6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
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; Today's Papers at 7.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 English Regions: see column S
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Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham (021)-[number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners. Producer JENNY de YONG
The lines are open from 8.0 am
Checkpoint for Consumers. An investigative programme presented by Roger Cook
Producer LESLIE ROBINSON
nem, p 71: Blest are the pure in heart (BBC HB 318); Psalm 145, vv 1-13: 1 Corinthians 1. v 26, to 2. v 5 (AV): The Lord is King! (BBC HB 26)
from Northern Ireland Exposure by TOM MACINTYRE
Read by Trudy Kelly
Drowning, she thrashed, and clutched for the branches swinging beyond, above her. Someone held and pulled her against the bank, on to the crusted mud.
Producer PAUL MULDOON
Sir John Betjeman , the Poet Laureate, introduces and reads. with JILL BALCON and GARY WATSON , a programme of poems about animals, including: D. H. LAWRENCE Bat
TENNYSON The Kraken BLAKE The Lamb
KEATS Ode to a Nightingale TED HUGHES Pike
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
(Jill Balcon is in A Family and a Fortune ' at the Apollo Theatre. London)
Presenter Nancy Wise
The Sun has got its Hat on but have you got your sunglasses on? Need you? ANDY PRICE fixes his gaze in a cool look at sunglasses. Are they useful or harmful and what should you pay? We have some of the answers.
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 headilines introduced by Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Remembering the Hebrides: LILLIAN BECKWiTH now lives and writes in the Isle of Man.
2.0-2.2 News
For Recorder Players Only: KEITH DANIELS visits an unusual scheme at St,ockport.
Never Too Late: GLADYS ELDER is a student at 75. MADGE RYAN reads
Miss Elizabeth Arden by A. A. LEWIS and c. WOODWORTH (8)
Story: The January Giant by SISTER OLGA
Presenters AURIOL SMITH and SEAN BARRETT
WriMen by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
The Litmus Question by LEONARD BARNETT
' Are you seriously suggesting there was nothing you could have done to prevent yourself becoming as you are? ' ' Yes, I am. I nearly went crazy trying.'
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions/ Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD (Thursday broadcast)
The Limbo Line by VICTOR CANNING abridged by NEVILLE TELLER Read by ALAN BARRY
9: A Shape like the Map of Australia
(Starting next Monday: A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble, re-ad by Elizabeth Morgan)
Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television. Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP, Lord Houghton, Sheila Hancock, Antony Jay.
Chairman David Jacobs
from Gloucestershire
(Rptd: Sat 1.15: Mon 11.5 am)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to Any Answers?, [address removed]
Presenter P. J. Kavanagh Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Friday Special: a deeper look at a topic of the moment
Jack Would Be a Gentleman by GILLIAN FREEMAN abridged by JANET HICKSON Read by DIANA BISHOP Producer GERRY JONES (Final instalment!
(Starting next Monday: The Mysterious Commission by Michael Innes , read by Alan Dudley )
Radio 4's International Business Report: Market Trends
BILL WALLIS , NIGEL REES CHRIS EMMETT 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 SIMON BRETT
preceded by Weather
