6.22 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day GEORGE TARGET
Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
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 TONY BRITTON (18)
The Dotterel
Parents, Keep Out!
How far should parents involve themselves in school life? Is their role merely to raise money for the library and the new swimming pool, or does it extend to influence on the syllabus as well?
Paddy Feeny chairs a debate between teachers, parents and young people on the importance of parental involvement. Producer PAT TAYLOR
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country.
Introduced by SHEILA TRACY Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 34: 0 sacred head (BBC HB 533); Canticle 8; Matthew 23, v 37, to 24. v 14 (AV); Come, ye faithful (BBC HB 123)
The Buttonhole by JOE BURNS Read by Mary Wimbush
' I want a carnation,' Mr Minster said, ' to wear in my buttonhole.' Nurse Lightbody smiled. ' I know of a lovely little florist called Daphne. We'll get one there for you.' 'I'm not wasting my money buying buttonholes,' he said. Producer EILEEN CAPEL
Slices of Life
P. J. Kavanagh and Patricia Beer have both written highly praised autobiographies - The Perfect Stranger and Mrs Beer 's House. They explore the ambiguous pleasures of reading about other people's lives with Arthur Marshall , a witty reviewer of such works.
Producer PAMELA HOWE ‡
The Man Who Grew Chrysanthemums by MALCOLM HAZELL
When a professional assassin decides to give up and turn his hand to the growing of chrysanthemums, he discovers retirement is not that easy.
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN (Bristol)
Presenter Jeanine McMullen
So You Want to Start a Club: a look at some of the problems and complexities involved.
Don'Sign Without Reading: RONALD BEALE'S cautionary tale. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA IAA
They Fry By Night
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Leslie Kirkley , CBE, who retires shortly after 23 years as director of Oxfam.
2.0-2.2 News
A Hive of Activity: try your hand at beekeeping and enjoy your own honey.
Behind every Sherpa there's always a Sherpani: CHARLES ALLEN mee.ts these colourful women of the Himalayas.
Trad England: Lord Shinwell talks to TED HARRISON about some medieval parliamentary practices still in use.
Name Dropping: written and read by MICHAEL PERTWEE (3)
Stories: The Hippo Who Had No Name by JANICE RANDALL and Those Three Little Kittens by S. M. PENBETHY
Take Your Partners A play for radio by DAVID SPENSER with Robert Powell as Vincent Martin Jarvis as Lawrence Angela Pleasence as Peggy Carole Boyd as Shirley and Eva Haddon as Lily Vincent , a failed writer, unexpectedly descends on his successful friends. He tries to turn the clock back and upset the status quo.
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
Writing for the BBC, a guidebook for professional, freelance or ' kitchen-table ' writers who want to submit scripts, 40p, from bookshops
says Do You Remember? 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 REGINALD FOORT
TONY HANCOCK With BILL KERR and SID JAMES
ISSY BONN
OLIVE GROVES
LESLIE CROWTHER , JUNE WHITFIELD and RONNIE BARKER IVOR NOVELLO
(Repeated: Thursday, 7.30 pm) Arthur in concert party From the End of the Pier: 7.30 pm. The pier people: pages 54-59
The Big House of Inver by SOMERVILLE and ROSS Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE 8: Jimmy Connor Makes a Complaint
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
The antidote to panel games from Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and William Rushton under the supervision of Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and Dave Lee at the piano.
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
on behalf of the Conservative Party
Commemorating SO years of Concert Party and well-known present-day stars who originally came ...
From the End of the Pier including LESLIE CROWTHER
TOMMY TRINDER , JOHN BOVLTER ELSIE AND DORIS WATERS
JACK WARNER
ANNE ZIEGLER AND WEBSTER BOOTH
KENWAY AND YOUNG
CLARKSON ROSE AND OLIVE FOX
STANLEY HOLLOWAY, AVRIL ANGERS EII.EEN GOURLAY, BENNY HILL HARRY SECOMBE , KEN DODD ARTHUR ASKEY
Introduced by that master of the ' Odd Ode,' himself originally a ' Fol de Rol ' - Cyril Fletcher
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
The Camp of the Dog
One of the John Silence series of Stories of the Supernatural and the Uncanny by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD : adapted for radio by SHEILA HODGSON ' It is never wise for an overcivilised man to isolate himself in a place where Nature rules. For surely he will revert.'
Dr John Silence. MALCOLM HAYES Producer
HARRY CATLIN
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
London v Midlands (Round 4) London:
Anthony Quinton (chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John Mays who delve in a prehistoric earthwork for a philological axiom and a character in Pilgrim's Progress. Midlands :
Jack Longland (chairman) with John Julius Norwich Dr Frederick Milson who search in the border for an evergreen shrub and the lost one, Violetta Valery. Producer TREVOR HILL
Presenter Peter France Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
Lost Horizon by JAMES HILTON Read by GEOFFREY MATTHEWS (3)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Second of three talks by RENE CLTFORTH
preceded by Weather
