6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam 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
Read by HUGH BURDEN (14)
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Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham (021)-[number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners. Producer JENNY DE YONG The lines are open from 8.0 am
The programme that minds the consumer's business and investigates matters that concern you. Presenter Dick Tracey
nbm, p 5: God moves in a mysterious way (BBC HB 8); Psalm 96; John 3. vv 13-21. 31-36 (RSV); Glorious things of thee are spoken (BBC hb 176)
Pond Life by ERIC BEAN
Read by Geoffrey Banks
I stood some distance away and watched the swan grieve. His wings lifted and fell. His neck was lowered in mourning. Suffering. Who knows what a wild creature can suffer? Producer HERBERT SMITH
The voice and music of David Davis , who improvises at the piano on themes of his own choosing.
2: Cold's the wind and wet's the rain
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
Peace of Mind: would meditation on the National Health help? KEVIN D'ARCY investigates. BILL BRECKON concludes his series on stress.
12.55
Weather, programme news
Gordon Clough
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Redundancy: in the present economic climate even the most secure job could disappear overnight. What is it like to be redundant? We find out from some people who make redundancy their business.
2.0-2.2 News
The People Party: JAN BROOKS talks to LESLEY WHITTAKER who founded ' the political wing of the Conservation Movement.'
The Fiction of Sex: DR ROSA-LIND MILES talks about her book to LIZ DANIELS. Mother Knew Best by DOROTHY SCANNELL abridged by FIONA MACPHERSON read by BRENDA BRUCE
Story: The House no one wanted by URSULA HOURIHANE Presenters MAUREEN MORRIS and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Written bv MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Selected for Friday And Barley Rigs
Written for radio by JESSIE KESSON lain Cuthbertson as narrator
Here he was, head dairyman at Darklands, at a fee which would have made his father turn in his grave ...
This captured in spellbinding manner the atmosphere and style of life in another time in a very foreign land (THE TIMES) Producer STEWART CONN (1968) followed by an interlude
Round the Bend by NEVIL SHUTE abridged by DONALD BANCROFT Read by EDWARD KELSEY 9: The Six Books
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)
In a Marmalade Saloon by Patrick O'Connor , read by Michael Deacon
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Final. 15: MAGDALEN COLLEGE
SCHOOL, BRACKLEY V THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHELTENHAM
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television Producer DAVID CORNET
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Mary Goldring
David Benedictus Tom Jackson
Sebastian de Ferranti
Chairman David Jacobs from Lincolnshire
Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Rptd: Sat 1.15; Mon 11.5 am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer TONY GOULD
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Lolly Willowes by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER
Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY (2)
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
DAVID RENWICK , ALASTAIR BEATON and others
Producer SIMON BRETT
preceded by Weather
12.1 am Inshore forecast
