S.22 Farming Week: presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER
C.40 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam. 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 8.27s Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 by CANON RICHARD BUCK. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p, from bookshops. English Regions: see column 5
with the help of BBC Sound Archives discusses the sounds of mastication and the effect of noise on nutrition.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
aided by Harriet Crawley, Sheridan Morley, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl.
Enjoy a mixture of argument, humour and music as they meet the personalities, preview the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead.
(Tonight Lance Percival says Be My Guest: 7.2 Radio 2)
Can you explain why a male blackbird keeps trying to mate with the dog's bone on my lawnt
One of the fascinating problems put to the Wildlife team in another question session. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 122; For those we love within the veil (BBC HB 243); Canticle 10; John 8. vv 21-36 (rsv); Let saints on earth (BBC HB 249)
New Every Morning, ;1.00 (cloth), 50p (paperback), from bookshops
Love to Spare by FRANCES GOMM Read by Ysanne Churchman
Barry loved his Mum But he kept asking himself, ' Then why did you tell a lie to get away from her? '
Producer BARBARA. CROWTRER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter George Luce
Windpower Now: would it be worth your while changing to some of the alternative sources of power? TED HARRISON gives details of costs and where to buy equipment.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours, BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and politician Lord Longford. Show more
Lord Longford, with Roy Plomley.
12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams Editor ANDREW BOYLE
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Story: The Biggest Cream Bun in the World by MARY CALVERT Presenters this week:
JEAN ROGERS and TONY AITKEN Written by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00 from bookshops
Fire, Burn! bV JOHN DICKSON CARR
Harlequin by MORRIS WEST abridged for radio in ten parts by STUART EVANS
Read by Denis Lill
Set against a background of international high finance, Harlequin is the story of Paul Desmond , a skilled, vastly experienced banker who, suddenly confronted with extortion, terror and possible ruin. discovers he is. after all, an ethical man.
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
6.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather. programme news
A panel game controlled (1) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud Peter Jones , Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Rptd: Wednesday 12.27 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in ' Why Not Stay for Breakfast? at the Apollo Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
Johnny Morris on his ' tour de France ' - from Normandy to the Mediterranean and back again to Paris.
Second of six programmes
Another chance to hear Caste by T. W. ROBERTSON adapted for radio and produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Presented in 1867, when spectacle and scenic wonders called for song rather than speech, Caste, a realistic straight play, marked the eclipse of burlesque and a new era of theatre fare began, with Tom Robertson acknowledged as the first modern English dramatist. with Narrator William SLEIGH Pianist ANNA BERENSKA
A nightly revieiv of books, films, plays. broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Nigel Rees Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
French Leave by E. Œ. SOMERVILLE and MARTIN ROSS abridged in 15 instalment* by ELIZABETH ROWLEY Read by Kate Binchy
'I know I can paint! ' cried Patricia. ' I know it's in me, but it'll never come out of me if I'm to stay here - Just waiting till father can marry me off. I want to go and study in Paris! '
Nineteenth-century Ireland, and Sir Ingram Kirwen 's daughter Patricia is determined to have her way.
Producer DENYS HAWTHORNE Presence of mind: page 4
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather