C.22 Farming Week: presented from Wales by GERRY MONTÉ
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
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Tuesday, 11.45 am)
Aided by Harriet Crawley , Sheridan Morley , Lance Perci val, Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl 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
We hear that snails are burrowing deeper this autumn, and that this may be a sign of a hard winter to come ...
Weather prognostications, and other explanations from the sages of the Wildlife team. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) Questions to: Wildlije. BBC, Bristul BS8 2LR
New Every Morning, page 34; I'm not ashamed to own my Lord (BBC HB 494): Canticle 8; Isaiah 52, vv 1.10 (RSV); Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (BBC HB 116)
Time-Killer by PAUL FEAKES
Read by Ysanne Churchman
The clock on the cathedral opposite struck a quarter to four ... In an inspired flash the idea came to Lucy Thornhill that Grant would kill her at four o'clock ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday, 1.15 pm)
Presenter Lyn Macdonald The Treasury
How does it work, and how does its work affect you? TIM MATTHEWS takes a look behind the scenes.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA LAA
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist P J Kavanagh. Show more
P.J. Kavanagh, writer and broadcaster, with Roy Plomley
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Presenter Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Husband of ... Jean Rook : GEOFFREY NASH talks about himself and life with the ' hardest hitting woman in Fleet Street.' What they'd really like: ideas for children's Christmas presents (1): Up to 2 years old.
1 Social Insecurity DILYS MORGAN talks to women on supplementary benefit. DAVID BUCK reads The Castle Inn by STANLEY J. WEYMAN (6)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Mary-Mary Goes Visiting by JOAN G. ROBINSON
Book: Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00, from bookshops
A Place in the Country
Fatu-Hiva - Back to Nature by THOR HEYERDAHL
Read by ANDREW SACHS 11: Island of III Omen
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50mediumwaveonly Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo. Peter Jones and Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in Why Not Stay for Breakfast? ' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
Read by Kenneth Williams
The book by Stella Gibbons, abridged in six parts and produced by Pamela Howe
Child, child, if you come to this doomed house, what is to save you?
In 1932 this book was acclaimed as a wickedly funny send-up of a certain kind of heavy-breathing novel about the doom-laden everyday life of country folk. Since then it has become a classic of comedy in its own right.
(Bristol)
Preview by Kenneth Williams: page 5
by G. Wilson Knight
with Lee Montague, John Rowe Hugh Dickson, Robert East
The play tells the story of Pizarro's dramatic conquest of Peru and the fall of the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa in 1532-33.
(Repeated: Sunday, 2.30 pm)
(Lee Montague is in "Who Saw Him Die?" at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Paul Vaughan.
Doaglas Stuart reporting
With voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
Chéri by COLETTE Read by SIOBHAN MCKENNA (4)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
