6.32 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50 med wave only Outlook
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Introduced by Barry Norman : including at 7.50 med wave only Travel news. What's On: Weather, prog news at 7.55.
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Conference Special Liberal Party Assembly
Delegates and observers look back at the week's events in Brighton and discuss their likely impact on Liberal party strategy for the General Election.
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
COLIN VALDAR reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by EDWARD COLE Narrator SHEILA TRACY Producers TOM READ
BERNARD TATE , ANNE SLOMAN
NEM. p 97: Spread. 0 spread (BBC HB 182): Psalm 119. part 6; Matthew 27, v 62, to 28, v 8 (AV); The wise may bring their learning (BBC HB 370)
Presenter Brian J. Ford
A weekly review of new ideas and discoveries in science, medicine and technology, Producer DAVID PATERSON
Presenter Roger Cook
Gardening Column: NANCY WISE and JOHN WARREN discuss your gardening queries: and a report on ' Britain in Bloom.'.
(Details as Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
Some happy moments from a crowded artistic repertory of film. broadcasting and gramophone records uncover the exuberance, wit and flair of this raconteur and performer extraordinary.
Producer ROGER THOMPSON
(First broadcast in Celebration)
Presenter Sandi Jones
The week in Woman's Hour.
Know Your Place: as the only child of their families, PATRICIA KER6HAW and IRENE THOMAS talk to THORNTON PEARN.
What the European papers say; Guest: Dame Ngaio Marsh
Consumer Commentary: NORMAN TOZER with a round-up.
Sitting Duck by BRUCE FRASER abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE read by KERRY FRANCIS (1)
Another Life by MALCOLM MACDONALD : the last of three plays based on his book World from Rough Stones
Lord John and Nora look forward to, and Arabella gives birth to, another life.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
World from Rough Stones pub 23 Sept (Hodder & Stoughton)
Introduced by John Dunn Arthur Poskett - 12
With JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS and CAROLE HAYMAN written by BRIAN THOMPSON
4.5 Behind the Scenes
GWYN RICHARDS goes aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. Producer DAVID SHUTE
4.25 Painting Competition
TONY HART names the winners
4.30 The Prince and the Pauper Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (6)
4.45 Number Please
A nationwide game devised by VALERIE HODGETTS. 6: Scotland
SUSANNE MCMAHON and JUNE O'KANE (Bellarmine Secondary School, Glasgow) challenge JOHN TOFFOLO and IAN GOURLAY (Bellahouston Academy, Glasgow). Chairman TOM COYNE Editor GRAHAM GAULD
4D Annual pub 26 Sept, 90p, from bookshops
Best from the week's editions. Presenter Gordon Snell Producer TONY GOULD
5.55
Weather, programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Six short stories dramatised and produced for radio by DEREK HODDINOTT
5: The Breakthrough
Ronald Pickup as Saunders Richard Leech as Mac Saxmere was an experimental station in the marshes. What went on there no one knew ...
(BBC World Service production)
Denholm Elliott, actor, with Roy Plomley
(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
by Tony Bilbow
'All those years with the old firm I nursed the idea of writing one novel, sort of a thriller really, based on fact. A gang of four men - never committed a crime in their lives - £2 million... You don't write it. You do it!'
(Leeds)
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
Three programmes in which BENNY GREEN recalls the so-called ' golden age ' of the late 19th and early 20th century. 3: Sir Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm was the leading wit of his time and equally famous as a cartoonist and as a public personality: he knew everyone worth knowing and had something to say about each of them.
BENNY GREEN looks at the period as seen through his eyes. Producer DAVID CORNET
(Repeated: Friday, 11.5 am)
Evening Prayers led by CANON PETER FIRTH
preceded by Weather