6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by Desmond Lynam and John Timpson
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.
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 (021)-[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 67: Come, let us join our cheerful songs (BBC HB 122); Psalm 146; Genesis 18, vv 1-15 (AV); Ye servants of God (BBC HB 287)
from Northern Ireland
Hunch: written and read by John Morrow
He was a natural musician: five minutes after picking up any instrument from nose-flute to sitar he'd be playing a tune; five hours and he'd have progressed further than most would in a lifetime.
Producer PAUL MULDOON
Robert Dougall plays some favourite records and explains why they give him pleasure.
The last of six conversations with WILFRED DE'ATH recorded at Patrick Campbell's home in the South of France
6: The Famous Stammer Producer MICHELL RAPER
Presenter Nigel Murphy
It's my Nerves, Doctor ...
But is it? What are 'nerves?' BILL BRECKON reports.
12.55
Weather, programme news
Gordon Clough
from 2.0
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
The Season of the Year Christmas in a big department store in Birmingham. The Woman's Hour team goes behind the scenes to sound opinion on the commercialisation of Christmas
2.0-2.2 News
Still at the department store ANNE BROWN meets some of the buyers who are seeing whether their market predictions made a year ago are paying off, and looks at what's new in the seasonal market. ANN MORRISH reads
Angel by ELIZABETH TAYLOR (2)
Story: The White China Mug by JO DONOVAN
Presenters PATRICIA GALLIMORE and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Scripts by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
by SIR WALTER SCOTT dramatised in five parts by STEPHEN MULRINE Part 4: with Tom Fleming, Michael Harrigan Lennox Milne, Bryden Murdoch Balfour of Burley ..TOM FLEMING
Henry Morton.MICHAEL HARRIGAN
Producer GORDON EMSLIE (Scotland)
A Tale of Two Cities by CHARLES DICKENS
Read by ROBERT POWELL
5: Knitting and Shoemaking
Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.50 medium wave only Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A general knowledge contest between schools in England. Scotland, Wales and N Ireland
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Sat, 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion bv Russell Braddon Robert Kee
Helene Hayman, mp
Michael Heseltine, mp
Chairman David Jacobs from Staffordshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
A Shepherd's Life
5: The Shepherd as Naturalist
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH DAVID RENWICK and others Producer SIMON BRETT
preceded by Weather
12-1 am Inshore forecast