, young feller. So you needn't worry. Remind me a bit of my Harry, you do. Now you get back to sleep. Get some rest.'
London v North i Round 3)
Presenter Nigel Rees Producer SARA DUNANT
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Burmese Davs by GEORGE ORWELL Read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS 3: The Doctor
Four talks by WILFRED DE'ATH
3: Autumn -the best club in the world
preceded by Weather
