6.22 Farming Week: presented from the North by KEN FORD
S.40 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to. plus the news from anywhere on earth, 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 Todav 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 (Mon-Thurs): FR AGNELLUS ANDREW. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE English Regions: see column 5
believing that ' Science Is Wonderful ' tries to use the BBC Sound Archives to prove that hi-fi gets better (even at railway stations)
(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
One night we were sitting round a glowing campfire. We were surprised to see a succession of large beetles walk in from the surrounding darkness right into the heart of the fire, till they burned away...
Explanations of this and other strange events from today's Wildlife team.
Introduced by Derek Jones
(Bristol)
NEM, p 106; Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended (BBC HB 500); Psalm 121; John 18, vv 25-38 (rsv); 0 dearest Lord, thy sacred head (BBC HB 358) New Every Morning, £1.00 (cloth), 50p (paperback), from bookshops
A series based on the story of the Passion in St John's Gospel 1: Peter
Rev. James Cotter
Producer Angela Tilby
(Tomorrow: Pilate)
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
The Customer is Always Right? Most of us have tales to tell of careless or incompetent traders. But sometimes the boot is on the other foot. NIGEL MURPHY discovers some of the trials of the Mail Order Trade.
With others items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Eric Thompson. Show more
Eric Thompson, actor, director, and Magic Roundabout storyteller, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley who devised the programme.
12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Introduced by Sue MaeGregar Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Fun for a Fiver: DAVID COOMBS on collecting on a shoestring.
Contact House: ANGELA FRANCIS visits a self-help centre run by blind people.
ROBERT GLADWELL reads Futility by WILLIAM GERHARDIE (10) abridged by DELIA PATON
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Mary-Mary has a Photograph taken by JOAN <:. ROBINSON Presenters this week
AURIOL SMITH and SEAN BARRETT Written and produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00 from bookshops
A Charge on the State by LESTER POWELL with Sion Probert , Dinsdale Landen and Penelope Lee
' Look, if you were a junkie, an alcoholic, someone who'd been in jail for bashing an OAP over the head for three quid, you'd have no problems. But you're decent. You're self-effacing, unaggressive. You're honest and truthful. You're wildly out of place in a society like this. You're an anachronism.'
Producer HARRY CATLIN
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour by R. S. SURTEES
Read by matrice DENHAM 6: Bolting the Badger
Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 medium wmie only Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cyril Fletcher
In the chair McDonald Hobley Special guest Kenneth Connor
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Editor DEREK LEWIS
Micheal Mac Liammoir tells the story of his life in five readings from his autobiographical works.
Early in 1930 the Gate Theatre opened in its own home in Dublin. Micheal Mac Liammoir played the title role in Goethe's Faust, for which he also designed and painted the set. This was a crowning moment in a long search of passionate determination.
(Northern Ireland)
by John Milton
Adapted and produced by Richard Wortley
with Stephen Thorne as Samson, Stephen Murray as Manoah, Anna Massey as Dalila, Trevor Martin as Harapha, Martin Jarvis as the Messenger
This dramatic poem takes its subject from the Bible and its form from Greek tragedy. It was almost certainly Milton's final work, first published in 1671.
"Samson, made captive, blind, and now in the prison at Gaza, there to labour as in a common work-house, on a Festival day. in the general cessation from labour, comes forth into the open air."
(Repeated: Sunday 27 April)
(Anna Massey is a National Theatre player)
A nightly review of books. films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Producer SARA DUNANT
Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Editor DEREK LEWIS
An Unimpeachable Source by DAVID WHEELER abridged in 14 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by DAVID PONTING (3)
Radio 4's International Business Report: Market Trends
Book. How Money Works, 40p, from bookshops
preceded by Weather
