6.22 Farming Week: presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to. plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam. Including at 6.50 and 7.50 med wave only Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER ; Weather and prog 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. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p, from bookshops
of ... Harold Macmillan
Some amusing, entertaining and perhaps more serious moments taken from his many broadcasts kept in the BBC Sound Archives,
Aided by Harriet Crawley , Sheridan Morley , Lance Perci val, Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Splegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets surprise guests for whom this week promises to be special. Producer HUGH PURCELL
mediumwaveonly
A golden moth landed on a pipe that was painted gold. Was this accidental - or do moths have an instinct to settle on things which match their colouring?
Just one of the fascinating questions discussed by the Wildlife team.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON Series producer
DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
NEM. p 79: Fill thou my life (BBC HB 271); Canticle 6, part 2; Genesis 21, vv 1-19 (av); Praise ye the Lord (BBC HB 280)
A Nice Young Man by HADRIAN ROGERS
Read by Freda Dowle
When she opened the door. he was already there on the step as if he knew she would come. ' I'm sorry to disturb you, madam but have you got a match? '
How shy. And how delightfully old-fashioned calling her madam ...
(Details as Saturday, 1.15 pm)
(medium wave only)
Presenter Jeanine McMullen How the Money Goes
JOAN YORKE talks to two housewives who spend over 112 a week on food. one of whom can'manage on less than £20. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor ELIZABETH SMITH
Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Robin Ray. Show more
Robin Ray, broadcaster and quiz expert
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams Editor ANDREW BOYLE
from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Country Scene: with PHIL DRABBLE. 1: Witness to Murder. Who's Minding the Baby? ANN HEYNO looks into an NSPCC pamphlet on parents' responsibilities.
ANN MORRISH reads
Angel by ELIZABETH TAYLOR (3)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Zerzy Gleen by MARY SOUTHWICK
Book: Listen with Mother Stor ies, 12.00, from bookshops
Finding Maubee
A Tale of Two Cities by CHARLES DICKENS
Read by ROBERT POWELL 6r The Sea Rises
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLB
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
(Rptd: Wednesday. 12.27 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in 'Why Not Stay for Breakfast?' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
David Niven reads the final episode from his bestseller autobiography
8: An Exit of Sorts
Labelled as ' the star who came home to join the RAF ' - he joins the Rifle Brigade and meets Churchill at a dinner party.
by Lester Powell
with Sion Probert, Dinsdale Landen and Penelope Lee
"Look, if you were a junkie, an alcoholic, someone who'd been in jail for bashing an OAP over the head for three quid, you'd have no problems. But you're decent. You're self-effacing, unaggressive. You're honest and truthful. You're wildly out of place in a society like this. You're an anachronism."
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30pm)
A nightly review of books, films, plays. broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Peter France Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
by William Carlos Williams abridged and edited in 12 parts by Virginia Browne-Wilkinson
Read by Peter Marinker
In this, the sequel to "White Mule", Gurlie Stecher and her small daughters, Lottie and Flossie, have returned to New York after their summer in the Vermont countryside. Joe Stecher, father and bread-winner, has meanwhile resigned his job and struck out on his own. If his gamble comes off the Stechers will be 'in the money.'
Producer John Cardy
preceded by Weather
