6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
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 5
In the final run-up to polling in Britain's first-ever National Referendum you can put your questions live by telephone to some of the chief exponents of the cases for and against continued membership of the European Community.
Ring Robin Day to put your questions to a leading Anti-Marketeer
Producers WALTER WALLICH and ELIZABETH SMITH Executive producer BERNARD TATE
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
Checkpoint Investigates
Fair? Well protected? Good service? Points at issue for consumers presented by Roger Cook
NEM, p 106; Father of heaven, whose love profound (BBC HB 290); Psalm 95; Acts 3, vv 1-16 (RSV); The Lord my pasture shall prepare (BBC HB 477)
Smoke without Fire by GORDON ALLEN NORTH Read by Graham Roberts
The boy had been the apple of his late grandmother's eye, and since her death the old man had found comfort in his company. And now that comfort - and the solace it had brought him - had been shat tered by the discovery that the boy was a thief.
Producer HERBERT SMITH (Manchester)
Johnny Morris
Six Suffolk stories by RONALD BLYTHE Read by Peter Tuddenham
(who narrated the film of Ronald Blythe 's Akenfield) 4: Martha and May
'No sooner had May's banns been called than a rumour swept the village that Miss Saphira Bence , the bride-groom's "cousin-german," intended to throw herself into the water butt the minute May entered the farmhouse.... Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Presenter George Luce
Bio-Rhythms: can your good days and bad days be predicted from your date of birth? How much notice should you take of ' bio-rhythms '? MOLLY PRICE-OWENS investigates.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley Editor ANDREW BOYLI
from 2.0 Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Northern Guest: Elsie Clayton , president of the National Union of Teachers
2.0-2.2 News
Wastesavar: PAT CALLAGHAN reports from Huddersfield on the Oxfam scheme to collect and re-cycle domestic waste.
Border bastel-house: new life for a fortified dwelling. Jay as it Flies by BRENDA LITTLI abridged by JANET HICKSON Read by VIRGINIA STRIDE (Final instalment)
Story:- Rub-aDub-Dub by MART FROST
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKEN
Written by GLADYS WHITRED Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Adman's Gothic by JAMES DOUGLAS
Let me tell you about Carney. Carney is an innocent. And innocence in our business is an invaluable commodity where it can be harnessed and driven. ... We must allow the innocent their occasional outbursts of righteous indignation.
(Thursdays broadcast)
Memoirs of a Station Master by FRNEST J. SIMMONS
Read by HOWARD GOORNEY (5)
(Starting next Monday: Victory by Joseph Conrad , read by John Rowe )
The news magazine: presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views Editor DEREK LEWIS
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television Producer Richard BURWOOD
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Bernard Levin
Norman St John-Stevas , up Sir Arnold Weinstock
Chairman David Jacobs from Avon
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
(Repeated: Saturday 1.15 pm)
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
followed by an interview with the Prime Minister.
Rt Hon Harold Wilson , mp, by robin DAY on major issues of the moment.
(A BBC1 presentation: Talk-In,
10.15 pm)
Chocky by JOHN WYNDHAM
Read by ANDREW BURT (5)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Book, How Money Works: 40p from bookshops
Noel Coward sings Mrs Worthington and recites his Epitaph for an Elderly Actress. He also describes his first over-exuberant appearance on the stage and gives his views on that most difficult and serious of all arts: acting in comedy.
preceded by Weather
