6.22 FarmingToday: 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.
Read by MIRIAM MARGOLYE ;S (14)
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
NEM, p 17; Come. let us to the Lord our God (BBC HB 487); Canticle 3; Matthew 21, vv 33-46 (av); Child in the manger (BBC HB 45)
from Northern Ireland The Crab Tree by BRYAN MACMAHON
Read by Elizabeth Begley
When, on a night of strong wind, the spreading crab tree keeled over and collapsed, the widower and his son prepared to clear away the tree, for it lay directly across the by-road that led to the little thatched farmhouse.
Producer PAUL MULDOON
Jeanne de Casalis Mrs Feather
Series compiled by EDWARD TAYLOR
Presenter Nancy Wise
Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink! The recent discovery of nitrates in our water has prompted GEORGE LUCE to find out just how safe our drinking water is.
Conceived, written and misread by Tim Brooke-Taylor
Barry Cryer , John Junkin With THE DENIS KING TRIO Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor
After Finer: MARJORIE PROOPS and PROFESSOR 0. R. MCGREGOR , members of the Finer committee, discuss its findings on one-parent families.
2.0-2.2 News
Focal Point: BARBARA MYERS introduces some current ideas and inventions from the world of science.
The Seven Ages of Arthur Marshall (3): And then the lover, sighing like furnace ... Two Sides of the Story: a mother and her unmarried daughter give their reactions to the daughter's pregnancy. The Occupying Power by EVELYN ANTHONY abridged by MYRA BEATON read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Story: The Story of the Enormous Elephant, the Huge Hippopotamus and the Tiny Tortoise by ANNE ENGLISH
The Worriers
The life and times of a broadcaster-about-town Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
The Big House of Inver
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNS 4: Clytagh Races
William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael
says Do You Remember?
A new series of five intriguing legal mysteries edited by c. H. ROLPH
The Case of Lord St Leonards written by DAVID Williams
HAWKINS: Now, Miss Sugden, I come to the crucial point. What did you do when it became plain that the will-box contained no will?
CHARLOTTE: I simply sat down and wrote out my father's will of 1870 from memory. with the voices of JILL BALCON , DOUGLAS BLACKWELL DAVID BRIERLEY , GERALD CROSS WILLIAM EEDLE. MARTIN FRIEND SIÔN PROBERT, MANNING WILSON Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Repeated: Monday, 23 Sept)
The stereotype of the voluntary social worker is a middle-aged, middle-class woman helping those less fortunate. But nowadays it's just as likely to be a long-haired teenager spending his spare time decorating an elderly neighbour's home or a young graduate caring for the homeless down-and-out.
Brian Morris looks at the changing pattern of voluntary effort, and how it knits into the social services after Seebohm.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH (Manchester)
Helping the hopeless: page 5
Presenter Iain Johnstone
John Tusa reporting
Burmese Days by GEORGE ORWELL Read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS
14: The ' Conquering Hero '
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Reflections by SIR GEOFFREY JACKSON 4: West
' The whole coastline Is so lovely, almost in exaggeratedly bad taste ... now our noses are pointed firmly towards the far west of the movies, so civilised, so tamed now, so they say. Or is it? '
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
preceded by Weather
