6.22 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day BILL DRUMMOND
Introduced by John Timpson
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.
Pause for Thought, a selection of talks from Thought for the Day and Pause for Thought, 25p, front bookshops
by John Masters
Read by Miriam Margolyes
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM. p 118: All ye who seek for sure relief (BBC HB 289); Psalm 46: Matthew 19, vv 16-30 (av); Who would true valour see (BBC HB 371)
The Fairy and the Chartered Accountant by JOE COOPER Read by Geoffrey Banks
'Many happy returns of the day!' piped Jom the fairy, dangling his green-hosed legs from the luggage rack of the first-class carriage. Anstruther lowered his Financial Times, fixing a non-seeing gaze on the lush upholstery opposite. He could have sworn he heard a tiny voice.
Producer HERBERT SMITH
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Robb Wilton again
I said Whut He said You/ Series compiled by EDWARD TAYLOR
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
Exercise is bad for you - or is it? JAMES WILKINSON expends some mental effort on looking at how much physical effort is good for us.
Conceived, written and misread by Tim Biooke-Taylor
Barry Cryer , John Junkin With THE DENIS KING TRIO Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor
A World for Man... and Beast?: two practising wildlife conservationists, Philip Wayre and Phil Drabble. discuss the changing roles of man and animals in the world today.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
The Seven Ages of Arthur Marshall. 2: The whining schoolboy with his satchel and shining morning face ...
Trouble on the Terraces - could disappear if Coventry Football Club's family centre is a success. Elizabeth Berg reports. Gabriel Woolf reads The Occupying Power by Evelyn Anthony (9)
Story: The Lovely Adventure by MARY BRYAN
Listen with Mother Stories , an illustrated anthology, E2, from bookshops
A Test to Destruction
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The life and times of a broadcaster-about-town Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Snow Lion by j.M .MARKS Read by GARARD GREEN 4: Dragon
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
'twixt Isobel Barnett Eleanor Summerlield and David Nixon , Paul Jennings
Tune twisters from Steve Race in the chair Roy Plomley
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Doris Archer's Ambridge Diary, 25p, from bookshops
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday, 4.5 pm)
After the summer break Any Questions? will be back on 27 September and Any Answers? on 3 October. In the meantime, beginning 23 August, Michael Bowen presents six selections from 26 Years of Any Questions?: Fridays at 4.5
A new series of intriguing legal mysteries edited and introduced by C. H. Rolph.
An account of the astronomical Thierry Inheritance.
Gabriel Woolf as narrator.
In Corfu in 1654 Jean Thierry made a carefully drawn-up will, leaving a great fortune to his rightful heirs. When he died, little did he suspect that over three centuries later his estate, inflated to massive proportions, would still be claimed by his descendants.
(Repeated: Monday, 11.5 am)
(next week: The Case of Lord St Leonards)
Women today are bombarded by images of other women: poised, fashionable, sophisticated-and slim. 'Slim is beautiful ' - but the urge to lose weight can get out of control. Anorexia Nervosa is a condition which, if untreated, can lead to girls dieting till they die. It is a disease of the affluent society - and there is evidence that it is on the increase. Linda Blandford examines this complex illness. What are the symptoms and the causes? Who suffers from it? What kind of treatment is being offered? Producer JENNY DE YONG
Hazardous slimming: page 4
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer joy HATWOOD
Douglas Stuart reporting
Burmese Days by GEORGE ORWELL Read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS 9: The Shooting Trip
Four talks by MIKE RUSSELL 4: New and Broader Vistas
preceded by Weather
