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 7.8 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
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 who says :
NEM, p 34; The race that long (BBC HB 496); Psalm 57; John 10, v 40, to 11, v 15 (bsv); Come, ye faithful (BBC HB 123)
Tales from Clanky Junction The Fountain of All Wisdom written and read by Stan Wilson
He was the oddest looking engine driver I'd ever set eyes on! In profile his head was the shape of a crescent moon - his forehead and chin jutting out beyond a nose that would have been more at home on a pekinese! He had a smile in his eyes but there was something about it that suggested he wasn' quite on a normal wavelength. Producer HERBERT SMITH
Scent of Victory
Narrated by Michael Flanders including:
Triumph in North Africa and Sicily; Invasion of Italy The Dam-busters Raid Wartime comedy
Leslie Howard shot down
Churchill on peacetime reconstruction
25th anniversary of the RAP 21st anniversary of the BBC
Midpet submarine attack on Tirpitz
Music of the tinte
With the recorded voices of: MARSHALPIETRO BADOGLIO REAR-ADMIRAL C. B. BARRY
RT HONBRENDAN BRACKEN
RT HONWINSTON CHURCHILL
MISS GRACE HAMBLIN
GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER BBC Reporter FRANK GILLARD TOMMY HANDLEY
THE KENTUCKY MINSTRELS
ARTHUR HOWARD. KENNETH MACKSIE AIR VICE-MARSHAL H. G. MARTIN
THE MILLS BROTHERS LT PLACE, vc. and LT CAMERON. VC
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
DR BARNES WALLIS
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company: JOHN BULL ANTHONY HALL. WILLIAM SLEIGH Research assistant COLIN REID Written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES
Presenter Lyn MacDonald
Keeping Abreast of Modern Treatment: JAMES WILKINSON discovers whether- and if so, how - your gp keeps track of the latest developments in methods of treatment.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
from 2.0 Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
It's Not in the Book: the Lancashire Cookery Club team, EVELYN ROSE and MARGARET TRAVIS , face questions from members of Cheshire Women's Institutes.
Wheelchair Commune: PAT and BRIAN LEWIS talk about their plans to PAT CALLAGHAN
Skating at 80: but that's only part of the busy life of FREDERic moss
The Superannuated Man by CHARLES LAMB read by CYRIL LUCKHAM
Stories: The Little Yellow Taxi and The School Bus by RUTH AINSWORTH
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AlTKEN
Written by GLADYS WRITHED Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
The Marionette by SHIRLEY COOKLIN with Gwen Watford, Peter Jeffrey and Anne Jameson
Ann isn' cut out to be a widow. It isn' only a matter of facing up to life alone - there are the rumours, the gossip about her late husband. Also, some disturbing facts are coming to light.
Producer JOHN CARDY
A selection of listeners' letters
Harlequin by MORRIS WEST abridged by STUART EVANS Read by DENIS lill (10) Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Archive Goonery selected at random
The fl-million Penny
Harry Secombe , Peter Sellers Spike Milligan
With MAX GELDRAY
THE RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET
WALLY STOTT AND HIS ORCHESTRA Announcer WALLACE GREENSLADE Script by SPIKE MILLIGAN
Producer JOHN BROWELL (1958)
Paul Burden presenting world news and views
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal setection of items from BBC Radio and Television Producer DAVID CORNET
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Mancroft, Anthony Howard, Esther Rantzen, Pete Murray
Chairman David Jacobs
From Oxfordshire
(Rptd: Sat 1.15; Mon 11.5 am)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to Any Answers?, [address removed]
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
Friday Special: tonight's edition takes a deeper look at one of the big issues of the moment.
French Leave
Read by KATE BINCHY (10)
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
