6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day
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 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
English Regions: see column 5
from 9.45
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham (021)-[number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners. Producer JENNY DE YONG The lines are open from 8.0 am
The programme that minds the consumer's business and investigates matters that concern you. Presenter Roger Cook
NEM, p 9; Let us, with a glad-some mind (BBC HB 461); Psalm 8; John 9, vv 1-12 (RSV); The spacious firmament on high (BBC HB 21)
The Weather is So Changeable by NORA WINDRIDGE
Read by Douglas Leach
She dreams the sunshine. In her dreams the sky is blue, air warm, cedar and spice and sandalwood ...
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Sir John Betjeman the Poet Laureate introduces and reads with Jill Balcon and Gary Watson love poetry including:
Robert Browning The Laboratory Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee
Thomas Hardy The Ruined Maid W. B. Yeats John Kinsella 's Lament for Miss Mary Moore
Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb Recorded before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Presenter George Luce
Hearts and Flowers: ANDY PRICE takes a quizzical look at Valentine's Day.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
Editor ANDREW BOYLC
from 2.0 Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
Love Scots Style: for Valentine's Day.
2.0-2.2 News
Dear Green Place: Glasgow's 800 years.
My Kind of Life: by an agoraphobic.
AID Babies: a legal viewpoint.
Centre for Scots: in the heart of London.
MICHAEL KITCHEN reads Billy Liar (10)
Story: Mr Smith and his Birthday Pudding by KATHY BUCHANAN
by Barrie Keeffe
'In Australia you'd get a turkey the size of a kangaroo and still have change out of £3.'
Uncle Jack, just back from four years in Australia, is a big success story - according to himself. But things are not quite what they seem, as some of the family gradually find out.
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
Harlequin by MORRIS WEST Read by DENIS LILL (5)
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Archive Goonery selected at random
The Childe Harolde Rewarde Harry Secombe , Peter Sellers Spike Milligan
With MAX (;ELDRAY
THE RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET
WALLY STOTT AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Announcer WALLACE GREENSLADE Script by SPIKE MILLIGAN
Producer JOHN BROWELL (1958)
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television Producer DAVID CORNET
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Russell Braddon Sylvia Synu
Magnus Magnusson Dr Mark Hughes , MP
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Northumberland
IRptd: Sat 1.15; Mon 11.5 am)
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Douglas Stuart reporting
Friday Special: tonight's edition takes a deeper look at one of the big issues of the moment. Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor DEREK LEWIS
French Leave by SOMERVILLE and Ross Read by KATE BINCHY (5)
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH ALASTAIR BEATON and others Producer JOHN LLOYD
preceded by Weather
12.1 am Inshore forecast
