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 7.0 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
medium wave only from 9.45
Ring Birmingham ([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
NEM. p 84: AM ye who seek for sure relief (BBC HB 289): Psalm 51: John 13, vv 21-30 (RSV); All people that on earth do dwell (BBC MB 450)
The Temptation of Agatha Crout by NORA WlNDRIDGE
Read by June Barrie
It all began at the Church Bazaar....
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Once there was a British Raj in India
Some people loved and served it .Some people hated or ridiculed it
Must people knew little about it These programmes present it through the voices o] those who were part of it
1: The Sahibs and the Land
Who went to India and why-and the kind of land and people they found there.
Presented by Evan Charlton
... all this was evoked by Michael Mason and his orchestra oj authentic, reminiscing voices, some sad, many drily amused, all marked for life by the protocol and traditions of the Raj. (SUNDAY TIMES) Field recordings by CHARLES ALLEN and PRAKASH MIRCHANDANI Composer and produced by MICHAEL MASON ‡
Ballads by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS , journalist and sentimental commentator on Victorian England under the pen-name Dagonet.' 1: Billy's Rose
Producer TOM VERNON
A series of five programmes
Presenter Jeanine McMullen
' Oops! I'm sorry': ': lack of thought, or is there a mediCal reason for being clumsy? RENE WYNDHAM finds OUt.
12.55 medium ware only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Gordon Clough
(Thursday's broadcast)
from 2.0
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
A comparison of the Russian idea of female equality with what we are trying to achieve in Britain. Tomorrow is International Women's Day.
2.0-2.2 News
'I am bored with old people': 82-year-old Barbara Reynolds tells Dennis McCarthy why.
The Family Comes First: Jo and Ian Watson dreamed of living in the country. Two years ago they bought a post office/village store, but now...: they talk to Jocelyn Ryder-Smith.
One Tail Between Two read by Julia Lang
medium wareonly
Story: The Peacock Who Didn'Believe in Horses by VERA RUSHBROOKE
A Testing Time by GARETH ARMSTRONG with Sion Probert and Heather Bell
Various people react in different ways to the pressures of examinations: but for so-me it can prove to be almost too much of a strain ...
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
(Thursday broadcast) ‡
Mary Queen of Scots by ANTONIA FRASER
Read by COLETTE O'NEIL 10: The Royal Fugitive
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 Silver Doubloons
Harry Secombe. Peter Sellers
Spike Milligan. Valentine Dyall With MAX GELDRAY
THE RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET
WALLY STOTT AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Announcer WALLACE GREENSLADE Script by SPIKE MILLIGAN
Producer JOHN BROWELL (1960) ‡
Adam Raphael
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television Producer DAVID CORNET
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Alastair Burnet , Joan Bakewell Hugh Scanlon , Dr Magnus Pyke Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Staffordshire
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
John Tusa reporting
Friday Special: tonight's edition takes a deeper look at one of the big issues of the moment.
All Done by Kindness Read by JEREMY HAWK 5: Morris's Ikon
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
