6.22 Farming Week: presented from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
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 John Timpson in London and Charles Wheeler in Oslo
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
examines some Scenes in Sharp Focus from the BBC Sound Archives.
aided by Sheridan Morley , Lance Percival , Esther Rant zen. 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
The books say it's impossible to tame our native wild cat. Barn cats were mentioned in Celtic laws and represented in their art. If they are not descended from the native wild cat, where do they come fromf 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
Questions to Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 13; 0 God, give ear (BBC HB 466); Psalm 103, vv 1-13; Romans 6, vv 1-14 (Jerusalem Bible); Now thank we all our God (BBC HB 277)
Pieces of Eight by KAY MCMANUS
Read by Edward Kelsey
Even now I go hot and cold all over ... me, stuck in a police station being questioned, not even being allowed to ask for a cup of tea. It was like something out of Z Cars,
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm) ‡
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
Debts Galore: as the shortage of money gets worse, how many people are getting slower in paying up? How far can you go before the debt-collector comes round? And for those owed money, how does the debt-collector work? DICK TRACEY finds out. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is naturalist and writer John Hillaby. Show more
John Hillaby, naturalist and author
12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
from 2.0 Introduced by Jjll Burridge
Afterthought Children: JEAN METCALFE talks to three'parents about the pleasures and problems they met when they added to their families after a gap of some years.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Why Don'the English Teach Their Children How to Speak?: HELEN PALMER investigates adult inarticulacy.
The Phantom Garden by SHEILA BISHOP , abridged in ten parts by MADGE HART Read by John Samson (1)
It is the summer of 1773 and Charles Stannard is pursuing a beautiful Vauxhall singer, Cella Greenwood ...
(Music: Glazunov's Raymonda) Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWI. ES
Story:David Wilkins and his Great Aunt Waggyby DOROTHY EDWARDS
More stories by Dorothy Edwards in Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00 from bookshops
West End Winners
The Chiltern Hundreds
Heavy Weather by P. G. WODEHOUSE
Read by RICHARD CARRINGTON (6)
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 Robley Special guest Mike Reid
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Elisabeth Welch
Fenella Fielding, Doris Hare Betty Hardy , Maxine Audley in SANDY WILSON'S Valmouth based on the book by RONALD FIRBANK , with Aubrey Woods , Elaine Delmar Patsy Rowlands , Donald Scott Marcia Ashton. Steven Pacey John Rye and Michael Deacon Harehotch House:
At Tooke's Farm:
At the Nook:
At the Strangers' Hotel:
Visitors and inhabitants of Valmouth:
Book, music and lyrics by SANDY WILSON
Music arranged and conducted by RICHARD HOLMES
Technical presentation GORDON BOWEN. Technical assistants
JOHN WHITEHALL, CAROL MCSHANE JANE BRINSMEAD , PETER NOVIS
Adapted for radio and produced by GLYN DEARMAN
(Doris Hare and Gordon Whit ing are in ' No Sex Please-We're British ' at the Strand Theatre, London)
The times of Sandy: page 4
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JEREMY ORLEBAR Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Mill on the Floss (6)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Book, How Money Works: 40p from bookshops
preceded by Weather
