6.32 Farming Today
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Producer ANTHONY PARKIN (Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 55-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 medium wave Keep Fit for All the Family, with EILEEN FOWLER , or VHF Regional news and weather; at 7.55 Weather and programme news
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40-
Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad.
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week In Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ALAN WATKINS
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
SIMON JENKINS reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PETER DONALDSON Narrator PAULINE BUSHNELL Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER and BERNARD TATS
New Every Morning, page 75; Put thou thy trust in God (BBC HB 313); Psalm 112; 1 Corinthians 2, vv 6-16 (AV); Thine arm. 0 Lord, in days of old (BBC HB 382)
New Every Morning, £1.00 from bookshops
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items. Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
Presenter Brian J. Ford
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad Producers DAVID PATERSON
MICHAEL BRIGHT, THELMA RUMSET
Music by Komzák. Millöcker. Johann and Josef Strauss , Ziehrer. Lanner and Suppe played by the JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA Of
VIENNA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY gramophone records
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP, Lord Houghton, Sheila Hancock, Antony Jay
from Gloucestershire
Sir Hugh Casson , architect and Professor of Environmental Design at the Royal College of Art, says that his understanding of music has been developed by his personal and professional associations with the theatre and the concert hall - he has designed productions and buildings. His choice of records includes ITZMAK PERLMAN playing a violin concerto by Bach, NETANIA DAVRATH singing one of the Songs of the Auvergne, as well as DUKE EILINGTON playing Mood Indigo and TURNER LAYTON singing Transatlantic Lullaby,
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by ERIC WETHERELL
Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Bizet Prelude (L' Arlésienne: Suite No 1)
Kodaly Summer Evening
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite
John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners. Chief Inspector Chief of Scot-1l»■*itli'AIltW•.wlr.m.3n■».nw...rrm«
MICHAEL ROLFE with Nigel Anthony , Peter Pacey and Stephen Thorne
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
4.5* Time Well Spent
BRIAN TRUEMAN looks at things for you to do, to make and to collect.
This month: a do-it-yourself weather centre; collecting crested china; and making a piggy bank.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
4.25* Edwards' Ark
PERCY EDWARDS imitates and talks about animals of your choice.
Producer NICK HANDEL
4.30* The Quest for the Severed Head
A four-part serial play by MODWENA SEDGWICK
2: Entering Enemy Territory
Producer HERBERT SMITH Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
in informal conversation with Dennis Barker , Dr Edward de Bono , Benny Green and who knows who else
Musical ideas and comments by JOHN GOULD
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Sir Maurice Yonge, FRS, marine biologist, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley who devised the programme.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
Strictly in Confidence A play for radio by MALCOLM STEWART with Mr Drew appears to have international contacts - gets phone calls from all over the place. Well, he's made a big impression on one of the guests at the hotel. A wiidow with a tot of money and not much sense; and she's dead keen to get him advising her about investment. He told me, confidentially, she was a bloody nuisance.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
(Prunella Scales is in 'A Journey to London ' at the Greenwich Theatre. London; Megs Jenkins in ' Not in the Book' at the Richmond Theatre, Surrey)
9.58 Weather
Louis Allen , Anthony Howard and Professor John Vaizey with Brian Redhead
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON
Evening prayer for a Mid-summer Day led by CANON PETER FIRTH
preceded by Weather