6.22 Farming Today This week:
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day FR CHRISTIAN HOLLIS
Introduced by John Tlmpson 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'. Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.
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How comprehensive is comprehensive insurance? Is there any policy which covers all disasters in the home? What is the best form of life cover? Is it better to buy a house with an insurance policy-linked mortgage? What forms of insurance are tax deductible? How about superannuation for the self-employed?
Put your questions to Joan A. Astell and Ronald Beale, both writers and advisers on all aspects of insurance.
Sue MacGregor is in the chair
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live In - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 75; 0 God of earth and altar (BBC HB 394); Psalm 119, part 1; Isaiah 52, v 13 to 53, v 6 (nsv); Behold, the mountain of the Lord (BBC HB 485)
Pin-up by CERARD MELIA Read by Cyril Shaps
Tom discovered that the pin wouldn' come undone and he couldn' see properly to rectify the matter. There was nothing for it -he'd have to take his trousers off ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Brian Johnston recently visited Usk, Gwent
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives.
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
Retiring to the Manor - on a Pension
NANCY WISE finds one way of stretching your finance.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 1AA
from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Laughing Gas written by JAN READ adapted by PAT DUNLOP
A ' cheeseparing old hypochondriac ' develops a baffling complaint which gives our doctors cause for grave concern.
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.5S
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Breaking the Barrier: how easy is it for a woman to become a member of the medical profession - and get to the topT ANNA COOTE investigates.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
What they'd really like: ideas for children's Christmas presents 12): 3 to 6 years old.
Down and Out in London and Budapest: VICTOR sassie remembers good food in poorer times.
DAVID BUCK reads
The Castle Inn (7)
Story: The Special Pocket by JOY TUCKER
by THOMAS HARDY : dramatised in four parts by DESMOND HAWKINS. Part 3
Incidental fiddle music played by GEORGE BUDDEN
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)
visits High Wyeombe, Bucks
Members of the Hughenden Allotment and Garden Association put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
'Sunday's broadcast)
Book, Gardeners' Question Time 3, 40p from bookshops
Fatu-Hiva - Back to Nature Read by ANDREW SACHS 12: Cannibal Valley
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game devised by Tony Edward J. Mason, Tony Shryane
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Ring John Tusa to put your questions on food supplies and prices in our shops and markets to Tim Fortescue, Secretary-General of the Food and Drink Industries Council.
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Sir John Betjeman, the Poet Laureate, introduces and reads, with Jill Ballon and Gary Watson, a programme of poems about the sea including
Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
S. Eliot: from The Dry Salvages
Sir Henry Newbolt: Drake's Drum
Rudyard Kipling: Harp Song of the Dane Women
R. L. Stevenson: Christmas at Sea
Presenter Peter France Producer SARA DUNANT
Douglas Stuart reporting
Chert by COLETTE (5)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
