6.22 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day ROSEMARY WAKELIN
Introduced by John Timpson
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.
by GRAHAM GREENE
Read by DAVID MARCH (S)
Games are Good for You ... Is there any truth in the PE teacher's cry? Does playing games do any more for you than merely develop your muscles? Or does a little co-operation on the pitch improve your character and make you a better citizen?
Paddy Feeny chairs a discussion between rabbits ' and athletes, both young and a little older.
Producer PAT TAYLOR
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country
Introduced by EDWARD COLE Producer DAVID WALTER
nem. p 110; Love came down at Christmas (BBC HB 53); Psalm 119. part 7; Revelation 4, vv 1-11 (NEB); God the Father's only Son (BBC HB 303)
The Leg-puller by 'BARTIMEUS' Read by Hugh Hugh x
Within five minutes of their arrival on board, the sheep had been adopted by the ship's company, christened, ornamented with bows of ribbon, and fed variously upon cigarettes, condensed milk, tinned vegetables, and haricot beans. Producer
JOANNA SCOTT-MONCRIEFF
A funny kind of book
Barry Took , Johnny Morris , and Kenneth Robinson all write humorously for a living., But that's no laughing matter. So which books make them laugh - and why?
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Boredom Chorus by DAVID WALKER
Adam is more interested in his own training as a runner than in teaching his pupils at the school where he works.
Other boys ANDREW BEREZOWSKI STEVEN PADWICK , ROGER MONK Producer SUSANNA CAPON
Presenter George Luce
The main emphasis today is on the Law and Consumer Affairs. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
Presenter Sandi Jones
Guest of the Week: novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Costing It Out (1) Bread: is it cheaper to make or buy? Which is better for you? HEATHER FORMAINI investigates. Trad England: DR BILL JONES talks to TED HARRISON about the medieval habits and practices of the medical profession.
Born into the Wrong Body: the personal story of a transsexual.
Douglas BLACKWELL reads Dead Letters (3)
Story: The Happy Little King by MOIRA HERITAGE
Patrick Magee and David Daker in A Mouthful of Knives by PETER BERRY
1 Can you hear them, Scuff.... long sharp spears. Run, old boar, run run run run. Oh God. don'let them catch me.'
Producer SUSANNA CAPON
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 JOSEF LOCKE ; ROBB WILTON; HEDLEY WARD TRIO; TONY FAYNE and DAVID EVANS ; TOM JENKINS ; GLADYS MORGAN ; JOSEF LHEVINNE. Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Thursday, 7.30 pm)
The Greatest Enemy
Read by MARTIN MUNCASTER (3)
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough 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 presenting world news and views
The Boy Friend, with book, music and lyrics by SANDY WILSON , was first produced at the Players Theatre in 1953 and is currently enjoying its 21st year of worldwide popularity.
In this adaptation, featuring the recorded cast of the Michael Codron-Yvonne Arnaud Theatre production, the story is told by that popular leading lady of many West End musical successes. Binnie Hale. Narrative script SANDY WILSON Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
Rien ne va plus by BRUCE MONTAGUS with Michael Harbour and Trevor Martin
When Ron and Arthur discover the perfect system for winning at a casino, the problem is that their friend Colin has discovered a perfect system too!
Producer DICKON REED
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
London v North (Round 4)
Presenter Gordon Snell Producer TONY GOULD
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Mr Armitage Isn'Back Yet Read by MALCOLM HAYES (8)
A series of four talks about some famous - and not so famous - eccentrics of the past: written by DAVID MIDDLETON and read by RICHARD BRIERS. 3: The Miserly Men
preceded by Weather
