6.22 Farming Week: presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
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 S.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
continues his investigation, of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
and prepare to be highly amused, mildly shocked, but always stimulated, as he, Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Rob inson, Fritz Splegl. Lance Percival , Sheridan Morley and their guests entertain you for the next unpredictable hour. Producer HUGH PURCELL.
talks about gardens open this summer in aid of the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society and the Royal Gardeners' Orphan Fund.
Booklet, Gardens to Visit, 15p from bookshops
Why do motes build mole-hills - and when a mole makes one, are the hindquarters uppermost or the head and fore-pawst
Just one of the fascinating problems put to the Wildlife team in this questions session. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
Questions to Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 114; Hark, the glad sound, the Saviour comes (BBC HB 490); Psalm 42; Romans 2. v 25 to 3. v 9 (Jerusalem Bible); Lord, who in thy perfect wisdom (BBC HB 231)
Clerical Caput by W. MONTAGU EVERITT
Read by Carleton Hobbs
Rev Slabworthy was a very ordinary, everyday sort of individual ... He had not acquired his somewhat unusual faculty by design ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter George Luce
The Worry and Fear of Redundancy (hi): NANCY WISE finds out what other financial help you can be entitled to in addition to unemployment benefit, redundancy payments and help with your mortgage. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Patricia Hayes. Show more
Patricia Hayes. actress
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Fun for a Fiver (ii): DAVID COOMBS on starting a collection. Reading your letters.
Why Don't the English Teach Their Children How to Speak?: HELEN PALMER investigates verbal deprivation.
PENELOPE LEE reads Mrs Beer 's House by PATRICIA BEER (6)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Chick, Chicklet and Chick-a-ling by ivy EASTWICK
The Terrible Connexion by MICHAEL ROBSON
by P.G. Wodehouse abridged in ten parts and read by Richard Carrington
Monty Bodkin is hired as secretary by the ninth Earl of Emsworth of Blandings Castle. The clouds thicken over Shropshire as the plot thickens, but the comedy is as sparkling as ever.
(Bristol)
Wodehouse Playhouse begins at 9.25 pm on Wednesday, BBC1
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team*
5.50 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 Erian Rix
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
by Bernard Shaw
with Alan Badel as Caesar and Sarah Badel as Cleopatra
Bernard Shaw's famous 'history' takes a typically Shavian view of these two famous characters
with David March as the God Ra, Beatrix Lehmann as Ftatateeta, Peter Woodthorpe as Pothinus, Hector Ross as Rufio, Nigel Lambert as Britannus, Sandor Eles as Apollodorus
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer DAVID PERRY Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
by George Eliot abridged and read in 20 instalments by Gabriel Woolf
Early in the 19th century Mr Tulliver owned Dorlcote Mill and here, amid the roar of water and rural industry, Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom grew up-two very different people with very different temperaments, destined to be separated in life but united at its end.
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather