6.22 Farming Today This week:
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
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. English Regions: see column 5
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from 9.20 Backyard Farming
Your breakfast egg or the Sunday roast straight from your own backyard? More and more people are keeping one or two animals in their garden to supplement the family budget. How much space do you really need for a goalt Must you have a pond to keep ducksf Can you feed chickens on household scrapsf How much would it cost to keep a lambt Do guinea-pigs make good eatingt Would a single beehive be a good investment?
For practical advice phone Phil Drabble and Elizabeth Downing In the chair Jill Burridge Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 46; Jesus, stand among us (BBC HB 262); Psalm 119, part 4; John 11, vv 32-44 (RSV); Jesus, blessed Saviour (BBC HB 203)
The Visitor and the Might-have-been: written and read by Brian Hayes
' I cannot describe to you.' Charles continued, ' the emotional impact on a young couple engendered by that first exchange of Christian names ... nowadays the young have nothing to compare with it ... Like all energy the emotional power of young love can enly be fully charged by passing through some form of resistance.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Brian Johnston recently visited Chalfont St Peter , Bucks
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Buying a House: TED HARRISON examines the availability of mortgage funds and assesses price trends in the housing market.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
based on the original TV series by jimmy PERRY and DAVID CROFT starring
Arthur Lowe , John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
Put That Light Out
Put in charge of the observation post in the disused light-house, Cpl Jones sets out to prove his qualities of leadership - and ends up endangering the whole town. featuring JOHN LAURIE
ARNOLD RIDLEY , IAN LAVENDER
With BILL PERTWEE. AVRIL ANGERS STUART SHERWIN and JOHN SNAGGE Adapted for radio by HAROLD SNOAD and MICHAEL KNOWLES Producer JOHN DYAS
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Crinolines Across the Alps: EDMUND SWINGLEHURST and TREVOR TAYLOR trace the history of the package holiday.
2.0-2.2 News
Answer and Comment.
Value Judgment: a subjective view of contemporary society by PATRICIA BEER.
Quiet, Please! : DILYS MORGAN spends a day with a public health inspector, quite literally ' keeping the peace.' JULIA LANG reads
One Tail Between Two (2)
Story: The Monkey Who Loved Music by STEVEN WEAVER
A story of Manchester life In the 1830s by MRS ELIZABETH GASKELL
Part 2
visits Nottingham
Members of the Nottingham-shire Federation of Women's Institutes put their questions to FRED LOADS , BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
Mary Queen of Scots by ANTONIA FRASER
Read by COLETTE O'NEIL 2: Betrothal
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the chair Steve Race , who also compiled the questions
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
The second in the series of programmes giving you a chance, before the Referendum, to put your points, questions and arguments on this great issue.
Tonight's edition focuses on the problem of Sovereignty. Guests: John Mackintosh, Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian, who is in favour of Britain staying in, and Rt Hon Sir Derek Walker-Smith, Conservative MP for Hertfordshire East and member of the European Parliament, who consistently opposed entry till the decision was made in 1972.
Ring [number removed] from 6.0 pm.
(Lord Justice Scarman on The Common Market: a Legal Revolution: Wed 8.15 pm R3)
1918-1939
In a series of 13 programmes James Cameron reflects two decades which are both history and living memory. 6: England Asleep
The moment anything went wrong Baldwin and MacDonald came together in a conspiracy to do nothing. Baldwin embodied England asleep.
A quote from the frustrated voice of young Britain in the late 20s. Were we asleep?
JAMES CAMERON finds some of the answers from those who bought the first second-hand cars and gave the Prince of Wales a lift; from those who made the first ' talkies ' and watched them: from the first Tory to visit Soviet Russia; and from those who danced their way to the end of the gay 20s. Producers GWYNETH HENDERSON and ELIZABETH BLUNT
Executive producer HELEN FRY
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER
Four talks during Lent on the state of the nation.
1: Wholeness or Disintegration by DR PATRICK NUTTGENS
Douglas Stuart reporting-
French Leave
Read by KATE BINCHY (12)
preceded by Weather
