JS.22 Farming Today: GARTH COOPER and BRYAN PLATT
6.40 Prayer for the Day FR JOHN STAPLETON
Introduced by John Timpson and James Burke
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 8.351; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.
2: Rose. The ideal lady's-maid turns out to be a very strange maid indeed.
Read by Polly Murch
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The Single Woman and her Dependants
Where can my 82-year-old disabled mother go while I have a fortnight's holidayr And if I find a suitable place, how can I persuade her to go theref My father's had a bad coronary, but still tries to do as much as he did before: what can I dot
Put your questions to Roxane Arnold , director of the National Council for the Single Woman and her Dependants, and Dr Monnica Stewart. assistant physician of a geriatric unit. In the chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
nem, p 79: Lord of all being (BBC HB 11): Psalm 104. vv 25-36: Matthew 26. v 69. to 27. v 5 (av); We plough the fields (BBC HB 444)
The Psychologist Who Went Too Far by DIANA marr-johnson Read by Noel Johnson
The Stop Me and Buy One was surprised at its good fortune. The day was cold, and the gentleman did not look the sort to require an ice in any temperature.
Producer EILEEN capil
GEOFFREY wheeler recently visited Coleraine, Co Londonderry Producer BELEN FRY
Sir Compton Mackenzie
Some amusing, entertaining and perhaps more serious moments taken from his many broadcasts kept in the BBC Sound Archives.
Presenter Nigel Murphy
The rnain emphasis today is on Home and Family.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
'twixt Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and David Nixon , Paul Jennings
Tune twisters from Steve Race In the chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESS1TER
Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Back to the Simple Life? JAN BROOKES talks to a Welsh hill-farmer and his wife and the widows of a fisherman and a miner who remember having to live it.
2.0 2.2 News
Behind the Mind (6): SIR ALISTER HARDY talks about God. Arts Notebook.
Peggy Ashcroft reads
Lady Caroline Lamb (5) by ELIZABETH JENKINS
Story: Everything Happened on Baking Day by Barbara Williams
Part 5
visits Bedfordshire
Members of the Sandy and District Horticultural Association put their questions to FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer Kenneth FORD
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Read by David DAVIS
7: Barrels Out of Bond
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Seen above with her daughter, young Suzy,
Sheila Hancock is sketchily choosy :
Her choice for tonight
Must be witty and light -
It's the crime de la crime of revue. seeT
Sheila Hancock stars in her own special selection of the best in revue sketches and songs also starring Hugh Paddick With, MAX HARRIS who. with his Septet, provides the incidental music
Producer Christopher SERLE
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
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The National Trust
With half a million acres. 200 country houses and nearly 500 , miles of coastline, it is the biggest private landowner in the country. Many of us have been enjoying .its amenities during our holidays this year. Ring George Scott to put your questions on its facilities and how they can be improved and extended to Lawrence Rich. Assistant Secretary of the National Trust.
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Written and presented by PETER HUNT
Ruffian Dick was the nickname which friends and contemporaries bestowed on Sir Richard Burton-soldier , explorer, scholar. swordsman and the translator of the Kama Sutra. The Perfumed Garden and other learned works of that kind.
His wife Isabel was no less remarkable, if for no other reason than the way she put up with her husband's antics. with Francis de Wolff as Richard Burton Producer
ROBERT cradock
Presenter Peter France Producer SARA dunant
John Tusa reporting
Mr Armitage Isn' Back Yet by MERVYN JONES
Read by MALCOLM haves (2)
2: Andrew Young
LEONARD CLARK introduces recordings made by the poet who was for many years his friend. (Tomorrow: John Masefield )
preceded by Weather