6.22 Farming Today
: -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. Thought for the Day, a book of selections . 40p, from bookshops. English Regions: see column 5
Double Distress: a look at the Nspcc's work in Belfast.
The 4 o'clock Devilment: ANN HEYNO finds out what happens when school closes.
' I don't like to trouble you, doctor, but ...': DR ROBERT ANDREWS advises parents on when-and when not-to call a doctor.
Presented by Jill Burridge Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the oountry. Introduced by PETER DONALDSON
Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 9: 0 Lord our God, arise! (BBC HB 25); Canticle 6, part 1; John 17, vv 1-13 (RSV); Through all the changing scenes of life (BBC HB 481) New Every Morning, £1.00 (cloth), 50p paperback, from bookshops
The Reason Why by JOHN TOMES
Read by Margot van der Burgh ' Start at the beginning,' she said, as though the beginning were something distant and irrelevant to one who was already living with the end Producer BARBARA CROWTHEH
'At home' - with conversation, music and poems drawn mainly from his latest collection A Nip in the Air.
A Bit of the Wilderness by CATHERINE LUCY CZERKAWSKA with Some people need a garden around them. Need to build a house - fence off a bit of the wilderness. Tame it. That's you. You're just shirking a few responsibilities by pretending to be a hermit.
Producer GORDON EMSLIE
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland: 1974)
The Vnkindest Cut?
GEORGE LUCE presents a You and Yours special investigation into estate agents, building societies, surveyors, solicitors and their charges.
Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 1AA
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcaslle
from 2.0 pm Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Rev Alan Booth , director of Christian Aid
2.0-2.2 News
Womoney: MAVIS MOULLIN describes the first of the financial ages of women.
A Jekyll and Hyde Life: ANN WILLATTS sleeps in an iron lung. It's not all dust and cobwebs: LINDA HALEY looks at careers in local museums.
ROBERT GLADWELL reads Futility by WILLIAM GERDARDII: (7)
Story: Spring Cleaning Day by JOAN smith
Listen with Mother Stories,
12.00 from bookshops
with in Live Appearance by LIANE AUKIN
Rosie leaves her husband and goes to stay with her old sehoolfriend, homely Martha. Her visit has a revitalising and somewhat unexpected effect. Producer SUSANNA CAPON
(REV T. E. CATO)
Victor Lucas tells the story of a spring day in 1884 when the people of Essex felt the tremors of an earthquake. He describes vividly the panic, devastation and confusion ir many villages from Colchester to the sea.
DR A. T. j. DOLLAR. director of the British Earthquake Enquiry, explains the need to chart carefully the earthquake areas in these days of high-rise buildings and atomic power stations.
Producer GWYNL-M HENDERSON British earthquakes: page 4
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour Read by MAURICE DENHAM 3: Jawleylord Court
The 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 diiscussed this week by Renee Houston. Juno Alexander Pat Jacob , Aimi Macdonald In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer JOHN BRIDGES
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
This month marks the centenary of the birth of Maurice Ravel , the French composer whose shy, fastidious and uncompromising personality found expression in the most sensuous and exotic music. Celebration illustrates Ravel's unique musical qualities. Written by IAN HORSBRUGH
Introduced by DAVID MABLOWI Producer GILLIAN HUSH
One of the John Silence series of stories of the Supernatural and the Uncanny by Algernon Blackwood: adapted for radio by Sheila Hodgson
'Yes, you are right, it has become fashionable to deny the existence of evil. That does not unfortunately mean that evil has ceased to exist or work upon the face of the earth.'
P. J. Kavanagh invites
Kingsley Amis. Naomi Lewil and Anthony Quinlon to test their literary wits. Reader TIMOTHY KIGHTLEY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
All Done by Kindness Read by JEREMY HAWK
13: A Toast to Mrs Hovenden
preceded by Weather
