6.22 FarmingToday: ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by John Tlmpson 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 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. Editor ALASTAIR OSBOKNE
by JOHN MASTERS
Read by MIRIAM MARGOLYES (10)
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The NHS and Private Patients
What place should there be for private medicine in the National Health Servicet Is the pay-bed dispute a symptom of a wider crisis in the NHST
In this special people-to-people edition ring [number removed]and discuss with other listeners your views on the NHS and private patients.
Chairman George Scott Calls from 8.0 am
The programme that minds the consumer's business and investigates matters that concern you. Presenter Roger Cook
NEM, p 122; My God, my King, thy various praise (BBC HB 13); Psalm 40; Matthew 20. vv 1-16 (AV); Sing Alleluia forth in duteous praise (BBC HB 282)
from Scotland
Big Erchie by JIM WAITE Read by Gerry Slevin
Big Erchie he was called then. He had a body too big for his brain, but that didn'matter to boys of the school. He was a kind of god to them ... Producer MICHAEL SHAW
Narrated by René Cutforth
(Shortened version of Tuesday's broadcast)
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
Shopping Basket: MARGARET KORVING - with the new Shopping Basket Price Index - reports on the way prices have changed and where the bargains will be at the weekend.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
from RAF Brize Norton
Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze try to guess objects presented by their hosts
Peter Jones in the chair
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle Editor ANDREW BOYLX
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
From Festival Director to the Buses: what Keeps HENNY KING on the move?
2.0-2.2 News
Step-relationships: a happy stepmother looks at why they sometimes go wrong.
Art for the North West: HELEN KAPP is buying it this year. GABRIEL WOOLF reads
The Occupying Power (10)
Story: Poltle Pig and Farmer Triggs' Best Shirt by NANCY NORTHCOTE
Presenters AURIOL SMITH and GARY TAYLOR
Scripts by the producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Selected for Friday
The Great Steeplechase Race: a comedy by MATTHEW WALTERS with Peter Baldwin Rosemary Martin John Westbrook
Applethwaite was the fly in the ointment - always had been. Champion of this, prizes for that. But now Applethwaite was in for a pretty nasty shock.
Producer DAVID GEARY (1971)
Snow Lion by J.M. MARKS Read by GARARD GREEN 5: Stronghold
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
Panel: NAN WINTON
TED MOULT, NEIL DURDEN-SMITH v A team representing the Army. Dhekelia Area, Cyprus: PETER WIGLEY SMITH
BILL MAYLING , JOHN CANE PAT CONNOLLY
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)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLESY Editor DEREK LEWIS
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television. Producer JANET THOMAS
(Repeated: Saturday, 10.30 am)
The true story of the Atlantic Wall in Normandy and the plot to destroy it: by ROBERT BARR adapted from Richard COLLIER'S book Ten Thousand Eyes
Garard Green as the Storyteller 1: The Wall and the Mirror
Other parts JOHN CAZABON, SAM DASTOR, DEREK SEATON
Producer CHARLES MAXWELL
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBT Editor DEREK LEWIS
Burmese Days by GEORGE ORWELL Read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS 10: The Proposal
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