6.22 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam
Including at 5.50 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 margolyes (15)
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Fringe Medicine
Cures or quackery? How seriously should we take unconventional treatment outside the established medical profession? Phone in your questions and views to Brian Inglis. author of Fringe Medicine, and to a hospital consultant.
Chairman George Scott
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
The programme that minds the consumer's business and investigates matters that concern you. Presenter Roger Cook
NEM, p 21; It fell upon a summer day (BBC hb 71); Psalm 15; Matthew 22, vv 1-14 (AV); Father of peace (BBC hb 488)
from Wales: Rest Content by PAMELA COCKERILL
Read by Ray Smith
One week s retirement and already the walls were closing in. Suddenly a door opened.../ Producer
MARION GRIFFITH WILLIAMS
(Tu^>s's broadcast: shortened)
Presenter Nancy Wise
Shopping Basket: MARGARET korving with the new Shopping Basket Price Index.
A life on the ocean wave...: rules for small-boat sailors.
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
Introduced from Bristol by Daphne Hubbard
Anything for a Laugh:
Leo Franklyn , master of farce, With PAMELA HOWE.
2.0-2.2 News
'From Minnie, with Love' JUNE KNOX-MAWER reads the letters of a young army wife during the Indian Mutiny.
Rather a Large Family: BRIAN GEAR meets MRS BEVAN and her children.
The Long Cat by COLETTE abridged by BA MASON read by MONICA GREY
Story: Ben's Noisy Afternoon by BARBARA WILLIAMS
Selected for Friday
Jane: a comedy of the 20s adapted by LIANE aukin from the short story by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM with Carleton Hobbs Nicolette Bernard and Mary Wimbush
' I remember very well the occasion on which I first saw Jane Fowler. I must confess that I find it hard to believe my recollection has not played me a fantastic trick ... '
Producer RONALD MASON (1969) followed by an interlude
The first of six programmes recalling some of the highlights of this popular programme since it began in October 1948: including the voices of Baroness Stocks, Lady Violet Bonham Carter , Lord Boothbv, Malcolm Muggeridge , A. G. Street , Ralph Wightman and Dr J. Bronowski
Presented by MICHAEL BOWEN
The Big House of Inver
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNS 5: Nessie Tells a Story
William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television Producer LIZ BLUNT
(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 2: Operation Marie-Louise
Marcel Girard. FREDERICK TREVES Eugene Meslin ..... JOHN GABRIEL René Duchez ......... VICTOR LUCAS Gilbert Renaull. ..LEwIS STRINGER Mme Renault EVA STUART Other parts JOHN CAZABON SAM DASTOR , DEREK SEATON
Producer CHARLES MAXWELL
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Gerald Ford, the new man in the White House, 1974
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Campaign biographies, and some new revelations about President Gerald Ford's past come to light, including the fact he was christened Leslie King Junior.
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Rptd: Sat, 6.15; Sun, 9.15 am)
In this special edition from the 28th Edinburgh International Festival Ian Mclntyre presents a review oi one of the established highlights, the Military Tattoo, and of the new productions of plays, opera and films. Producer ALAN BAYDOCK
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Burmese Days by GEORGF, ORNN ELL Read by GEOFFREY beeyers 15: The Church
Producer Margaret ETALL
It is ... a brand new comedy show It is ... the voices of Mary Adams, Jeremy Browne, Jonathan Canter, John Lloyd, Griffith Rhys-Jones... the music of Nic Rowley, Nigel Hess, Tim Brutton, Julian Smedley ... and the words of Jeremy Browne, Jonathan Canter, John Lloyd
preceded by Weather
12.1 am Inshore forecast