6.32 Farming Today
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Producer ANTHONY PARKIN (Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 60-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50- medium wave Keep Fit for All the Family, with EILEEN POWLER , or VHF Regional news and weather: at 7.55 Weather and programme news.
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*.
Radio 4 fills you in on the poli-Dioal scene at home and abroad.
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with DAVID WOOD
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
PETER PATERSON reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PETER JEFFERSON. Narrator EDWARD COLE
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER , BERNARD TATE
NEM, p 89; I to the hills (BBC HB 459); Psalm 67; John 13. v 31, to 14, v 3 (RSV); Oft in danger (BBC HB 363)
New Every Morning, £1.00 (cloth), 50p (paperback), from bookshops
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television. ‡
Presenter Brian J. Ford
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad. Producers MICHAEL BRIGHT
DAVID PATBRSON
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Alastair Burnet, Joan Bakewell, Hugh Scanlon, Dr Magnus Pyke
Chairman David Jacobs
Sir Alan Marre , Ombudsman as Radio 3 Stereo
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND
ORCHESTRA as Radio 3 Stereo
John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners. Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN with NIGEL LAMBERT. JO MANNING WILSON and GARARD GREEN. Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
4.5* Animals Unlimited
Introduced by PHIL DRABBLE
When a full-grown cat gets fatter, will its whiskers get longer? One of the questions out of the ' Pets' Postbag ' today: also a talk on mice and voles, and a Young Ornithologists' Club enquiry into when owls hoot.
Producer DILYS BREESE
4.25* Book Review
Thirtean-year-old TANIA JONES talks about some of her favourite recently published books.
4.30* Part-time Johnny Morris tries his hand at another unusual occupation.
5: Making Hats in Luton Producer BRIAN PATTEN
4.40* Music and Me: Peter Glaze gives you a chance to play your music and air your views. This week he meets SARAH. NICOLA. LINDSAY and ALEXANDRA, the daughters of Terry Scott. Producer ROBBY JAYE Editor GRAHAM GAULD
4D serial Smoke Over Shap, £2.25, from bookshops
Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF (eicept London and SE) Regional news and weather
A personal collection from the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense revealed in informal conversation with Dennis Barker , Benny Green and who knows who else
Musical ideas by PETER SKELLERN with NOTTINGHAM FESTIVAL Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Jilly Cooper, journalist, with Roy Plomley
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The novel by Andrew Garve, dramatised by Eileen Cullen
with T.P. McKenna, Maria Aitken and David March
A freak wind off the African coast wrecks Michael Conway's yacht and leaves him penniless, stranded in Ghana. He is offered a way out of his difficulties - a highly paid, dangerous challenge. Should he accept it? Time: the late 1950s. (Santario island is fictitious)
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
John Mackintosh. MP
Norman St John-Stevas . mp Professor Graeme Moodie in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON (Manchester)
Evening Prayers conducted by REV W. D. KENNEDY-BELL
preceded by Weather
