6.22 Farming Week: presented from Scotland by ROY GREGOR C.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson
Including at 6.50 and 7.59 med wave only Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER : Weather and prog 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. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
by John Masters, abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by Tony Britton as Rodney Savage (21)
[Repeat]
Aided by Harriet Crawley , Lanee Percival. Esther Rant-zen. Kenneth Robinson. Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets surprise guests for whom this week promises to be special. Producer HUGH PURCELL
Autumn is a time of plenty, especially for natural crops such as mushrooms. The mushroom must be the most famous of all fungi, but there are many more kinds -some edible, too - and we'll have some hints about those to look out for in the coming weeks. Also, more of your letters and sound requests.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer robin PRYTHERCH Series producer
DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
NEM, p 50: Sing to the Lord (BBC bb 19): Psalm 86; Matthew 25, vv 14-30 (AV); Come, O thou traveller (BBC HB 4).
Say, could that lad be I? by MARY LAVIN
Read by Allan McClelland
'Did I ever tell you about a dog I had,' my father asked; 'a dog by the name of White Prince? He was a cross between a wirehaired terrier and a bloodhound, and he was pure white, with the hair bristling on him when he smelled a fight ...
Another chance to hear O'Connell and the Hedge
Lawyer by MARTIN MCBIRNEY and SAM HANNA BELL
Introduced by Harold Goldblatt with Denys Hawthorne as Daniel O'Connell and Kevin McHugh as Courtney Forbes
In 19th-century Ireland, wills were often drafted by local amateur lawyers, which easily led to fraud. As a young lawyer, Daniel O'Connell , the radical, distinguished himself when challenging such a will on behalf of a young farmer. Producer MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
The Building Society: what does it do with the money you pay in and to whom is it lent? Who makes the decisions and how? TIM MATTHEWS spends a day at one of Britain's largest building societies.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is ornithologist Phyllis Barclay-Smith. Show more
Phyllis Barclay Smith, ornithologist, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island.
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Who Said That?: a quiz compiled and presented by IRENE THOMAS. Answering the questions. IRENE HANDL and RUSSELL HARTY.
2.0-2.2 News
The Moonlighters (3): robin MCGEE. double-bass player with the London Symphony Orchestra, also records pop music aimed at the Top Ten.
Understanding Medicine: DR ROBERT ANDREW on diabetes.
MICHAEL PERTWEE reads from his book Name Dropping (6)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Big Fat Rosie Has a Trip to Town by MARY CALVERT : part 1
Operation Pedestal
The Hobbit by J. R. R. TOLKIEN abridged in ten parts and read by David Davis
1: An Unexpected Party
' I should like to know a bit more about things.' said Bilbo. ' The gold and the dragon and all that-what am I going to get,out of it? And am I going to come back alive? -
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler In the Picture '
LENNOX-BROWN: Our Clean Up Britain campaign is really catching on. Look at this headline in the paper!
MILDRED: I say! ' Obscene Plays - Prime Minister to act'! with NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY. JOHN GRAHAM written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wed, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
Written by ANNE JONES
. starring Deryck Guyler and Mollie Sugden
3: To be or not to be - an OAP Mr Wheeler , the young-at-heart. keep-fit enthusiast. grapples overnight with the problems of exchanging a desk in his office for a form for his pension book.
With NORMAN ROSSINGTON
LUSDA POLAN , YSANNE CHURCHMAN JOHN BADDELEY and PATRICIA GBEENE
Producers RICHARD MADDOCK and PETER TITHERADGE (Birmingham)
by Frederick Bradnum
with music by TERENCE ALLBRIGHT
"We Communists are dead men on leave. I do not know if you will extend my leave...."
with
Others taking part: TIMOTHY BATESON, CAROLE BOYD, JOHN BULL, HUGH ROSS, STEPHEN THORNE, DAVID TIMSON, MANNING WILSON
Musicians JOHN DENMAN, SARAH FRANCIS, WILLIAM WATERHOUSE
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
(With acknowledgement to Levint the Life of a Revolutionary by Rosa Levine-Meyer) (Repeated: next Sunday, 2.30)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Iain Johnstone
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
Lost Horizon by JAMES HILTON Read by GEOFFREY MATTHEWS (6)1
Radio 4 International Business Report; Market Trends
A series of four talks.
'The alien creature craned forward, its huge tentacles thrashing....' Is science fiction really just monsters and prophets of doom? Jane Finnis, with the aid of Isaac Asimov, John Brunner and Arthur C. Clarke, examines the nature of science fiction.
preceded by Weather
