6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day
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
What will you have to drink?
This question is being asked more and more by young people, who are starting to drink at an increasingly early age.
What are they drinking and why? Do most parents set their children a bad example? Should we be teaching children how to drink wisely?
Ann Heyno has been talking to both parents and children about alcohol.
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country. Introduced by PETER DONALDSON
Producer TOM READ
NEM, p25; How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (BBC HB 142); Psalm 27, part 1; John 10, vv 11-21 (rsv): Jesu, priceless treasure (BBC HB 518)
The Fountain Plays by DOROTHY L. SAYERS abridged and read by Gabriel Woolf
'No, it's not expensive.... it uses the same water over and over again. Most ingenious.' Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Records of the great Italian tenor
(Shortened version of the broadcast on Christmas Day)
medium only
So Goodbye Dear and Amen by ROBERT HUXTER with Wilfred Pickles and Kathleen Helme
Henry is retired, lonely and suspicious. Fanny is an old actress down on her luck. For a moment it looks as if they could find comfort together.
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (Leeds)
Presenter Lyn MacDonald
Courts in Chaos?: is this too strong a description of the state of our juvenile courts and the system for dealing with young offenders? DICK TRACEY talks to magistrates and social workers.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
William Hardcastle
(Tuesday's broadcast)
from 2.0 pm Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Yvonne Mitchell , actress and author.
Growing Herbs-in the Kitchen: FRANCES PERRY.
Bring Your Own Soapbox!: a series of off-beat viewpoints. 3: DIANA COOPER on (other people's) children.
Good for Business?: BERNARD JACKSON moves among traders who hold the Royal Warrant ' By Appointment.'
This month is the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Lamb. Cyril Luckham reads three of his essays abridged by BARBARA BRILL. Today: The Wedding
Story: Claire Claire Orange Hair by E. BROTHY
The Exercise of Discretionary Flexibility: a play for radio by MICHAEL KITTERMASTER
His failure to exercise ' discretionary flexibility' over Mrs Hernandez 's claim for a welfare payment, and her subsequent suicide, impinges on Arnold Foster's conscience ...
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
In the second of four programmes Alan Dell recalls some of the great American dance orchestras of the 40s and 50s.
by Morris Welsh Read by Denis Lill (8)
William Hardcastle 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 Re nee Houston, Bettine Le Beau Claudia Flanders Sheila Van Damm
In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer JOHN BRIDGES (Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Mr Moon River
Henry Mancini is one of the cinema's most prolific and melodious composers. ' Moon River,' ' The Pink Panther,' ' Peter Gunn ' and ' Baby Elephant Walk ' are just a few of the pieces in a programme accenting Mancini's music, and giving a glimpse of the engaging personality behind it. Written by FRANK DIXON
Introduced by Ray Moore Producer HERBERT SMITH (Manchester) Quiz: page 4
Star Quality by NOËL COWARD
The last of three Coward short stories adapted for radio by JOHN GRAHAM with and The story of a young play-wright's encounter with the big star who could make or break him in the theatre.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING (Repeated: Thursday 3.5 pm)
P. J. Kavanagh invites Lord David Cecil , Patrick Garland and Marghanita Laski to test their literary wits. Reader TIMONTHY KIGHTLEY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stuart reporting
French Leave
Read by KATE BINCHY (8)
preceded by Weather
