6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Da; STANLEY BRINKMAN
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 English Regions: see column 5
Holidays without Parents
The idea of children going on holiday without their parents is becoming increasingly popular. But what sort of holiday should they have and what effect is it likely to have on them and their parents? Is going to Gratitty a good thing? Are Scout camps fun - or fiendish'
Ann Heyno has been talking to mums. dads and children about the pleasures and hazards of holidays without parents.
Producer MARY REOCLIFFE
Parents and Children, 60p from bookshops
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.
Introduced by PAULINE BUSHNELL Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 13; Love of love and light of light (BBC HB 521); Psalm 116; 1 Corinthians 15, vv 30-44a (av); My soul, there is a country (BBC HB 526)
Hello - Remember Me? by DOUGLAS RAILTON
Read by David March
All that day Renzo and his team of government experts had been touring a drab, sprawling village in the mountains of southern Italy .. But as he went about, introducing himself, he could almost have touched the hostility around him ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Donkey Business by KARL JOHN SON
' I've always been my own boss ... so I'm not likely to start changing now. Besides, wouldn't be a seaside without donkey rides ...'
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)
Presenter George Luce
No Entry - Private Road: can residents really enforce such a sign? DICK TRACEY sees how far the law can help.
Second Round
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 16: Midlands
MARK BROADHEAD, insurance clerk miss WINIFRED LAWSON , retired teacher
TREVOR LEWIS , marketing manager including ' Beat the Brains '
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , who, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions.
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
William Hardcastle
Introduced by Sandi Jones Guest of the Week:
Frank Bough , presenter of Grandstand and Nationwide
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters
' What am I bid? ': DAVID LLOYD visits an auction for young couples furnishing their first home on a low budget.
Herrings, White Bread and Hot-pot: ANTONIA RIDGE tells a story of the Dutch city of Leiden.
PETER COPLEY reads The Last Unicorn by PETER S. BEAGLE (7)
Stories:Dot's Bicycleby RUTH AINSWORTH and Penny's Paper People by JILL ROWE
Just a Few Home Truths by NANCY BLACKETT with Annette Crosbie and Michael Shannon
For Ruth and Neville there are no happy memories of childhood. When a family crisis calls sister and brother home, they come reluctantly - to discover just a few home truths.
Piano played by MARY NASH Producer JOHN CARDY
Some musical facts you didn't know you were missing read by Victor Borge from his book
My Favourite Intervals
Illustrated with the music of Offenbach
Producer JOHN BROWELL
Arthur Askey reads his autobiography Before Your Very Eyes 8: Big Down Under
William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
In the chair Terry Wogan On the panel
Anona Winn , Brian Johnston William Rushton and Bettine le Beau
Voice GRETTA GOURIET. Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
by P.G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
Adapted by Chris Miller from the book "Thank You, Jeeves"
The Private Life of George III Written by NESTA PAIN , with Robert Stephens as George III 2: The Later Years
Narrator Roger Snowdon
' In a most affecting manner. he complained to me of the situation of a King in a Strait Waistcoat. He opened his waistcoat and showed us the strait waistcoat, taking down its long sleeves and strings. Never shall I forget the painful and unpleasant sight! Heavens! What a spectacle to see the dear, afflicted King standing in a strait waistcoat and tucking up himself the sleeves and strings until they might be wanted. After that, he walked about and talked wildly.' with the voices of CAROLE BOYD , EVA HADDON
DENIS MCCARTHY , PETER PACEY
EMILY RICHARD and HECTOR ROSS Producer JOHN THEOCHARtS
(Robert Stephens is in ' Murderer ' at the Garrick Theatre, London)
The second of eight programme* in which John Ebdon introduces a potpourri of recordings taken from the BBC Sound Archives, in which famous literary and artistic people talk about themselves, their work, their inspirations - and each other.
Producer NATALIE WHEEN
Presenter Nigel Rees
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
Douglas Stuart reporting
Little Boy Lost (3)
preceded by Weather
