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.* 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.
Read by MIRIAM MARGOLYES (13)J
East, West. Home's Best
Even in the happiest family there comes a time when the children need to strike out on their own. How can this be achieved with a minimum of disturbance to both generations? Or is a degree of conflict not only inevitable but necessary as well?
Paddy Feeny leads a discussion between young people and experts
Producers SALLY THOMPSON PAT TAYLOR
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories: introduced by SHEILA TRACY. Producer TOM READ
nem, p 13: Jesus, where'er thy people meet (BBC HB 263); Psalm 66, vv 1-3, 12-17; Matthew 21. vv 23-32 (AV); Love divine (BBC HB 329)
Wax by GKHALD BULLETT
Read by Robert Eddison
And when he wanted to sit down in the road and forget everything, forget this new-minted morning and return to his world within, they all three pressed savagely upon him. and held him up, and the woman's face became an angry grinning mask.
The Lightest Touch
To be the Grand Old Man of modern English literature, and at the same time its most captivating humorist; to be loved by millions of readers as a genius of frivolity, and revered by fellow-writers as a master of style ...
The joys of reading P. G. Wodehouse are celebrated by Rt Hon Sir Dingle Foot , QC, Derek Parker and Sam Pollock. Producer PAMELA HOWE
Hollow Victory by DEREK WEt.LMAN
For 19 years the Colonel has been virtually unchallenged as the Member of Parliament for Barthmoor. Now he faces his first serious opposition - from one of his own party.
Producer JOHN CARDY
Presenter Nancy Wise
0 wot a picture - wot a photograph! But whose picture? DAVID I.LOYD pinpoints the legal aspects.
Creeping Metrication-how far and how fast are we going metric?
Big Denl
(Mondays broadcast) 2
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
(Tuesday's broadcast)
Presenter Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Alan Ayckbourn. playwright and director of the Theatre-in-the-Round, Scarborough.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
The Person My Childhood Made Me (5): Leslie' Thomas talks to Elizabeth WEBB about some lessons that lasted.
It doesn' just go with lettuce: CHRISTINE HOUSELEY Serves cucumber in different ways. GABRIEL WOOLF reads
The Occupying Power (13)
Story: The Timid Little Black Hen by E. E. ELLSWORTH : part 2
A Wreath for Old Graves by CHARLES THOMAS with Michael Harbour
Nerys Hughes and John Bull
In 1936 many young men thought the Spanish Civil War was the most important issue in history .. ,
Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Andrew Sachs is in ' Habeas Corpus ' at the Lyric Theatre, London)
says Do You Rememberf as he looks back over his years as an entertainer and" the friends and colleagues among whom he has spent and continues to spend his very active life. Today he recalls ELTON HAYES
The Navy Lark
JOYCE GRENFELL. SEMPRINI
Round the Horne with KENNETH HORNE. KENNETH WILLIAMS and HUGH PADDICK IVOR NOVELLO Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Thursday, 7.30 pm)
The Big House of Inver
Read by DENYS Hawthorne 3: The Weldons and Peggy
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Norman Hackfofth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
Peter Jones in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1 30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Kenneth Horne
Round the Horne and back -to Much-Binding In The Marsh
Richard Murdoch introduces an appreciation of a unique radio entertainer, illustrated with recordings from his many broadcasts.
Producer BOBBY JAYE
The Worriers: a new radio comedy by GWYN THOMAS
The case of Jack Sharp , a gun-happy shepherd, versus the voters of Ferncleft. Sharp's sheep are accused of despoiling Ferncleft gardens and Ferncleft's dogs are accused of ' worrying ' Sharp's sheep.
Producer Lorraine DAVIES
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
London v West (Round 4) (Sunday broadcast)
Presenter Nigel Rees Producer TONY GOULD
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Burmese Days by geohge ORWELL Read by Geoffrey BEEVERS 13: The Attack on the Club
Reflections by SIR GEOFFREY JACKSON 3: East
1 These rains were vital to the old man and his sheep.... if he waited, he would find all the grazing he wanted, and we would be treated to that brief explosion of the desert into a kind of ephemeral heaven of spring flowers which of course are the authentic lilies of the field....'
preceded by Weather