6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day CANON ROY MCKAY

Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather; at .55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news At 7.0 and 8.0 News and mere of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.27; Todays Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. English Regions: see column 5

(Sundays broadcast)

(medium wave only)
'Nits are not nice-they're lice': Dilys Morgan finds out about head fleas.
Tender loving care: ANN HEYNO visits a school that has a nurturing group.
And other items of topical interest to parents and children. Introduced by Jill Burridge Producer MARY REDCLIFFS

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 58; Firmly I believe (BBC HB 168); Psalm 150; John 6, vv 1-14 (RSV); Holy Father, In thy mercy (BBC HB 386)

Egg with a Mustache by ROY S. WOLPER
Read by Blain Fairman
When a customer asks me for brown eggs. I always think. if only for seconds, of that Monday afternoon, when I was ten and had been helping in the family store ...
(Blain Fairman Is In ' The Gingerbread Lady' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)

Eddie Braben , comedy script-writer extraordinary, discusses with DEREK JONES his interest in birdwatching and wildlife, and chooses wildlife recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer JOHN BURTON (Bristol)

A play for radio by Charles Thomas

A tu'penny ha'penny little company I'm connected with. They couldn't afford to build a decent chicken run, let alone a skyscraper. Believe me, no one's going to be in a hurry to build here, not for years they aren't. And then you'll have nothing to sell. This is your chance, Mrs Slater. It may never come again. £1500! Clear of expenses, remember.'

Presenter Jeanine McMullen
' arrest you ...' can you stop someone you think is committing a crime and haul him round to. the Police Station? What are the rights of the private citizen in civil and legal matters? RICHARD MOORE investigates.

12.55 Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

William Hardcastle

from 2.0 pm Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Amaryllis Fleming , cellist
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
The discerning tourist at home: MAEVE BINCHY abroad in a town in Britain.
Two Plain, One Purl: knitted garments are high fashion and there's a boom in home knitting, MONICA GREY reads
Battledore and Shuttlecock by BARBARA GOOLDEN (9)

Story: My Naughty Little Sister at the Party by DOROTHY EDWARDS

End of Term: a new comedy for radio by E. H. HENDRY with Richard Briers and Peter Sallis
Strange goings-un at a private school for boys in which the staff outnumber the pupils. Pupils:
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
TPeter Sallis in ' The Pay-off ' at the comedy Theatre, London)

A retired poacher and his wife reflect on some of the facts, secrets and myths of poaching. Field recording by ROBIN C.RACEY
Producer MICHAEL MASON Splitting hares. paye 4

North Star by HAMMOND INNES Read by DAVID MAHLOWE 8: My Father's Ghost

William Hardcaslle and PM's reporting 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 Juno Alexander. Nikki Archer Aimi Macdonald
In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITEH. Producer JOHN BRIDGES (Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)

(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)

John Tidmarsh

All Together Now!
Peter Clayton examines the joys of the popular end of choral and group singing - from the Mills Brothers to Mitch Miller , from swingalong to the Swingles, from black congregation to white football crowd. Producer JOHN DYAS

One of Our Commuters Is Missing by KEN WHITMORE
' Have you ever noticed how you see somebody on the train every day for years and then one day suddenly he's missing? Has he committed suicide? Been posted to the Stoke-on-Trent sub-branch? Won the pools? You give him ten seconds between the share prices and tonight's TV guide and forget him forever.'
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (Leeds) (Repeated: Thursday 3.5 pm)

P. J. Kavanagh invites Edward Blishcn Arthur Marshall and Anthony Quinton to test their literary wits. Reader TIMOTHY KIGHTLEY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)

Presenter Edwin Mullint Producer john POWELL
8.59 Weather

John Tusa reporting

Twice Brightly: written and read by HARRY SECOMBE (8)

Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends

preceded by Weather