6.22 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV PAUL BARBER
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.
by JOHN MASTERS
Read by MIRIAM MARGOLYES (12) X
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Shoes and Feet
Should my 11-year-old daughter be wearing platform solesf Are stretch socks bad for the feet? I have very narrow feet: where are the shoes for met I'm getting a bunion: what can I dot My new shoes have split: can I get a refund' I don' like synthetic shoes but leather is so expensive.
Put your questions to Christine Long , British Footwear Manufacturers Federation; Martin Lee , a production manager of women's shoes; and Arthur Swallow, senior lecturer, Chelsea School of Chiropody.
In the chair Barbara Myers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 9; The Lord of heaven confess (BBC HB 478); Canticle 6, part 1: Matthew 21, vv 10-22 (AV); Father, who on man dost shower (BBC HB 389)
The Wife by STUART CLOETE
Read by Peter Tuddenham
'Do?,' he said, when he'd done laughing. 'I'll tell you what to do, Bill. Run away with the girl. Elope. Nothing like starting in double harness with a romantic elopement. Carry her off, my young Lochinvar.'
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Hemingford Abbots, Huntingdonshire
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
Some amusing and entertaining moments taken from his many broadcasts kept in the BBC Sound Archives.
Presenter Nancy Wise
When should you start to blow your own trumpet? SALLY THOMPSON visits a London primary school where the music teacher believes in an early start.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
Write to You and Yours, BBC,
Broadcasting House, London VIA 1AA
'twixt Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and David Nixon. Paul Jennings
Tune twisters from Steve Race In the chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Good Bookshops: is the writing on the wall? Michael Barber reports.
2.0-2.2 News
Leisure and Pleasure: pursuits, entertainments, places to go.
Behind the Mind (3): Dr Martin Woodhouse on genius.
Gabriel Woolf reads The Occupying Power (12)
Personal Philosophy from Woman's Hour (discussions with personalities including Yehudi Menuhin and Lord Soper), 25p, from bookshops
Story: The Timid Little Black Hen by I. E. ELLSWORTH : part 1
by EVELYN WAUGH : dramatised in 11 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Part 3 with Hugh Dickson Norman Rodway
Patrick Troughton and Hugh Burden as Narrator
It would be a travesty to say that Guy suspected Apthorpe of lying. His claims to distinction-porpoise-skin boots, a High Church aunt in Tun-bridge Wells, a friend who was on good terms with a gorilla - were not what an impostor would invent in order to impress. Yet there was about Apthorpe a sort of fundamental implausibility. with PETER BALDWIN , ALAN DUDLEY
TONY MATTHEWS , NIGEL LAMBERT and SIÔN PROBERT
Producer JANE GRAHAM
A year of Gardeners' Question Time
KEN FORD recalls some of the places visited and questions asked during the past year.
With FRFD LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and AI.AN GEMMELL
Producer TONY CLIFF
Gardeners' Question Time (third series). 40p, from bookshops
The Big House of Inver by SOMERVILLE and ROSS Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE
2: Kit Prendeville and Shibby
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcaslle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Angus Prune proudly presents the return of the Wonder Show starring Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese , Graeme Garden David Hatch , Jo Kendall Bill Oddie
THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Written by GRAEME GARDEN and BILL ODDIE. Producers
DAVID HATCH and JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
recalled by Ian Carmichael 8: The Sound of Music
A series of nine programmes with words and music from the hit shows that won the triple crown of acclaim in New York, London and on screen during the past 30 years. Written by MARJORIE BILBOW Producer BOBBY JAYE
I brought thee up like a Cockney and thou hast handled me like a cock's comb (LYLY: 1578) A musical account of a famous London character
Children of Cheape, hold you all still,
For you shall have Bow Bell rung at your will
(MEDIEVAL POEM)
Singers PAT WHITMORE
CHARLES YOUNG. CHARLES CHILTON THE KERBSIDE SERENADERS Narrators HARRY LANDIS
JOHN HOLLIS , CHARLES CHILTON
I scorn to let a Bow Bell Cockney put me down
(ROWLANDS: 1600)
Written and narrated by CHARLES CHILTON
(Repeated: Friday, 11.5 am)
A series of verse anthologies compiled and introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE and read by HARVEY HALL and GARY WATSON 8: Calliope, the Muse of Epic Poetry
Poems by Keats, Marvell, Milton, Tennyson, Coleridge and Byron.
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
A nightly review of books, films, plays. broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Peter France Producer SARA DUNANT
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Burmese Days by GEORGE ORWELL Read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS 12: Jealousy
Radio 4 International Business Report; Market Trends
Reflections by SIR GEOFFREY JACKSON 2: South
' Inextricably and indissolubly, for various reasons I seem somehow to be bonded, as it were, to South America.... And against all the rules of geography and politics, I positively insist that South America begins quite far up on the map ... '
preceded by Weather
