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
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from 9.45
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
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 110; Help us to help each other, Lord (BBC HB 378); Psalm 16; John 15, vv 16-27 (rsv); For the might of thine arm (BBC HB 242)
Sweet Songs of Spring by PATTIE HALLAM
Read by Helen Worth
I'd made this date you see, my first-ever, with Dougal Mc-Tavish. Only it was raining. Coming down in sheets. I couldn't possibly go.
Producer HERBERT SMITH
A panorama of British India recorded by some of those who lived in it.
2: Lances and Rifles: The Indian Army
Presented by Evan Charlton Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON
Ballads by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS , journalist and sentimental commentator on Victorian England under the pen-name Dagonet.' 2: Two Women
Producer TOM VERNON
A series of five programmes
Presenter Nancy Wise
Gently Does It: NANCY WISE talks with experts about the best methods of lifting and moving the disabled.
(Wednesday broadcast)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Gordon Clough
(Thursday's broadcast)
from 2.0 Introduced from Cardiff by Teleri Bevan
Welsh Guest: Ray Milland on the publication of his autobiography.
2.0-2.2 News
Prisoner in Thailand: GWYNETH MORGAN tells of her daughter's capture by terrorists.
Living with Blight: families in houses needed for future road schemes talk of their predicament.
Two Families, Three Parents, One Income: BRYAN GLASTONBURY and his side of the story of divorce.
ROBERT GLADWELL reads Futility by WILLIAM GERHARDIE .(4)
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Story: Shadows at Bedtime by DAPHNE BENHAM
A Shady Business
A dramatisation in three parts by JOAN O'CONNOR based on Une Ténébreuse Affaire by HONORE DE BALZAC with Peter Vaughan
Gillian McCutcheon , Philip Bond A conspiracy against Napoieon: it's dangerous even to think such a thought, for spies are everywhere and no one is safe.
Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Peter Vaughan is in ' The Pay-off ' at the Comedy, London)
Mary Queen of Scots
Read by COLETTE O'NEIL
15: The Dolorous Stroke
Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers Spike Milligan
With Max Geldray
The Ray Ellington Quartet
Wally Stott and his Orchestra
Announcer Wallace Greenslade
Script by Spike Milligan
Producer Peter Eton (1954) (Repeat)
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael
Margaret Howard presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
Rt Hon Edward du Cann , MP Gwyneth Dunwoody , MP Arthur Marshall P. J. Kavanagh
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Devon
(Rptd: Sat 1.15; Mon 11.5 am)
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
9.59 Weather
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 10: Soiled Linen
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL BEES 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
