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
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 Sportsdesk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40'
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
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 , ANNE SLOMAN
NEM, p 46: Christ is our cornerstone (BBC HB 2581; Psalm 85: Genesis 8, vv 15-22, and 9, vv 12-15 (avi; The Church's one foundation (BBC HB 184)
Presenter Brian J. Ford
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad. Producers
MICHAEL BRIGHT, DAVID PATERSON
Presenter Roger Cook
Gardening Column: NANCY WISE and JOHN WARREN on gardening for the blind, gas heaters in your greenhouse, and growing things from pips.
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Bob Holness
Plymouth High School for Girls v Grammar School, Cheltenham
(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news
Ludovic Kennedy, Lord Stokes, Alan Fisher, Ann Moore
Chairman David Jacobs
Presenter Judith Chalmers
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON gow reporting.
What the European papers say. The week in Woman's Hour.
In a Strange and Muddy Land: behind the official ceremonies which mark Remembrance Sunday are a million simple stories. This is one of them.
Sitting Duck by BRYCE FRASER abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE read by KERRY FRANCIS
Take Care of Bridger by BRIAN LEE
An elderly mother, two middle-aged daughters and a cat. An almost completely female household, apparently self-sufficient. Who needs men? Then Douglas comes to tea < . <
Producer ROGER PINE
Introduced by John Dunn
Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN with NIGEL LAMBERT. JO MANNING WILSON and GARARD GREEN Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
4.5* Animals Unlimited
A very tall bird with an enormous beak-which makes a nest like a cartload of twigs in the top of the tree. Yes, it's the heron's turn for a close look from PHIL DRABBLE-who also opens his Pets' Postbag again - and we hear how to make a ' wormery.'
4.25* Postbag
Some of your letters read by ANDREA KEALY and JOHN MACLAREN
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 6: The Hyaena Calls
Producer PEGGY BACON Editor GRAHAM GAULD
4D Annual, 90p, from bookshops
Presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team
5.55
Weather, programme news
assisted by Dennis Barker Dr Edward de Bono
Benny Green. Anna Raeburn and who knows who else Also featuring the NOTTINGHAM FESTIVAL QUARTET Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Elisabeth Frink, artist, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island.
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs, 9.5 am)
by John Ashe
The play is set in and around the court of King Frederick William I of Brandenburg-Prussia in the year 1730.
9.58 Weather
Bryan Magee. MP
Mark Carlisle. qc. mp Baroness Wootton in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Evening Prayers led by ANGELA TILBY
Organist RICHARD HICKOX
preceded by Weather