6.22 Farming Week: presented from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
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 7.8 and 8.4 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
Some amusing and entertaining moments taken from their many broadcasts in the BBC Sound Archives,
Muir and Norden are witty and wise again - and wordy with it: Tuesday 6.15 pm
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
While sitting in a garden, we heard a crunching sound. A tall plant began swaying to and fro - and slowly disappeared from view! When it had completely gone the crunching stopped.
The Wildlife team tries to identify the culprit and answers more of your questions. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON Series producer
DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
NEM. p 62: Father, hear the prayer we offer (BBC HB 352); Psalm 25. vv 1-19; Isaiah 57, w 15-21 (Rsv); Ye boundless realms of joy (BBC HB 483)
by Karen Curry
Read by Marjorie Westbury
She did really like men; they were an inconvenience to be borne, and one did one's duty, but the sooner they, and their dubious habits, were finished with the better. She'd say to her sisters: 'When we're all widders...' her eyes softening with the vision of the manless years stretching before them...
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Jeanine McMullen Your Own Business
MOLLY PRICE-OWEN and JOHN TURTLE investigates some part-time business opportunities.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Betty Kenward. Show more
Betty Kenward, writer of 'Jennifer's Diary,' discusses with Roy Plomley (in a programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island.
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
Reading your letters.
Country Scene with PHIL DRABBLE. 2: Bawled out by a toffee-nosed tart.
Fantastic!: a look at the function of animals in fiction. DAVID BUCK reads
The Castle Inn (11) by STANLEY J. WEYMAN
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Red Rob by RUTH AINSWORTH
The Scarborough Theatre in the Round Company in The Breadwinner by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
- For 12 mortal years I've been going down to the city in the same tube, I've spent the day buying and selling shares, and the world was rolling on and on. I'm fed up. I'm not going to be the drudge of respectability any longer. I'm through.'
Directed by ALAN AYCKBOURN adapted by KAY JAMIESON
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (Leeds)
The Lunatic at Large by J. STORER CLOUSTON abridged and read in five parts by Nigel Lambert (1)
When Francis Beveridge (alias Bunker, alias Mandell-Essington) escapes from The Clank-wood private asylum, it's the beginning of a series of adventures which scandalise and amaze high society. With his friend Baron von Blitzenberg, he sets out to discover his true identity. Their hilarious progress is chronicled with wit and style in this classic of Edwardian comedy. Producer DICKON REED
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team
5.50 medium wave only, Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Derek Nimmo
Clement Freud , Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN LLOYD
(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 BOWE
2: There's a curse on us, Robert Poste 's child.
The Miser by Moliere the new translation by RICHARD CARTER with ' I am besieged by traitors, trying to pry into my affairs! Thieves everyone! I say, you wouldn'be the sort of man who'd spread a rumour that I've got some money hidden away, would you? '
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOS PITTAS
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan
9.59 Weather
Doug!as Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
Chéri by COLETTE
Re.ad by SIOBHAN MCKENNA (9)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
