8.22 Farming Today
Fr James Skelly
Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather; 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
(Sunday's.broadcast)
A Good Giggle
What makes children taught Where do the elephant jokes beginf And has children's humour become more sophisticated— or bawdiert
Christianna Brand and Norman Hunter , children's humorists, talk to parents and children about children's attitudes to jokes and laughter.
Presenter John Dunn
Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
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BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country.
Introduced by DENIS JONES
Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 110; Come, 0 thou Traveller unknown (BBC HB 4); Psalm 138: Ephesians 3; vv 1-13 (neb); How brightly beams the morning star! (BBC as 141)
Dog Power by MALCOLM HAZELL Read by Haydn Jones
In the old days, put me up against a dog and we both knew. It was two-way. I've seen that baring of the teeth, that dirty look out of the corner of a dog's eye ... None of your ' live and let live ' about that ...
Sir Martin Furnival Jones , former Director General of the Security Services, discusses with DEREK JONES his interest in birdwatching and chooses some wildlife recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer JOHN BURTON (Bristol)
by James McCallen
An Irish nurse, Kate, comes to look after a crippled child orphaned and living with his uncle. Kate's manners fit badly into the world of her employer, as do also her priorities, and inevitably she becomes the centre of its loves and hates.
(Northern Ireland)
Presenter Nigel Murphy
The Case of the Mouldy Dates: MIKE HARTLEY-BREWER detects a way of getting your money back via the Magistrate's Court.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
from 2.0 pm Presenter Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Diana Dors
2.0-2.2 News
The Discerning Tourist at Home: MAEVE BINCHY abroad in England.
Pasta, Pulses and Grain (3) Rice: ZENA SKINNER 'S suggestion for inexpensive meals.
Other People's Cast-offs - can be turned into today's high fashion: DILYS MORGAN seeks them out.
MONICA GREY reads
Battledore and Shuttlecock by BARBARA GOOLDEN (3)
Stories: The Red Balloon by GEORGINA PRODIIAM and Treat Day by JOAN WYATT
A Kind of Bonus by JOHN WHITEWOOD
I've had my turn at being young, and I enjoyed it very much. And to have-to have had - a kind of bonus at this late stage is more than enough. After all, Cassius Clay never fought Joe Louis either, did he?'
Producer HARRY CATLIN
A programme of records introduced by Edward Robey , the London magistrate and lifelong amateur Savoyard.
North Star by HAMMOND INNES Read by DAVID MARLOWE 3: An Inspector Calls
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reportin.g team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send discussed this week by Renée
Houston Katie Boyle , Charmian Innes Gabrielle Sherston-Baker In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESStTER. Producer JOHN BRIDGES (Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Leonard Bernstein
(SAMUEL BERNSTEIN )
A look at one of the most versatile musicians of the age and including excerpts from: Fancy Free, On the Town, Candide, West Stde Story, the Chichester Psalms and the Hass. Introduced by ALAN DELL Written and produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
The Fall of Mr Humpty A nightmare for radio by VICTOR PEMBERTON
Richard Penfold meets Jimmy, a young schoolboy, on the last train of the day. It is a meeting that could change and perhaps end Penfold's life. Who is the- mysterious Jimmy? And who will put Mr Humpty together again?
Producer john Tydeman
(Repeated: Thursday 3.5 pm)
P. J. Kavanagh invites Alan Bennett. Michael Frayn and Amanda Theunissen to test their literary wits. Reader Timothy Kightley
(Bristol)
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer Tom VERNON
Douglas Stuart reporting
Twice Brightly: written and read by HARRY SECOMBE (3)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
