6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV GEORGE AUSTIN
Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
Including at 6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today 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. English Regions: see column 5
by EVELYN WAUGH
Read by HUGH BURDEN (12)
Clouds of Witness by DOROTHY L. SAYERS : adapted in eight episodes by PETER JONES and TANIA LIEVEN starring
8: The Speech for the Defence
Producer SIMON BRETT
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country.
Introduced by PETER JEFFERSON Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 122; The Son of God his glory hides (BBC HB 68); Psalm 34, vv 11-22; John 2, vv 12-22 (Rsv); From the eastern mountains (BBC HB 65)
Dragon by JENNY HOBBS Read by John Pullen
' You said a dragon? ... ' Yes, son, that's what they called it.'
Brian Blessed discusses with DEREK JONES his interest in wildlife and mountaineering and chooses some wildlife recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer JOHN BURTON (Bristol)
Relics by DAVID CAMPTON i I'm Mrs Parkinson from next door. Mrs Wilkinson said you must be the nieces when she saw you bringing in the suitcases. '
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
Cheap Warmth: are paraffin heaters good value for money? BILL BRECKON on surviving the stress points in life.
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Eric Newby , traveller and writer.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Without a Refrigerator: LYN MACDONALD on keeping chicken and pork.
Not Just for Pin-Money: KRISTIN MACEWAN on the work of a part-time employment agency. The Discerning Tourist at Home (2): And where is MAEVE BINCHY ? BRENDA BRUCE reads
Mother Knew Best (8)
Story: The Day George overslept by AUDREY HOOKER
A Change of Scene by MARION BARNETT
Lindon Manor may be a most romantic spot. but is it the ideal place to take your second wife, particularly if your first wife is also staying there?
Producer GLYN DEARMAN
Robert Dougall , after more than 40 years with the BBC, felt entitled to a holiday. He recounts his stirring adventures in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan and America. On tour he saw the duck-billed platypus and proved himself a dab-hand with chopsticks.
Producer PETER DE ROSA
Round the Bend by NEVIL SHUTE Read by EDWARD KELSEY 7: The First Pilgrimage
William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.56 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send discussed this week by Renée Houston, Peggy Mount Elizabeth Taylor , Beryl Reid In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer JOHN BRIDGES (Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Yehudi Menuhin
Violinist, teacher and philosopher and one who is constantly concerned with the freedom of the individual, Menuhin has become a living symbol of the search for all that is good in the world.
His observations on different subjects punctuate a selection of recordings which illustrate the various stages in his career. Producer MADEAU STEWART
by Peter Berry
'We're both men of the world ... we know that life's a matter of compromise, you either bend with the system or the system breaks you.'
(Repeated: Thursday 3.5 pm)
P. J. Kavanagh invites
Angela Huth , Arthur Marshall and Anthony Quinton to test their literary wits. Reader TIMOTHY KIGHTLEY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Presenter Gordon Snell Producer JOHN POWELL
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Smokescreen by DICK FRANCIS abridged by BRIAN GEAR
Read by JACK WATSON (12) Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
Some reflections on life in the Soviet Union today by the BBC's former Moscow correspondent Erik de Mauny.
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