6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD SYMS
Introduced by John Timpson and 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.
(A shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
NEM ' p 118; Awake, our souls (BBC HB 300); Psalm 46; Jonah 4, vv 1-11 (NEB); The Saviour died (BBC HB 497)
from Scotland
The Ginger Jar by COLIN KILPATRICK
Read by Mary Riggans
For wee Henry Sullivan , when he was introduced to the delights of ginger, it seemed that an endless supply of the delicacy could be his if only he could get a ginger jar for his mother's birthday. But where, in these inflationary days, can a small boy get a ginger jar for 12 pence?
Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS
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A chance to hear again some favourite entertainers of a few years ago. John Tilley : the Windmill comedian Series compiled by EDWARD TAYLOR
Presenter Nancy Wise
Shopping Basket: MARGARET KORVING looks at the cost of everyday items and reports on 1 best buys.-
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
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor
A Chosen Exile: US expatriates with their experience of the British way of life.
2.0 2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Reporter for a Day: Woman's Hour listener MRS RHODA LEE takes the microphone around a small dairy farm, to follow the day-to-day routine of a Devon farmer.
Christmas Presents - light as a feather! : ANN GREGG finds good ideas in small parcels. ANN MORRISH reads
Angel by ELIZABETH TAYLOR (11)
Story: Wriggly Worm is Taken for a Ride by EUGENIE SUMMER-FIELD
Thank You by JILL HYEM with Sylvia Syms as Gerda Colette O'Neil as Jan
The life and times of a broadcaster-about-town
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Fatu-Hiva - Back to Nature by THOR HEYERDAHL
Read by ANDREW SACHS 4: The Stone Riddle
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
The Anxious Man written by JOHN MAITLAND adapted by PAT DUNLOP
Jamie Strachan has a complaint which mystifies and intrigues his advisers until Dr Finlay has a brainwave, with surprising results.
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Fridays Any Questionsr Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday. 4.5 pm)
Write to Any Answersr, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
How many people suffer from migraine and how awful a complaint is it? Why do chocolate and cheese sometimes trigger it off?
DICK TRACEY talks to SIR BARNES WALLIS and other migraine sufferers and asks PROFESSOR MERTON SANDLER of London University: is there any hope of a lasting cure?
Producer PETER be ROSA
(Extended version of the programme broadcast on 15 May)
The View from the Peacock Throne The Shah of Iran in conversation with Ian Mc-Intyre about the major national and international issues facing his country,
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Nigel Rees Producer TONY GOULD
Douglas Stuart reporting
In the Money by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Read by PETER MARINKER (f)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather