6.22 Farming Week: presented from the North by KEN FORD
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morntag, 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 and 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35* and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p, from bookshops English Regions: see column 5
examines some Scenes in Sharp Focus from the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
and prepare to be highly amused, mildly shocked but always stimulated as he, David Jessel, Sheridan Morley, Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson, Fritz Spiegl and their guests entertain you for the next unpredictable hour.
Why do small birds mob owls? Who's dug holes in my lawn and put cherry stones in themt Why is the newt in my pond working himself into a frenzyt Answers to these and other questions from the team of wildlife experts.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 30; Jesu, grant me this, I pray (BBC HB 517); Psalm 31; Acts 14, vv 8-26 (RSV); When I survey the wondrous Cross (BBC HB 97)
The Georgian Vase by D. V. WRIGHT
Read by John Hollis
Alf had bought it at a sale. 'Genuine Georgian,' he had announced proudly to Molly. I give a fiver for it an' I reckon it's worth a 'undred. But we ain' going to sell yet, Moll. We'll wait till its mate comes aLong. If we 'ad the pair we might get four or five 'undred quid ... '
Producer TANIA GARNER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Derek Cooper
More about the Capital Transfer Tax: Robin Hood never had these problems. PAMELA DEEDES analyses the high cost of giving away your wealth. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Dave Allen. Show more
Dave Allen, comedian, 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
Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Introduced by Sandi Jones Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters
Fun for a Fiver: DAVID COOMBS on starting a collection.
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON cow reporting. PETER COPLEY reads The Last Unicorn by PETER S. BEAGLE (10)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Poor Blue Horace by MARGARET GORE
More stories by Margaret Gore in Little Pig and the Big Potato: 25p from bookshops
Peter Williams and Isabel Dean in Look on This Picture by MALCOLM STEWART with Ramsay Williams , Carole Boyd and Peter Woodthorpe
Our Hearts were Young and Gay by EMILY KIMBROUGH and CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER abridged in five parts by ALISON PLOWDEN
Read by Diana Olsson
1920 - and two young and Innocent American girls with a zest for life launch themselves upon an unsuspecting Europe. The result is disastrous - and very funny.
1: Abandon Ship/
Producer KAY PATRICK
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
.55 Weather, programme news
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in The Cabinet Crisis With NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY , JOHN GRAHAM Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views Editor DEREK LEWIS
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in six parts by CHRIS MILLER Starring with and 4: Exhumation
Producer SIMON BRETT
Confession by IAN RODGER
' What I am telling you ts that I, Leon Aquila , shot the greatest poet of Spain. I, as a young mam who didn' know any better. No, that is wrong too. I did know better. But I went against that better knowledge.'
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds) (Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)
Presenter Nigel Rees
Producer SARAH DUNANT Editor ROSEMARY HART i.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world Editor DEREK LEWIS
Little Boy Lost
Read by RICHARD pasco (8)
produced by Weather
