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 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
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham (021) -4M 5432 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
The programme that investigates your consumer problems, presented by Roger Cook Producer LESLIE ROBINSON
nem, p 21; Lord of mercy and of might (BBC HB 295); Psalm 1; Acts 13, vv 1-12 (RSV); Christ for the world we sing! (BBC HB 172)
from Northern Ireland The Hurling Match by WALTER MACKEN
Read by J. J. Murphy
The game of hurling seemed particularly designed to waste energy. It was as old as Ireland - older. It was as old as the ash tree from which the hurleys were shaped. The best hurlers had to be light of foot and quick of eye, like dancers. Twister really thought of all the beauty of its playing as waste
Producer PAUL MULDOON
Secombe and Son
byE.JANERATCLIFFE abridged by EILEEN CAPEL Reader Joan Matheson 2: My Badger Settles In
1 In' a bed of straw in a little wooden box on the car seat I earried her home ... she was in no state to be introduced to her sett; medical attention was urgently needed.... '
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Presenter George Luce
Life in Hospital: the life of the long-stay patient is discovered by JOAN YORKE-3: In a Psychiatric Ward.
And a different kind of treatment: SANDRA MARTIN explores naturopathy.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from Birmingham
Introduced by Maureen Staffer Old Enough to be Her Father: PETER WINDOWS looks at relationships where the man is the older partner.
2.0-2.2 News
Back to Work: DAVID LLOYD visits a unique rehabilitation centre in Birmingham.
Hows your Turn, Mum?: JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH With a slimming idea for you and your friends.
The Lost Unicorn (9)
Story:The Three Little Pigsadapted by JEAN SUTCLIFFE Presenters AURIOL SMITH and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Written and produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
by Michael Hobson
with Anna Carteret, Isabel Dean, Basil Moss and Anthony Ainley
'Tell me this: if I'd been born a man, what would you think of me? Call a man an adventurer and there's admiration - even envy - in the word. But call a woman an adventuress and there's every kind of social contempt implied.'
(Stereo)
Continuing the discussion In last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
Arthur Askey reads his autobiography Before Your Very Eyes abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
10: Behind the Heart Producer ROGER pine (Birmingham
(Starting on Monday: Our Hearts were Young and Gay by Emily Kimbrough and Cornelia Otis Skinner )
The news magazine: presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Chairman Robert Robinson * 16: Midlands
MARK BROADHEAD , insurance clerk miss WINIFRED lawson , retired teacher
TREVOR LEWIS , marketing manager including ' Beat the Brains *
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Ray Gowdridge presenting world news and views
MARGARET HOWARD presents her personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television. Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Rosamund John Alastair Burnet Lord Oaksey
Rt Hon Cledwyn Hughes , MP Chairman David Jacobs from Gwynedd
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
(Rptd: Sat 1.15; Mon 11.5 am)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to Any Answersf, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
1.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Friday Special: a deeper look St. a topic of the moment
Little Boy Lost by MARGHANITA LASKI
Read by RICHARD PASCO (5)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES 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 JOHN LLOYD
preceded by Weather
