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 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.
[number removed] 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 [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 programme that minds the consumer's business and investigates matters that concern you. Presenter Roger Cook
NEM, p 122: From glory to glory advancing (BBC iib 244); Canticle 10; Wisdom of Solomon 5, vv 1-10, 13-16 (rsv); For all the saints (BBC ub 227)
A Trumpet for Judgment Day by MICHAEL PEARSON
Read by Timothy Kightley
I couldn' quite work out Mrs Bathurst 's enthusiasm for jazz bands. She was my new land-lady: a frail little woman in her late 60s.
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
A series of six conversations with WILFRED DE'ATH recorded at Patrick Campbell 's home in the South of France 4: Wives and Ladies
Presenter Nancy Wise
Which is the healthiest area? A You and Yours special country-wide enquiry.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 1AA
In the chair Anona Winn
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
from 2.0
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Woodlands in Winter: Herbert Smith explores the delights of visiting woods and forests in the winter months.
2.0-2.2 News
Starting in the 60s: Catherine MacArthur's first novel has just been published.
Donkey Stones: Judi Goodwin looks at an old tradition still in use.
John Pullen reads The Jacaranda Tree (4) by H. E. Bates
Story: Mrs Cluckabiddy 's Cornfield by STEPHEN WEAVER
Selected for Friday
The Seasons of the Blind
Last of three autobiographical plays by R. C. SCRIVEN
This play, which was specially written to mark the 1968 centenary year of the Royal National Institute for the Blind, surveys the full cycle of a year, showing how the blind can only rely upon memory and their remaining senses when they wish to appreciate the changing of the seasons. with The many other parts played by DAVID BRIERLEY , WILFRID CARTER JAN EDWARDS , NICHOLAS EDMETT LEONARD FENTON , BRIAN HAINES
KATHLEEN HELME , HILDA KRISEMAN HAYDN JONES , DENIS MCCARTHY LOCKWOOD WEST
MARJORIE WESTBURY
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX
These plays, with two others by R. C. Scriven , are published in a book, The Seasons of the Blind, £3.50, from bookshops
Conscience of the King by ALFRED DUCGAN
Read by GERALD CROSS
5: AD 475-476. Escape and marriage
Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Keith Hindell 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 Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Ian Mikardo, MP, Sir Geoffrey Howe, MP, Esther Rantzen
Chairman David Jacobs
from Port Talbot
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon, 11.5 am)
Listeners' views to: Any Answers? [address removed]
Presenter Nigel Rees Producer TOM VERNON
John Tusa reporting
White Mule
Read by PETER MARINKER (9)
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.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH DAVID RENWICK and others
Producer SIMON BRETT
preceded by Weather
12.1 am Inshore forecast
