6.22 Farming Week: presented from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
6.40 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by Alan Watson 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 8.6 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.27; Today's Paper at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 (Mon-Thurs): by PETER UTTLEY. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
aided by Harriet Crawley. Sheridan Morley , Lance Perci val, Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl.
Enjoy a mixture of argument, humour and music as they meet the personalities, preview the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead. Producer HUGH PURCELL
SUSAN HAMPSHIRE talks about gardens open this year in aid of district nurses' benefit funds.
Booklets: Gardens of England and Wales, 30p from bookshops, or 39p from [address removed]; Scotland's Gardens. 37p from [address removed]
When out walking early In February this year we saw a small bird which we identified as a willow warbler. But our birdbooks tell us that this bird is a summer visitor ...
Comments on early birds (and possibly worms) from today's Wildlife team.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
NEM, p 118: Rise up, 0 men of God! (BBC he 364): Psalm 46: John 16, vv 12-22 (rsv); I bind unto myself today (BBC HB 170)
The Watched House by JOHN CADELL
Read by Peter Howell
' I tell you it's all beginning to hang together,' he said. ' It all goes back to when we first took the place from Bradley.-
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm) ‡
11.50 Announcements
Presenter George Luce
Getting Your Rights: RICHARD WELLS looks at the work of the Claimants' Union on behalf of the unemployed.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA
Roy Plomley's castaway is painter Duncan Grant. Show more
Duncan Grant, painter, with Roy Plomley
12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics introduced by Robert Williams Editor ANDREW BOYLE
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two: LADY ANTONIA FRASER and MICHAEL HOLROYD On the art of the biographer.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
What We Wear: two country housewives talk to DILYS MORCAN about their clothes and how they budget for them.
Growing Up: DR FRANK TAIT , DR LORNA BRIERLY and DR JOHN APLEY discuss the physical and emotional signs of puberty.
ROBERT GLADWELL reads Futility by WILLIAM GERHARDIE (5)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: A House for a Mouse by RUTH AINSWORTH
Next Man Through the Door
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour by R. S. SURTEES abridged for radio in ten parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by Maurice Denham
First published in 1853, this story, by the creator of the immortal ' Jorrocks,' features a disarming sponger who divides his time between fox-hunting and fortune-hunting. 1: Our Hero
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN (Bristol)
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo Clement Freud. Peter Jones try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Rptd: Wednesday 12.27 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in ' Why Not Stay for Breakfast? ' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views Editor DEREK LEWIS
Micheal Mac Liammóir tells the story of his life in five readings from his autobiographical works. 1: Bird's Eye
In which the actor describes his work as a child performer in the 1910s: how. as a young man. he met the director Hilton Edwards, in Ireland, and how they planned to create a new theatre together.
Producer MICHAEL HEFFERNAN (Northern Ireland)
The Doctor's Youth: page
by Harold Brighouse
with Wilfred Pickles as Horation Hobson, Bernard Cribbins as Willie Mossop, and Barbara Young as Maggie
High-class shoemaker Horatio Hobson's eldest daughter Maggie decides to marry his simple-hearted apprentice Willie, and set up shop in opposition.
(1962) (Rptd: next Sunday 2.30 pm)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor DEREK LEWIS
All Done by Kindness by DORIS LANGLEY MOORE : abridged in 13 parts by MADGE HART Read by JEREMY HAWK
11: The Curious Booty Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
preceded by Weather
