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
(Sundays broadcast)
Substitute Mums
Other peoples babies - who looks after them? The ' au pair' and the child-minder are becoming an accepted part of our society, and the well-trained nanny is still eagerly sought after by families that can afford one. But what effect does having two mothers in the household have on a child?
Dilys Morgan talks to working mothers like JUDITH CHALMERS about ' substitute mums.'
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BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories. Introduced by PETER DONALDSON
Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 75; God is our refuge (BBC HB 454); Psalm 112; John 13, vv l-ll (RSV); Rejoice today, with one accord (BBC HB 281)
by A.R. Rawlinson
Read by John Graham
As you can see, dear boys, I have got a few bits and pieces, haven't I? '
Joe confessed that he had never before seen so much antique furniture assembled in one place.
Records of the distinguished pianist
Introduced by Martin Cooper Rubinstein plays Chopin: Thursday 7.30 pm Radio 3
Cloth Caps. Mufflers and III Fitting Suits by TONY ALLEN and VERNON MAGEE
BERT: The Labour Exchanges are full of incoherent mumblers who don'speak up for themselves. You don'find articulated people in places like this.
MONTY: What are you doing here then?
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Presenter Jeanine McMullen
To Rent or Not? It's now six months since the Rent Act was extended to cover furnished tenants. NANCY wise has been finding out what difference it has made.
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12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voioes and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
from 2.0 pm Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Anthony Dowell , ballet dancer.
2.0-2.2 News
Leisure and Pleasure: pursuits, entertainments and places to go.
Made in Hong Kong: one-third of the clothes Britain imports carry this label. DILYS MORGAN finds out why.
JULIA LANG reads
One Tail Between Two (8)
Story: Jean's Paper Tooth by WILLIAM RANKIN
Turnbo Manor by ALMA CULLEN
' And so, as we draw to the end of our three days of unabashed confrontation, we are forced to ask ourselves: what have we learned? What is the unbroken link between us here at Turnbo Manor Adult Education College and Eve in the Garden of Eden? '
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (Leeds)
In the last of four programmes Alan Dell recalls some of the great American dance orchestras of the 40s and 50s.
Mary Queen of Scats
Read by COLETTE O'NEIL 8: The Rise of Bothwell
Th< 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 , Isobel Barnett Charmian Innes Trudi van Doorn
In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer JOHN BRIDGES (Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Trudi van Doom is in ' There Goes the Bride ' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
on behalf of the Conservative Party
sends greetings and congratulations for her 800th birthday to the great and greatly loved soprano lsobel Baillie , and marks the occasion with some of her most famous recordings. Written and presented by MICHAEL KENNEDY
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON (Manchester)
Clear as a bell: page 4
Laid to Rest by KEITH MILES
A play in the occasional series about Ben Spiggott of the Bow Street Runners.
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (Birmingham)
(Repeated: Thursday 3.5 pm)
P. J. Kavanagh invites James Michie, Amanda Theunissen and Kenneth Williams to test their literary wits.
(Bristol)
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer TOM VERNON
John Tusa reporting
All Done by Kindness by DORIS LANGLEY MOORE Read by JERRMY HAWK
3; The Hand of Sir Harry
preceded by Weather
