6.22 Farming Week: presented from East Anglia by DAVID RICHARDSON
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morning, what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, 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; Today's Papers at
7.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 English Regions: see column 5
examines some Scenes in Sharp Focus from the BBC Sound Archives.
aided by Sheridan Morley, Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson, Fritz Spiegl.
Enjoy a mixture of argument, humour and music as they meet personalities, preview the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead.
Noticing a lot of blue tit activity round our new nest box, we decided to have a look inside. Much to our surprise we found two nests, one with eggs and the other with very young birds.
A housing shortage in the bird world? The Wildlife team comments.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
nem, p 79: High in the heavens, eternal God (BBC HB 9); Canticle 6, part 2; 1 Corinthians 3, vv 1-9 (AV); 0 food of men wayfaring (BBC HB 209)
The Pitman's Cat by GEORGE HITCHIN
Read by Gordon Faith
Geordie sat on his haunches in the cage, hugging the cat to his chest. There was a jangle of signal bells ... a surge and the cage dropped away into the darkness.... The cat twitched slightly but kept quiet ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
Presenter Jeanine McMullen
Income Tax Returns: have you at last finished this year's and look forward with dread to an even more complicated one next spring? There may be a ray of hope for you. JEANINE MCMULLEN finds OUt. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is marine biologist Sir Maurice Yonge. Show more
Sir Maurice Yonge , FRS, marine biologist, with ROY PLOMLEY
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.00-2.20 News
Reading your letters.
Urban Gorillas: Roger Maynard discovers some 'civilised' gorillas in Jersey Zoo. For Your Booklist: June Knox-Mawer chooses some recent novels.
Hearts: Pru Leith proves that offal isn't awful.
Madge Ryan reads Miss Elizabeth Arden by A.A.Lewis and C. Woodworth (9)
Deputy editor Teresa McGonagle
Editor Wyn Knowles
Story: The Bottle Tree by DOROTHY EDWARDS
Listen with Mother Stories,
12.00 from bookshops
Strictly in Confidence
A Summer Bird-Cage bv MARGARET DRABBLE abridged in five parts and read by Elizabeth Morgan (1)
A Summer Bird-Cage, Margaret Drabble 's first novel published in 1963, centres around Sarah, bright, attractive and newly down from Oxford, and her sister, the beautiful Louise who has just made a brilliant marriage but now finds that things seem to be going badly wrong. Producer GERRY JONES
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler
Wool Over Their Eyes With NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY. JOHN GRAHAM Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
by Dorothy L. Sayers, adapted in six parts by Chris Miller
Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter, Peter Jones as Bunter
Tom Tytham by PETER RUSSELL with Christopher Good
Emily Richard , Diana Bishop and Gerald Flood
At the end of Peter Russell 's earlier play, Master Sunshine, Tom Tytham. son of the local squire, left his village to serve in the 1914-18 war. Now the war is over and Tom returns to his village and his family to find that life has changed, and Sybil, the girl he loved, has changed too.
Other parts:
CAROLE BOYD and KATHLEEN HELME Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: next Sun 2.30 pm)
(Andrew Sachs is in No Sex Please, We're British' at the Strand Theatre. London)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer SARAH DUNANT Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Mysterious Commission by MICHAEL INNES abridged in ten parts by MADGE HART
Read by Alan Dudley (1)
When portrait painter Charles Honeybath is spirited away to a remote country house for a fortnight to paint the likeness of a mysterious Mr X, it soon becomes obvious that those who have so expensively hired him have an ulterior motive for doing so. Are not strange things going on in Mr Honeybath's studio during his absence? And what possible value could attach to the portrait of an elderly lunatic? Producer JOHN CARDY
Radio 4's International Business Report: Market Trends
Book, How Money Works, 40p, from bookshops
preceded by Weather
