6.22 Farming Today
(.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
Social Development
Society spends time and money on the academic development of young people, but many children miss out on the kind of education that will make them full members of the community.
What is the effect on children of a new baby in the family Are they taught to cope with the financial problems that may face them in adulthood* What are young people's views on the changing attitudes to marriage and family life?
Jill Burridge drops in on an experiment in social development at Woodroffe School. Lyme Regis.
Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
BBC Home correspondents and reporters: introduced by PETER DONALDSON. Producer TOM READ
NDM, p 50; Come, Holy Ghost (BBC HB 151); Psalm 89; John 11, vv 45-54 (rsv); Lift up your hearts! (BBC HB 326)
New Every Morning, 11.00 (cloth), 50p (paperback), from bookshops
The Stain on the Chair by L. P. HARTLEY
Read by Jill Balcon
' I never really understood him - 1 wish I had....Oh, if he was with us now.'
Edward Greenfield with reminiscences and records of the famous soprano, distinguished both in the opera house and on the concert platform,
in The Diaries of Adam and Eve by MARK TWAIN : dramatised for radio by NORMAN H. KOLPAS
ADAM: You name everything that comes along, before I can even get in a protest. And always the same reason: 'It looks like an ant, it looks like a hippopotamus, it looks like a dodo!
Producer DAVID SPENSER
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Brass Plate or High Street Shop? Where do you go for legal advice: to a traditional solicitor's office or to some new alternative? MIKE HARTLEY -BREWER has been finding out.
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12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
William Hardcastle
medium wave only from 2.0 pm
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Baroness Seear
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Bring Your Own Soapbox!: a series of off-beat viewpoints. 4: John Richards on Wildlife Conservation.
Arts Notebook.
JULIA LANG reads One Tail Between Two (3)
Listen with Mother celebrates its 25th anniversary with a birthday party for the Gazonka who is three years old this week.
Story: Lucy and the Bananas by LUCY HUDDLESTON
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
House Divided by CHRISTOPHER BIOMEAD
' The reason you can never get to grips with women is that they aren't actually there. What you see is the afterglow of something that's already vanishing into the future. They live in the future. And they pull you in after them.'
Flute SUSAN MILAN
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
In the third of four programmes Alan Dell recalls some of the great American dance orchestras of the 40s and 50s.
Mary Queen of Scots by ANTONIA FRASER
Read by COLETTE O'NEIL 3: The Young Widow
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
The questions and ideas you send discussed this week by Renee Houston, Marjorie Anderson, Janet Hitchman, Beryl Reid
In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER.
Producer JOHN BRIDGES
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
(JAMES P. JOHNSON)
George Melly presents a portrait of the singer, pianist, organist and composer who, through an irreverent approach to his material, managed to gain a world-wide audience with numbers such as 'Ain't Misbehavin',' ' My very good friend the Milkman ' and ' Honeysuckle Rose.' But behind all the fooling and satire Waller was a musician of originality and genius.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER
by Geoffrey M. Matthews
'It's time they learned that the police are just as human as they are; that shiny blue uniforms don't alter character... and that if one of our "family" gets done, we kick back... hard!'
(Repeated: Thursday 3.5 pm)
P. J. Kavanagh invites Lord David Cecil. Patrick Garland and Marghanita Laski to test their literary wits. Reader TIMOTHY KIGHTLEY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Douglas Stuart reporting
French Leave by SOMERVILLE and ross Read by KATE BINCHY (13)
Radio 4's International .Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
