6.22 Farming Week: presented from East Anglia by David Richardson
6.40 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 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 (Monday-Thursday): by REV ROGER GRAINGER.
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNI
English Region): see column 5
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
aided by Harriet Crawley , Sheridan Morley , Lance Perel val, Esther Rantzen. Kenneth Robinson , 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. Producer HUGH PURCELL
We have been in the habit of swimming in a local pool which abounds in pike. Friends assure me that human toes are a great delicacy on the pikes menu. Reassurance, or perhaps a warning, from the Wildlife team today.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
NEM, p 42: Christ, above all glory seated (BBC HB 121); Psalm 122: Acts 1, vv 15-26 (NEB): Give me the wings of faith (BBC HB 229)
Bolting with Benjamin by IRIS MACFARLANE
Read by Mary Wimbush
I was talking to myself.... It's a silly habit I have.'
' Join the club,' said the girt. 'I'm at it all day. Yack, yack, yack, I bore myself potty. That's not your kid, is it? *
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Paying by cheque?: what reference or proof of identity is acceptable? SYLVIA MARGOLIS finds out.
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 soprano Valerie Masterson. Show more
Valerie Masterson , soprano. 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
(medium wave only from 2.0)
Introduced by Sue MaeGregor
Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Instant Health?: a cool look at some alternatives to 'an apple a day.' 1: Birch Twigs and Soft Hands.
Reading your letters.
Top to Toe: a series of weekly exercises with Esther Fairfax to help you look and feel better.
Return to Russia: Dorothy Russell was in Moscow during the Revolution. Last summer she visited the flat she used to live in.
One Tail Between Two by Beryl Sandwell, abridged by Ba Mason, read by Julia Lang
'I suppose my husband is what you'd call a one-cat man...'
(First of ten parts. Music: Messager's 'Les deux Pigeons')
medium ware only
Stories: Little Benny by JEAN DARLING and Auntie Bel's Bird Table by JILL ROWE
Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00 from bookshops
(Saturday's broadcast)
(Stereo)
[Repeat]
Mary Queen of Scots by ANTONIA FRASER : abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT Read by Colette O'Neil
This justly celebrated biography tells the story of the tragic Queen of Scotland who came to the throne when she was only six days old and whose life from then until she reached her end at Fotheringhay was filled with extraordinary and dramatic events. 1: The Most Perfect Child Producer JANE GRAHAM
Robert Williams with PM's reporting tean Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
VHFRegional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimme Peter Jones , Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCR
(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 Tid marsh
Editor DEREK LEWIS
Johnny Morris on his ' tour de France ' - from Normandy to the Mediterranean and back again to Paris.
Scenes from Married Life by WILLIAM COOPER adapted for radio by MALCOLM AND ELIZABETH BRADBURY with ' It was 1949. I was 39, and a temporary Civil Servant. I wrote novels and was unmarried. You may wonder why. There are people who think marriage the natural human state; I felt as much about the unmarried one.'
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (Birmingham)
(Rptd: next Sunday 2.30 pm) Uncivil author: page 5
A nightly review of books, films. plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer LOUISE PURSLOW Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor DEREK LEWIS
French Leave by E. Œ. SOMERVILLE and MARTIN ROSS abridged in 15 parts
Read by KATE BINCHY (11)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
