6.32 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50 med wave only Outlook
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 70-minute worldwide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 Travel news and What's On; Weather and programme news at 7.55.
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Talking Politics
ANTHONY KING in conversation with leading politicians about themselves and their lives in and away from politics.
2: RT HON PETER WALKER , MP
Party Lines (Labour): Monday at 8.10 pm BBC1
10.6 News
10.2 The Weekly World
DICK LEONARD reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by EDWARD COLE Narrator JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
ANNE SLOMAN , DAVID WALTER
NEM, p 1: 0 worship the Lord (BBC HB 267); Psalm 3; Matthew 20, vv 17-28 (AV): As pants the hart (BBC HB 451)
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad. Presenter Brian J. Ford Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
Presenter Roger Cook
Gardening Column: among today's topics. JOHN WARREN visits NANCY wise's garden to give hints on leaving the garden during a holiday and putting it in order for the autumn.
Panel: NAN WINTON
TED MOULT, NEIL DURDEN-SMITII v A team representing the Royal Navy, St Angelo , Malta GEOFFREY BOND, TONY DALTON MIKE CODNER , KEN SHOBBROOK Questionmaster PETER JONES
Questions set and programme devised by the producer MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
(by arrangement with the BFBS: rptd Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
The internationally loved American singer and actor:
Another chance to hear this programme which includes his songs, a poem, an extract from Othello and reminiscent anecdotes from DAME PEGGY ASHCROFT and ELISABETH WELCH.
Introduced by PETER LEE Written and produced by TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(First broadcast in Celebration)
Presenter Maggie Black
The week in Woman's Hour.
What is Progress? SUSAN TOFT. a sociologist who lives in a mud hut. talks to JOHN ARDAGH. Writers' Houses - they lived and wrote here (4): LINDSAY EVANS visits Hill Top. Sawrey. Lanes, home of Beatrix Potter. What the European papers say. Know Your Place: as the youngest of their families. ELISABETH BERESFORD and ELIZABETH WEBB discuss their family position with THORNTON PEARN. Ben Preserve Us by CHAIM BERMANT abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN read by CYRIL SHAPS (3)
Landscape with Lies by MICHAEL ROBSON with Anna Carteret , John Rye and Vernon Joyner
' I swear to you that I shall face him with this whole deception myself, and deliver him an ultimatum: to do what I've suggested, or have the truth about the water-colours made known throughout Cyprus.'
Producer IAN COTTERELL
Introduced by John Dunn
Arthur Poskett-man of destiny 8: Rhubarb Raft to Rio
With JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS and CAROLE HAYMAN written by BRIAN THOMPSON Producer TONY CLIFF
4.5 Behind the Scenes
GWYN RICHARDS goes backstage at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Stratford-upon-Avon. Producer DAVID SHUTE
4.25 Painting Competition
TONY HART asks you to paint a picture. Entries to: 4th Dimension, BBC. London W14 4WW
4.30 The Prince and the Pauper by MARK TWAIN
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (2)
4.45 Number Please
A nationwide game devised by VALERIE HODGETTS. 2: London
KATY JOHNSON and COLETTE DRUMMOND (Haverstock School, London NW3) challenge JAMES DEVANE and ANDREW HOOD (Hampstead School, London NW2). Chairman TOM COYNE Producer TONY SHRYANE Editor GRAHAM GAULD
A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. Presenter Gordon Snell Producer TONY GOULD
5.55
Weather, programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
America: Sunday, 7.25, BBC1. Book, £5.00, from bookshops
Six short stories dramatised and produced for radio by DEREK HODDINOTT 1: Ganymede
John Le Mesurier as The Man He arrived in Venice happy and contented with life. He left Venice shattered by an unusual experience destined to mark him for life.
(BBC World Service production)
Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island.
(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
When Cdr Geoffrey Bailey leaves the Navy and joins the Strode Shipping Company his first job is to trace the family's youngest son. But who is the mysterious Peter Strode and what is he doing on an island in the Indian Ocean?
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)
Margaret Powell
Growing Up 1924-1929:
MARGARET POWELL recalls hit music-hall and dance numbers of the 20s which remind her of her feelings in this emotional period of her life.
Producer CAROLE STONE (Bristol)
The Hill and the Plain
A meditation from Malvern led by simon BARRINGTON-WARD
preceded by Weather
