6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV DAVID PARTRIDGE
Introduced by Barry Norman and Malcolm Billings
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 7.45-7.51. English Regions: see column 5
Questions to: Talking Point, Living World, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Religious Education
Is religious education necessary? What do people want for their children? And what do they get? Aren't moral values more important than dogma, anyway?
Helen Palmer has been talking to those who teach, those who learn, and those who care. Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
BBC Home correspondents and reporters: introduced by DENIS JONES. Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 97; Lord, thy word abideth (BBC HB 190); Psalm 33, vv 1-12; John 7, vv 14, 25-36 (rsv): 0 Jesus, I have promised (BBC HB 360)
by Cecily Finn
Read by June Whitfield
The car finally stopped outside a large, old-fashioned block of flats. The other mourners were arriving now and everybody clattered up the stairs into a roomy flat... Everyone seemed to know one another and soon the room was filled with parrot cries of 'Darling!' and 'Sweetie!
Eric Morecambe discusses with DEREK JONES his combined enthusiasm for birdwatching and fishing, and chooses some wild-life recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer JOHN BURTON (Bristol) Morecambe A Wise: Sun 2.2 R2
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Brian and the Brain Factory by HAYDN WOOD with Sion Probert and Peter Jeffrey I I mean it's not as though it's any old job. It's not like selling brushes or household cleaners. Selling brains is a highly complicated business.'
Producer GERRY JONES
Presenter Nancy Wise
1 It left us safely ... it's not our responsibility': whose responsibility is it. then. if your parcel fails to arrive? ISABEL JAMES takes a look at the legal position of goods in transit.
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:
Christopher Lawrence , designer in gold and silver
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Bring Your Own Soapbox!: a series of offbeat viewpoints. 1: DEREK COOPER on pay rates.
Leisure and Pleasure: pursuits, entertainments, places to go. MICHAEL KITCHEN reads Billy Liar (3)
Story: Jonathan and the Balloons by KATHY BUCHANAN
Book, Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00, from bookshops
Dreamers Awake by R. E. T. LAMB with William Eedle as Ambrey and Peter Jeffrey as Edgar AMBREY : You'll have to get them dreams seen to, Edgar. EDGAR: I can't help 'em.
Ambrey, Edgar's brother. thinks he has the solution.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
GEORGE HUNTING used to get 10d a day - Saturday included - driving the plough; MRS BROOKS , when she was in service at 2s a week, had to pay for all the crockery she broke. JEANINE MCMULLEN talks to best-selling author Fred Archer about the colossal changes that have swept over this old village of Ashton-under-Hill. The trees, the railway and the smallholdings are all gone and scarcely a score of people work on the land any more. Producer PETER DE ROSA
In a real village .. , see pages 15/16-17
The Adventures of Sir Iwein by HARTMANN VON AUE
Read by DAVID RYALL (3)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Renee Houston
Barbara Cartland
Elspeth Rhys-Williams Elaine Stritch
In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer JOHN BRIDGES (Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Elaine Stritch is in 'The Gingerbread Lady' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
The Boston ' Pops' Orchestra
PETER CLAYTON talks to Arthur Fiedler about his internationally famous orchestra and plays some of their recordings which range from the music of Tchaikovsky to Leroy Anderson , from Brahms to the Beatles. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Bon Voyage by NOËL COWARD
The first of three Coward short stories adapted for radio by JOHN GRAHAM with Honor
Blackman Libby Morris and John Rowe
A bitter-sweet look at the odd assortment of passengers aboard the cruise ship Mara as she sails from San Francisco to Hong Kong. Romance. tragedy and comedy all have a part to play.
Producer KAY PATRICK
(Repeated: Thursday 3.5 pm)
P. J. Kavanagh invites Philip Hope-Wallace John Julius Norwich and Hilary Spurting to test their literary wits. Reader TIMOTHY KIGHTLEY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CHRIS SWANN
Douglas Stuart reporting
Twice Brightly: written and read by HARRY SECOMBE (13)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
