6.22 Farming Today
This week: introduced from the Royal Show ait Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, by ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV ARTHUR YATES
IntroducedbyJohnTimpson 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, including news from Kuala Lumpur of the World Heavyweight title fight between .Muhammad All and Joe Bugner ; Today's Papers at
7.35 and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. English Regions: tee column 5
Play
With the approach of the school holidays, thousands of children will have time on their hands through the summer. They need to play. But there will be many children who will be denied the right of play simply because there is nowhere for them to play and no one has shown them how to play positively.
How many open spaces are available to children during the summer? Should all toddlers have access to sand and tpatert Could we make more use of our school buildings during the holidayst
Put your questions and comments to Drummond Abernethy of the National Playing Fields Association and Brenda Crowe , national adviser to the PreSchool Playgroups Association. In the chair Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 9.0 am Violent playground: page 4
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
nem, p 110; Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost (BBC HB 153); Psalm 16; 1 Corinthians 12, vv 12-20 (av); Beloved, let us love: for love is of God (BBC HB 373)
A Boy in Clover by ROBIN MARCHAL
Read by Brian Hewlett
I'll give up this job today. After all, I'm down here to enjoy meself. His cool blue eyes brightened. Night-time was his enjoyment . , . tonight ... Rachel ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
The Double Acts
GEORGE LAYTON takes a young man's look at some of the great partnerships in entertainment, including MARTIN AND LEWIS, FLANAGAN AND ALLEN, ELSIE AND DORIS WATERS, RAWICZ AND LANDAUER, THE WESTERN BROTHERS, JEWEL AND WARRISS and MORECAMBE AND WISE.
finds in the Sound Archives a reflection of his own experiences writing and travelling all over the world.
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
Family - Large or Small? Rene Wyndham discusses the pros and cons with the mother of an only child and the mother of six.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, [address removed]
starring
Kenneth Williams with GORDON CLYDE , JOHN BADDELIY and MIRIAM MARGOLYES The Analysis by LESLIE RANDALL
Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Introduced by Sandi Jones
A Handful of Tears: BRENDA KIDMAN has written a book describing how her series cf Woman's Hour broadcasts about a Kenyan Asian family led her to India and changed her life.
A Handful of Tears: £4.00 from bookshops
Reading your letters.
Other People's Kitchens: DILYS MORGAN Visits KATIE STEWART to see what she wants in - and from - her kitchen.
Home and Away: PAUL BARNES visits the Centre for International Briefing. The Last Unicorn by PETER S. BEAGLE abridged in 14 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Peter Copley (1)
True to the tradition of fantasy, The Last Unicorn is the story of a quest, the search by the unicorn - immortal, infinitely beautiful - for her lost fellows.
(Music: Grace Williams's Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes)
Story: Kamau and the Bracelet by E. M. PHILLIPS
6: In Conclusion
Arthur Askey reads his autobiography Before Your Very Eyes 2: A Little Caution
William Hardcastle and PM s reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A domestic comedy about retirement written by ANNE JONES starring and with Dinner Dance withand
Home to Roost theme by ALEX WELSH , played by ALEX WELSH AND HIS BAND
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Birmingham)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Presenter Nigel Rees
Producer SARAH DUNANT
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
Sir John Gielgud reads from the Sonnets, and he is joined by Irene Worth in scenes from the plays. gramophone records
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Mvsterious Commission by MICHAEL INNES
Read by ALAN DUDLEY (7)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather