S.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV STANLEY BRINKMAN
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.
Read by DAVID MARCH (6)
Her Majesty's Gardens
Whose Body? by DOROTHY L. SAYERS : adapted in five episodes by CHRIS MILLER starring and 2: Disappearance of a Financier
Producer SIMON BRETT
BBC Home correspondents and reporters: introduced by EDWARD COLE. Producer DAVID WALTER
NEM, p 89: God is my strong salvation (BBC HB 453); Psalm 130; Ephesians 1, vv 3-14 (NEB); Come, labour on! (BBC HB 388)
Faster than Harold Larwood by IVOR WILSON
Read by Wiifred Pickles
Trouble wi' 'Enry was that digging coal and cricket apart, 'e weren'much of a talker. In fact you might say 'e weren'much of owt that a lass 20 year younger than 'im would fancy,
John Amis thumbs through more of his files. 3: Philharmonics
This week he recalls working for orchestras in the late 1930s -in particular the Royal Philharmonic under Beecham - and for Richard Tauber. The magic of French songs was revealed by Maggie Teyte. Producer DEREK DRESCHER
A Sheltered Place by T. G. NESTOR
' If I bring you fishing with me you must promise for your part that you will do everything I tell you in the line of your studies. For against my better judgment, I've made up my mind to help you with that exam., But Niall's help brings Joe more problems.
Father Anselm.HAROLD GOLDBLATT Producer MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
Presenter Nigel Murphy
I'll just pop round to the shop ... but will it be open? How far does the law allow your corner shop or high street supermarket to choose its hours? asks ISABEL JAMES.
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
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Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
The Motor Show: the Woman's Hour team headed for Earls Court to cast a feminine eye over the proceedings.
2.0-2.2 News
The Newcomer: HILDA BRAID gives a personal account of joining the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Was It Worth It? ANNE BROWN meets women who have taken up study in later life, MEG WYNN OWEN reads
Look Back with Love (2)
mediutn wave only
Story: Mr Mactinkle and the Crofter's Wife by WILLIAM-RANKIN
Fugue: a new. radio play by LESTER POWELL withand
The primary meaning of the word fugue is of course ' a form of musical composition.' But there is another meaning, less well-known, it is: ' wandering with loss of memory.'
Producer IAN COTTERELL
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 with the problems of exchanging a desk in his office for a form for his pension book overnight.
With NORMAN ROSSINGTON
LINDA POLAN , YSANNE CHURCHMAN JOHN BADDELEY , PATRICIA GREENE Producers Richard MADDOCK and PETER TITHERADGE
A Raft of Swords by DUNCAN KYLE
Read by GEOFFREY WHEELER
3: The Net is Drawn Tighter
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team *
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send discussed this week by Renée Houston, Anthea Askey Katie Boyle , Mary Stocks In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer JOHN BRIDGES
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
The Art of Jascha Heifetz
For most violinists Heifetz is the unapproachable ideal. Max Jaffa yields to no one in his admiration of the art of one whom many would call the greatest violinist in the world. Spanning in his recordings the whole gamut of music. Heifetz's art has been preserved so eloquently that it might seem unnecessary to talk about the master. Nevertheless MAX JAFFA presents a tribute in words as well as music.
Producer NATALIE WHEEN
Norman A. Clarke Esq A play for radio by JOHN HYNAM with and 'Now that the case is over, I cannot close these proceedings without a word of approval of the principal witness - Mr Norman Arthur Clarke ... To have tackled one of these miscreants would have been commendable, but to take on three ... is nothing more or less than true heroism.'
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY (Rptd: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
A series of five programmes written and presented by Edgar Lustgarten in which he reconstructs some of the most notorious murder cases of the past 60 years. 3: Psyment Deferred
The winter of 1937: a Midlands town. A child late from school. Producer ROGER PINE
Presenter Keith Diggle Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Constant Nymph
Read by JUNE BARRIE (12)
3: Ian Niall - from a journalist to a North Wales farm. After years of hunting and writing about the sport, he swears he'll never touch a gun again.... and this all because he began to keep bantams and ducks.
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