6.32 Farming Today
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm
A weekly review of the agricultural scene
(Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 60-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 Travel news and What's On: Weather and programme news at 7.55.
At 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with DAVID WOOD
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
GERARD EVANS reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by EDWARD COLE Narrator sheila TRACY
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER , BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning, p 34; Souls of men (BBC HE 20); Psalm 57: Genesis 2. vv 4-9, .15-17 (av); Ten thousand times ten thousand (BBC HB 253)
New Every Morning, £1.00 (cloth), 50p (paper), from bookshops
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television.
Presenter Brian J. Ford
A weekly review of new ideas and discoveries in science, medicine and technology. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
Presenter Roger Cook
An excellent case for recycling: ANDY PRICE investigates the falling leaf problem.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland.
Questionmasters - Tim Gudgin and Bob Holness
Ruthin School, Clwyd, v. Duffryn High School, Newport
12.55 (medium wave only) Weather, programme news
A spontaneous discussion by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Ian Mikardo , mp
Sir Geoffrey Howe. mp Esther Rantzen
Chairman David Jacobs from Port Talbot
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to: Any Answerst BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Judith Chalmers
The week in Woman's Hour. Book of the Month for Me: chosen by SYLVIA CLAYTON.
Consumer Commentary: NORMAN TOZER with a round-up of international news in the consumer world.
What the European papers say. Lunch at 12.30: two sisters, AILEEN and BLANCHE who are in their 70s, share their midday meal with two local priests. Sitting Duck by BRYCE FRASER abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE read by KERRY FRANCIS (8)
Reproaches by BERNARD KRICHEFSKI with Nigel Anthony. Kika Markham and David Valla
RICK: I've said enough.
HELENA: Maybe you have but ... Rick, I don'find this very easy to say - but we did both love him, didn'we? with VERNON JOYNER
EMILY RICHARD , JOHN RYE Producer DICKON REED
John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners. Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN with NIGEL LAMBERT. JO MANNING WILSON and GARARD GREEN Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
4.5* Unusual Schools
JOHN CRAVEN visits schools with a difference.
2: Lord Mayor Treloar Trust Special School for physically handicapped girls and boys, Froyle, Hampshire.
Producer MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
4.25* New Books: ANNE WOOD looks at recent publications.
4.30* Flying Doctor in Africa
A series of six adventure plays by MICHAEL NOONAN about the hazardous work of the Flying Doctor Service in East Africa. 5: Bonfires in the Night
Producer PEGGY BACON Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Book, 4D Annual 1975, with stories, picture-strips, nature and science features, 90p, from bookshops
The daily news magazine, now extended to Saturdays.
All the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.55
Weather, programme news
assisted bv Dennis Barker Dr Edward de Bono
Benny Green. Anna Raeburn and who knows who else
The Radio Personality of the Year takes a quizzical look at the week and talks to people who have contributed to its yield of the sublime and/or the ridiculous.
Musical comments by the NOTTINGHAM FESTIVAL
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Alan Ayckbourn, playwright, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island.
(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
Greg in Spring by John pores
' I know how he feels. Wartime bomber pilot, now failed civil servant. He thinks he's joined the had-it brigade, has no useful function any more, so must dream up situations in which he becomes admired, desired.'
Producer MARGARET ETALL
9.58 Weather
John Wain. Stuart Hood Michael Elliott in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Evening Prayers led by REV RALPH SMITH
preceded by Weather