6.22 FarmingToday: ROBIN RICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by Nancy Wise and Desmond Lynam
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit; Weather and programme news at S.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 7.45-7.56.
Read by Garard Green Patrick Taylor and Miriam Margolyes as Victoria Jones
ESP and Telepathy
Do you believe in them! What do scientists think oj ' paranormal phenomena
Phone in your questions on the mysteries of extra-sensory perception and telepathy to Professor Mark Hansel of the University College of Swansea and to Professor Arthur Ellison of the City University. London. Chairman George Scott
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
The programme that minds the consumer's business and investigates mailers that concern you. Presenter Roger Cook Producer ELIZAIBETH SMITH
NEM p 97: Father of mercies (BBC HB 189): Psalm 33, vv 1-12; Matthew 17, vv 9-23 (av); Take up thy cross (BBC HB 369)
Sometime During the Night.... by DENISE HAWTHORNE
Read by Bob Monkhouse
When someone slipped a powder into Sam Watkins 's drink at the office party, they could hardly have bargained for the consequences! Producer DAVID SHUTE
A musical account of the Suffragette Movement
Singers Pat Whitmore, Charles Young, The Charles Young Singers
Narrators Charles Chilton, Valerie Colgan, John Westbrook
Shoulder to Shoulder, a Radio Times Special about the Suffragette movement, 38p (including postage), from BBC Publications, [address removed]
The hotel manager-LEO mercier Reporter JANICE DICKERSON
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
Shopping Basket: MARGARET KORVING- with the new Shopping Basket Price Index - reports on prices and where the weekend bargains will be.
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Cumbrian Country People - talking about their way of life and its changing qualities.
2.0-2.2 News
The Moonlighters: concert pianist NAOMI DAVIDOV also plays for afternoon audiences among the potted palms.
A Sense of Proportion: a closer look at the way we vote. GABRIEL WOOLF reads
The Occupying Power (5)
Story: Three Cheers fur Harry by MARY CALVtRT
Selected for Friday
Samaritan: a play for radio by JOHN HYNAM
Wilfred Pickles as Stan Bates JOE: And she can make good soup, can Mother ... And didn' we agree Uiat she was Mother to us both?
SUE: Something like that . . . JOE: I wish you'd accept her ...
Producer
DAVID H. GODFREY (1972)
Plymouth Adventure by ERNEST GÉBLER:abridged by RICHARD CARRINGTON
Read by COLIN FISHER 10: Farewell
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)
William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services stationed in Cyprus, Malta and Northern Ireland.
Panel: NAN WINTON, TED MOULT, NEIL DURDEN-SMITH v A team representing RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus: TREVOR JORDAN, VIVIEN THOMAS, JACK BULLEN, TREVOR CAVE
Questionmaster PETER JONES
Questions set and programme devised by the producer MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
(by arrangement with the BFBS: Saturday's broadcast)
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Paul Burden
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television. Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
A spontaneous discussion by Malcolm Muggeridge
The Countess of Longford Rt Hon Richard Marsh
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Hampshire
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Nixon's resignation, 1974
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Downfall of a president – how Nixon fatally underestimated the power of the people versus the presidential powers he has just been forced to give up.
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer joy HATWOOD
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Burmese Days by GEORCE ORWELL Read by GEOFFREYBEEVERS 5: Elizabeth
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS , NIGEL REES. and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and others
Producer SIMON BRETT
preceded by Weather
12.1 am Inshore forecast