S.22 Farming Today
6.4O Prayer for the Day REV JOHN CONGDON
Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather; at C.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
and investigates the humour of the subject with the help of Alfred Marks and the voices of MICHAEL BEN-
TINE. PETER COOK , JONATHAN MILLER. DUDLEY MOORE. MIKE NICHOLS and ELAINE MAY, MICHAEL FLAND-ERS and DONALD SWANN Producers SIMON BRETT and JOHN LLOYD
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country.
Introduced by PAULINE BUSHNELL Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 21: Blessed Jesus. at thy word (BBC HB 257); Canticle 9: Romans 7, vv 1-13 (Jerusalem Bible); Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137)
Germ of Friendship by EILEEN HOTS
Read by Preston Lockwood
After all. the young man thought, what was his research worth without the human element? The old doctor sounded as if he might be interesting. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
The Wooden Hill by MARGARET HARRIS
' You're past my understanding, and that's a fact. You're willing to go out and skivvy for eight hours a week to waste your money on things for a room that's never used, when you could be taking it easy and making money just by letting the place like any sensible woman would do.'
Producer MARGARET ETALL
(Avis Bunnage is in ' Billy ' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
Paying for the Law: does Legal Aid reach all the people who need it? Should we rethink our legal services to produce a National Law Service? A discussion chaired by STUART FORSYTHE.
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Russell Harty
2.6-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Unwelcome Guests (i): Fleas. Will We Have to Move?: a family faces the prospect of redundancy at Ebbw Vale Steel Works.
JOHN SAMSON reads
The Phantom Garden (3)
Stories:Sidney's Removalby BARBARA RODGER , and The Little Red Tractor by MRS JOYCE RUSHBY
The Testament
A comedy by JOHN CANNON
So often the reading of a last will and testament sparks off long-concealed resentments. For Billy Kershaw it could mean the chance of a new life-unless Lizziemay has her way.
The concertina played by TERRY LYNCH
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
That was Beethoven's opinion of our National Anthem. Fritz Spiegl looks at some ways in which composers have made use of God Save the Queen and uncovers a few knavish tricks played on it.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH (Manchester)
He's playing our tune: p 4
Heavy Weather (8)
William Hardcastle and PM reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
In the chair Terry Wogan On the panel
Anona Winn. Brian Johnston William Rushton and Bettine le Beau
Voice GRETTA GOURIET Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
on behalf of the Conservative Party
You and the Common Market
Ring Cliff Michelmore to put your questions on the EEC and ! regional policies to
Douglas Henderson , Scottish ! National MP for Aberdeen East, : and Wyn Roberts , Conservative MP for Conway
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm until the end o/ the programme
A portrait of J.M.W. Turner written and presented by David Thompson
'Though thoroughly modest, yet he had a full appreciation of his own merits, and no-one so much enjoyed his exquisite pictures as he did himself. It was a matter of real sorrow to him to part with any favourite picture, and on more than one occasion, when he had been looking graver than usual, and I have asked if anything vexed him, he has said, "No, only I've been sending some of my children away today."'
J.M.W. Turner was born 200 years ago on Shakespeare's birthday, 23 April 1775. Few people in his lifetime knew or understood him. But there are many written accounts of his appearance, his behaviour and his conversation which, taken together with Turner's own writings, provide a vivid human portrait of England's greatest painter.
with Anthony Nicholls as J.M.W. Turner
and BETTY BASKCOMB, JOHN BOLL, KATE COLERIDGE, GARARD GREEN, MICHAEL SHANNON, PETER WILLIAMS
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Anthony Nicholls is in 'A Family and a Fortune' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
Presenter Nigel Rees Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stnart reporting
The Mill on the Floss by GEORGE EI.IOT
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (8)
preceded by Weather
