6.22 Farming Week: presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER
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 bv Alan Watson and Desmond Lynam. Including at 6.55 and' 7.55 Weather and programme news. At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Teday with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35* and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
English Regions: see column 5
by EVELYN WAUGH : abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT Read by HUGH BURDEN (10)
aided by Harriet Crawley , Sheridan Morley , Lance Percl val, Esther Rantzen. Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl.
Enjoy a mixture of argument. humour and music as they meet the personalities, preview the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead.
Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
Can you sort out all the visitors to your bird tablet Some help with two birds that are easily confused.
We have some of your favourite sounds - including the song of the camel: also your letters, the competition, and what to look for in January.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON Series producer
DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM. pp 151. 47-49; Hail, thou source of every blessing (BBC HB 66): Psalm 85. vv 5-14: Matthew 2, vv 1-12 (av); As with gladness men of old <BBC HB 62)
Broken Wing by BORIS RIABININ Read by Robert Rietty
It isn't often that you see a man walking ducks down the street on leads ... There were two of them: and they were wild ducks, which made it all the more surprising ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
A Screw Loose Somewhere? An investigation into the cost of servicing.
Surviving the Stress Points of Life: BILL BRECKON talks to a family doctor about how it's done.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to you and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 1AA
Roy Plomley's castaway is French horn player Alan Civil. Show more
Alan Civil, french-horn player
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced bv Robert Williams
Editor ANDREW EOYLE
Presenter Sue MaeGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Holidays in Britain (1). Let's get Together: PATSY KUMM looks at houseparties, holiday hotels and centres.
Top to Toe: a series of weekly exercises with ESTHER FAIRFAX to help you look and feel better. Understanding Medicine: DR ROBERT ANDREW talks about cancer and its treatment. BRENDA BRUCE reads
Mother Knew Best (6) by DOROTHY SCANNELL
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Jenny and the Singing Animals by KATHLEEN EYRE
Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00 from bookshops
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair by HUGH WALPOLE
Round the Bend by NEVIL SHUTE Read by EDWARD KELSEY 5: The Move to Bali
Shak Lin's way has spread a long, long way from here ... Engineers worship in his way in Rangoon and Bangkok, in Karachi and Abadan ... And it may go farther.
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Derek Nimmo
Peter Jones , Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Rptd: Wednesday 12.27 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in Why Not Stay tor Breakfast? ' at the Apollo Theatre. London)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
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
5: Curses, like rookses, flies home to rest in bosomses and barnses.
by Janet Howorth
Catharism, the way of life of the Albigensian 'heretics' in Languedoc in the 13th century, is the subject of this moving play. The 'perfect ones' obeyed rules and took vows other than those of the Church - which, of course, could not be tolerated...
(Rptd: next Sunday 2.36 pm)
Presenter Peter France Producer TOM YERNON
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Smokescreen by DICK FRANCIS Read by jack WATSON (10)
Some reflections on life in the Soviet Union today by the BBC's former Moscow correspondent Erik de Manny 1: After Khrushchev
preceded by Weather