6.22 Farming Today '
6.40 Prayer for the Day ROSEMARY WAKELIN
Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
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. English Regions: see column 5
and investigates its humour with the help of Alfred Marks and the voices of PETER COOK , DUDLEY MOORE
DONALD SWANN , JIMMY EDWARDS DICK BENTLEY , JUNE WHITFIELD BOB NEWHART and WOODY ALLEN 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 71; 0 worship the Lord (BBC HB 267); Canticle 7; Romans 14, vv 1-13 (Jerusalem Bible); Jesus shall reign (BBC HB 460)
The Exam by CELIA FREMLIN Read by Diana Olsson
At first, she thought it was one of those dreams again ... ' But I do know it! ' she would scream - or try to scream
When did we last have Chocolate Biscuits? by PETER SILCOCK
1 You can owe yourself on many things . , . but to owe yourself money is to fracture a fundamental rule of economics ... Anyway, I don' really mind doing without toothpaste.'
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)
Presenter Nancy Wise
Who Foots the Bill?: it sounds like a good holiday idea to swop your home, but what if something goes wrong? DAVID HAWKSWORTB investigates
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Lady Barnett
2.0-2.2 News
After a Mastectomy: BETTY WESTGATE and RETTA BALL offer practical help to patients who have had a breast operation.
Cooking the Jewish Way (3): main dish soups, EVELYN ROSE'S suggestions for stretching the food pound.
Crossroads of the Countryside: ANNA PERRY surveys the English hedge - past, present and threatened future.
VIRGINIA STRIDE reads Joy as tt Flies by BRENDA LITTLEK (3)
Story: Margaret Ellen Keeps a Secret by KATHLEEN RAMSAY
Book of stories, Margaret Ellen , 20p from bookshops
The Fall and Rise of Big Artbnr with Eric Allan as Arthur
' Arthur has seen his heart's desire and he feels that everything and everybody is conspiring to stop him getting it. It's as good a basis for a tragedy as any I know.'-
Producer BARRY CATLIN
A day in the life of country vet. James Herriot. JEANINE MCMULLEN travels with him on his rounds of Yorkshire hill-farms. Herriot, now one of the best-selling authors in the .world. still prefers to spend his days up to his armpit inside cows finding out why they cannot hold in calf, rather than living a life of luxury in the Bahamas.
Producer PETER DE ROSA
The Pastures of Heaven by JOHN STEINBECK
Read by RAMSAY WILLIAMS 3: The MaUbys
The news magazine: presented by William Rardcastle and PM s reporting team
5.54 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tldmarsh
You and the C linon Market
The last in our series of programmes giving you a chance, before the Referendum. of putting your points, questions and arguments on this great issue. This edition will provide an opportunity of covering the whole range of problems raised by British membership of the European Economic Communitv. Your guests:
Rt Hon Anthony Wedgwood Benn, hp. Secretary of State for Industry, who wants us to get out:
Rt Hon Reginald Maudling , up, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, who thinks we should stay in. Presenter Robin Day
Producer WALTER WALLICH
Call 01-580-4411 from 6.6 pm
The Story of Vicky by ELIZABETH HOLFORD with Doran Godwin as Vicky and Renée Asherson as Queen Victoria
The significant and eventful life of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter Princess Victoria, or ' Vicky ' as she was affectionately oaUed by her parents. Married to Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1857 and removed to the rigours of Junker-dominated Berlin, she became a leading adversary of Bismarck. Empress of Germany and mother of Wilhelm II - the living embodiment of the destruction of all her hopes. with EVA HADDON
HECTOR ROSS and DAVID RYALL
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
The Mill on the Floss (18)
preceded by Weather