6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES

Introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam
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 Sportsdesk 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 (8)

from 9.30
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on the political issues of the day.
Ring Birmingham (021) -[number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other Radio 4 listeners. Producer JENNY DE YONG
The lines are open from 8.0 am

The programme that minds the consumer's business and investigates matters that concern you. Presenter Roger Cook

NEM, p 75; Ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 372): Psalm 119, part 2; Eeclesiasticus 38, vv 1-14 (Jerusalem Bible); Thou to whom the sick and dying (BBC HB 383)

A Job to Go To by JOHN FARRIMOND
Read by Alan Rothwell
A kid on the way, and a job promised. A day that had started as Monday was turning into Christmas. A job, out of the pit. Producer HERBERT smith

A dramatised documentary by BRIAN GEAR from 117 Days Adrift by MAURICE and MARALYN BAILEY From their cramped rubber life-raft the Baileys watched in stunned silence as their yacht, the Auralyn, slowly disappeared beneath the waters of the Pacific. This was just the beginning of their remarkable story of human survival.
Maralyn Bailey. MOIRA HAMILTON Maurice Bailey. .....JOHN BENNETT Narrator...................BRIAN GEAR Producer MICHAEL CROUCHER

A series of six conversations with WILFRED DE'ATH recorded at Patrick Campbell 's home in the South of France.
2: On Being a Journalist

Presenter Nigel Murphy
Shopping Basket: MARGARET KORVING reports on the way prices have changed, with some of the reasons why, and where the bargains will be at the weekend.

12.55
Weather, programme news

and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough

from 2.0 Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
My First Novel: comments by new Scottish writers.
2.0-2.2 News
Read All About It: parish-pump newspapers.
Oil Sidelines: visits to Petrol Club, Texas ' Pub.
Quick on the Draw: Scotland's pistol village.
MEG WYNN OWEN reads
Look Back with Love (4) by DODIE SMITH

Story: The Invisible Pig by DOROTHY EDWARDS

Selected for Friday
The Seasons of the Blind
Three autobiographical plays by R. C. SCRIVEN in which the author describes his early life and the events which led first to his loss of hearing and eventually to his loss of sight. 1: All Early in the April with Main characters:
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX
These three plays, with two others by the same author, are published in a book, The Seasons of the Blind, £3.50, from bookshops

A Raft of Swords
Read by GEOFFREY WHEELER 5: Deceit and Despair

Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news

Steven Jessel presenting world news and views

MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Saturday, 10.30 am)

A spontaneous discussion by Marghanita Laski
Lord Robens, Hugh Scanlon Andrew Alexander
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Surrey

How Judge W Arthur Garrity Jr's enforced busing policy, attempting to desegregate schooling, came up against its greatest challenge in South Boston.

by ALISTAIR COOKE

-Presenter Nigel Rees Producer JOHN POWELL

Douglas Stuart reporting

The Constant Nymph
Read by JUNE BARRIE (14)

DAVID JASON. BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Scripts by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH DAVID RENWICK , ALASTAIR BEATON and others
Producer SIMON BRETT

preceded by Weather
12.1 am Inshore forecast