6.32 Farming Today
GARTH COOPER and ROBIN HICKS
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 60-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 medium wave Keep Fit for All the Family, with EILEEN FOWLER , or VHF Regional news and weather; at 7.55 Weather and programme news. At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*
Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad.
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people
9.30 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ALAN WATKINS
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
BRIAN CONNEI. L reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PETER JEFFERSON Narrator EDWARD cole
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
ANNE SLOMAN , BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning, p 114; Almighty God, thy word is cast (BBC HB 188); Psalm 82; Luke 10, vv 21-28 (NEB); Lord of our life (BBC HB 179)
New Every Morning, £1.00 (cloth), 50p (paperback), from bookshops
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television.
Presenter Brian J. Ford
A weekly survey of what Is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producers MICHAEL BRIGHT and DAVID PATERSON
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Geoffrey Johnson Smith , mp Antony Hopkins , Lord Willis Germaine Greer
Chairman David Jacobs from the West Midlands I Friday's broadcast)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Michael McCrum
Head Master of Eton College as Radio 3,
Brian Johnston goes Down Your Way to Eton College: Sunday 26 January
John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners. Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN with NIGEL LAMBERT. JO MANNING WILSON and GARARD GREEN Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
4.5* Dial a Scientist
Puzzled by those scientific questions that don'seem to have any answers? Send them on a postcard (giving your name, age and phone number) to 4th Dimension, BBC, London WIA 4WW
Patrick Moore and Professor Eric Laithwaite , who have answers to just about everything, are joined by a special guest. In the chair Paddy Feeny Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
Dial a Scientist again: 15 Feb
4.30* Pharaoh of the Nile
A six-part serial play set In Ancient Egypt (4) by VICTOR PEMBERTON and DAVID SPENSER
Play produced and programme edited by GRAHAM GAULD
A quiz specially set for you. by Patrick Moore is among many spicy items in the Saturday show's own book: 4D Annual 1975, 90p, from bookshops
All the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A personal collection from the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense revealed in informal conversation with Dennis Barker. Dr Edward de Bono. Benny Green and who knows who else
Musical ideas by PETER SKELLERN With NOTTINGHAM FESTIVAL Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Charles Mackerras, conductor, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Heaven Tree by EDITH PARGETER
A tale of love and violence set in the Welsh Marches during the reign of King John.
' Harry, for God's sake, bend that neck of yours before life bend it for you or tear your head from your shoulders. It is not possible to live as you want to live; every man must give way sooner or later. Kings, popes, all who live yield some step backwards on occasion to remain upright and draw breath.'
The novel adapted for radio by WILLIAM INGRAM with Meg Wynn Owen as Madonna Benedetta and William Squire as Ralf Isambard Producer
LORRAINE DAVIES
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
Dr Mia Kellmer Pringle Donatd Lindsay
Professor D. M. MacKay in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (Manchester)
An evening Meditation by FRASER STEEL
preceded by Weather
