6.22 Farming Week: presented from East Anglia by DAVID RICHARDSON
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam Including at 6.50 and 7.50 med wave only Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER : Weather and prog 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. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p, from bookshops
by Graham Greene
Read by David March
Aided by Harriet Crawley, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson, Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets surprise guests for whom this week promises to be special.
(medium wave only)
One windy morning recently a rook perched in a young ash tree at the bottom of my garden, and with its beak deliberately tugged a leaf from the tree and let it go to whirl down the valley. It repeated this action several times. Can the Wildlife team explain?
Introduced by Derek Jones
(Bristol)
Questions to: Wildlife, [address removed]
NEM, p 106; The God of love (BBC HB 474); Psalm 121; Ephesians 3, vv I-19 (NEB); God of grace (BBC HB 391)
New Every Morning, £1.00 (cloth), 50p (paper), from bookshops
A Legacy from Father by KAY WITHERS
Read by Betty Hardy
Miss Honeywell was a great one for detail ... She had become aware of her special ability purely through watching television....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday, 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
The Computer in Your Life: friend, foe, or just another bit of modern bureaucracy? In the third of his enquiries Ted Harrison looks at the computer as - The Simpleton.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Polly James. Show more
Polly James, actress
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
(Friday's broadcast)
(medium wave only from 2.0)
Introduced from Cardiff by Teleri Bevan
Guest of the Week: Dick Francis, former National Hunt jockey and leading writer of crime novels.
2.0-2.2 News
Husband-of-Mary Whitehouse: he talks about himself and life with the co-founder of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.
Medicine on Wheels: Anita Morgan looks into the need for mobile pharmacies.
Farming with the Disabled: a report by Liz Godber on a scheme in mid-Wales.
Meg Wynn Owen reads Look Back with Love (5) by Dodie Smith
Story: The Dog Who Had No Name by LEILA BERG
Flash Point by MICHAEL GILBERT
A Raft of Swords by DUNCAN KYLE: abridged in ten parts by BERTHA LONSDALE Read by GEOFFREY WHEELER
An expedition to recover secret undersea missiles which have become dangerous has arrived near Triangle Island. 6: Sabotage
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud, Peter Jones, Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
David Niven reads from his bestseller autobiography 4: Hanging by a Thread
After a dreary term of service with the Highland Light Infantry in Malta, enlivened only by the antics of his friend Trubshawe, David Niven enters the London social scene.
Anna Massey and Edward Judd in The Land of Promise by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Written and first performed In 1913, this was considered by Maugham to be the most lasting of his early plays.
The proud Norah Marsh is forced through financial circumstances to move from the gentle confines of Tunbridge Wells to the wilds of Canada. There she meets Frank Taylor , the epitome of all she detests.
Producer GLYN DEARMAN
(Lockwood West is in 'Billy' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
The Constant Nymph by MARGARET KENNEDY Read by JUNE BARRIE
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
A series of four talks in which Dr Magnus Pyke, FRSE, Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, makes an optimistic appraisal of the prospects for our way of life in the year 2000.
A study of the dangers and severity of pollution - past, present and future.
preceded by Weather
