6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day JEAN RICHARDSON
Introduced by Barry Norman
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.
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(A shortened version of Satur. day's broadcast)
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 38; Jesus shall reign <BBC HB 460); Canticle 12; Genesis 6, vv 5-8, 13-22 (AV); Rejoice! the Lord is King (BBC HB 128)
from Scotland
Thursday's Children by ROBERT SIM
Read by John Shedden
For Donald Wilson , Thursdays were very special days, but when Connie came back from America it occurred to him that the rest of the week might be just as different.
Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS
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A chance to hear again some favourite entertainers of a few years ago.
Will Fyffe: I belong to Glasgow Series compiled by EDWARD TAYLOR
Presenter George Luce
Shopping Basket: MARGARET KORVING looks at the cost of everyday items and reports on 1 best buys.'
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind;
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12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Parliamentary Notebook: NORMAN SHRAPNEL reports.
Happy ever after?: RITA AND DAVID BRADY talk about the first year of their marriage.
Cheaper Cuts of Meat: MARY BERRY 'S ideas for pig's head and trotters.
JOHN PULLEN reads
The Jacaranda Tree (8) by H. S. BATES
Story: Miserable Mouse by DOROTHY EDWARDS
You Can Never be Sure by EDWARD MACKIN
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The life and times of a broadcaster-about-town Producer MICHELL RAPEB
4.0-4.5 News
Conscience of the King by ALFRED DUGGAN
Read by GERALD CROSS
9: AD 508-516. My Only Failure
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
Write to Any Answers!. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
A series of four dramatisattons of 20th-century kidnappings narrated bv Rent Cutforth 2: The Missing Wife
A story fit for Dostoevsky.... a classic case ... a cause célèbre ... was how the press described the crime.
The wrong person was kidnapped. The ransom demanded - £1 million - was ridiculous. And there was no trace of a body. Only the desperate anguish of the McKay family after Alick McKay arrived at his Wimbledon home one December night in 1969 and found his front door open and his wife missing ...
With SEAN ARNOLD , JOHN BULL JACK CARR. DAVID
ERICSSON NIGEL LAMBERT. DENIS MCCARTHY PETER PACEY , HECTOR ROSS
DAVID SINCLAIR , NORMA RONALD BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT
Written and produced by ALAN BURGESS
Thought for Food
A thousand acres and 200 men are lost to British agriculture every week. Fluctuating world food prices, increasing costs, and inconsistent policies of aid and support give the farmer continuing problems.
The fundamental question, which is rarely asked and never answered, is: what should Britain's food production policy be? Should we allow agriculture to run down and rely on our exports of manufactured goods to pay for our food? Or should we be self-sufficient enough to be in a strong bargaining position in the world?
Gerald Priestland examines the future of British food production.
Producers GREVILLE HAVENHAND and ROBIN HICKS
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer TONY GOULD
Douglas Stuart reporting
White Mule by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Read by PETER MARINKER (13)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
