6.22 Farming Today This week
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV EDGAR NICHOLSON
Introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam
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.
(Medium wave only from 9.20)
Over 7,000 deaths and more than 110,000 serious injuries - those are the latest annual figures for accidents in the home. The need for first aid is self-evident, but how confident are you of being able to apply it when an accident happens at home?
You can put your auestions or relate your experiences to Dr Robert Andrew, a GP with a special interest in first-aid education, and Richard Herring lecturer in first aid for the St John Ambulance Association.
In the chair Sue MacGregor
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am
NEM p 84: Lord of mercy (BBC RB 295): Psalm 51; Genesis 22. vv 1-13 (AV); Believe not those who say (BBC HB 317)
Prophecy by JOHN KIRKMORRIS
Read by Jim McManus
We expected him to say ' millionaire' or 'cinema-manager' - which was the next best thing because you wore a dinner-jacket in the afternoon and saw all the pictures for nothing ... But Billy whispered
I want to be a knight.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Four excursions at the piano by SIDNEY HARRISON
2: A Little Light Music!
Presenter Jeanine McMullen You and Your Bed
Today's programme centres entirely around beds and sleep. You can find out the cost of a good bed, and assess the pros and cons of investing in a brass bedstead.
Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 1AA
from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
The Old Indomitable written bv WILLIAM WOODS and ROBERT HOLMES adapted by PAT DUNLOP
An old-fashioned sewing machine plays an important part in the lives of a disabled miner and his young daughters.
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor
Children's Books and Writers: takes a look at the production of a book from writing to publication. and offers ideas for Christmas reading.
2.0-2.2 News
Letting Your Home: SALLIE SLOMAN advises
A Hairy-tale of Toupees: once upon a time BERNARD JACKSON had a full head-of-hair; but then, one day... ANN MORRISH reads
Angel by ELIZABETH TAYLOR (4)
Story: Charles and Dapple by RUTH AINSWORTH
by SIR WALTER SCOTT. Part 5
A Tale of Two Cities 7: Summoned
William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
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Ring Alan Watson to put your questions in person to his guest of the evening. With an eye on topical interest we are leaving the invitation as near as possible to the date.
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm until the end of the programme
The Story of the Home Guard
More than a million-and-a-half strong at its peak. the Home Guard was Britain's strangestever army. Created almost overnight, as the Local Defence Volunteers, in 1940. stood down. with little glory, in 1944, it is best remembered nowadays because of a television comedy series
What was the reality behind the Dad's Army legend? What was the military value of the Home Guard, not only in 1940 but later in the war, when it was well-armed and well-trained?
Contributors include Lord Avon who. as Anthony Eden. called the LDV into existence: Lord Bridgeman. Director General of the Home Guard from 1941: and some of the officers and men who. in the official words ' gave generously of their time and powers ' to serve it.
Narrator David Mahlowe
Script by NORMAN LONGMATE
Producer Stanley Williamson (Manchester)
(Shortened edn: Fri. 11.5 am)
Presenter Nigel Rees
Producer ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
In the Money by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Read by PETER MARINKER (2).
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
