6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD BARRIES
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 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 Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
English Regions: see column S
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham ([number removed]) and discuss your point of view on the air with Geosge Scott and with other R4 listeners. Producer JENNY DE YONG The lines are open from 8.0 am
The programme that minds the consumer's business and investigates matters that concern you. Presenter Roger Cook
NEM, p 30; 0 sacred head, sore wounded (BBC HB 533); Canticles 5; Romans 7, v 14 to 8, v 4 (Jerusalem Bible); Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (BBC HB 369)
The Restoration of His Resplendency by ROSINA UMELO
Read by Juliet Cooke
I always said he was a King
Cat,' said Arthur eagerly. - Perhaps there's been a revolution and he's been sent into exile.' ' In that case,' said Johnny, who read the same library books, ' there ought to Be a usurper here.'
Producer HERBERT SMITH
Six Suffolk stories by RONALD BLYTHE
Read by Peter Tuddenham
(who narrated the film of Ronald Blythe 's Akenfield)
1: My Uncle and the Widder
People who live in egg-box flats and shoe-box bungalows and who sit in cramped offices can have no idea at aU of the spaciousness of my Uncle Jake's existence ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER Country matters: page 5
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Treatment on a Bus: DICK TRACEY discovers what ' behaviour therapy ' is and how it works.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
Editor ANDREW BOYLI
from 2.0
Introduced from Bristol by Daphne Hubbard
What Happens to the Victims after the Crime?: Bristol Victims Support Scheme is trying to find the answer.
2.0-2.2 News
Nowhere to Go: a small community campaigning for somewhere to relax out of doors.
Taking a Chance: why do women become compulsive gamblers?
JOHN SAMSON reads
The Phantom Garden by SHEILA BISHOP (5)
Stories:The Two Little Men and The Toad and Billy Windby ANDREW M. WILKINSON
Presenters MAUREEN MORRIS and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Written by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
The Old Avro by H. C. COURTENAY-WELLS with derson
I went back to my father's farm after the war. I used to walk behind the plough, with the steam coming off the horses in the cold air ... I'd watch the gulls flying overhead and gliding out across the sea till I could stand it no more ... I had the flying in my blood!
Producer GERRY JONES
(Sam Dastor is in ' The Tempest ' at Wyndham's Theatre, London)
Heavy Weather by p. P.G. WODEHOUSE
Abridged in ten parts and read by RICHARD CARRINGTON (Final instalment)
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A nationwide general knowledge contest
Chairman Robert Robinson
6: Midlands and East Anglia (ii)
DAVID MORRIS , weather forecaster
MISS WINIFRED LAWSON , retired teacher
STEPHEN WYCHERLEY , bookseller SQUADRON LEADER COWING retired RAF officer including ' Beat the Brains'
Programme devised by JOHN P WYNN , who, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Paul Burden
Editor DEREK LEWI1
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television. Producer MADEAU STEWART
A spontaneous discussion by Clive Jenkins
Rt Hon Edward Du Cann , MP Ned Sherrin
Lady Antonia Fraser
Chairman David Jacobs from Essex
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
Presenler Paul Vanghan Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
Friday Special: a deeper took at one of today's big issues Editor DEREK LEWIS
The Mill on the Floss by GEORGE ELIOT
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (ID
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH DAVID RENWICK and others Producer JOHN LLOYD
preceded by Weather
12.1 am Inshore forecast
