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 tine gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham (021)-[number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with Tom Coyne and with other R4 listeners. Producer JENNY DE YONG
The lines are open from 8.0 am

The programme that investigates your complaints and problems. Presented by Roger Cook Producer LESLIE ROBINSON

NEM, p 46: Lord, it belongs not to my care (BBC HB 355): Psalm 85; Acts 16, vv 6-15 (nsv); The Church of God a kingdom is (BBC HB 183)

by Margery Allingham
Read by Cecile Chevreau
"I still have the brooch but I can hardly wear it. I don't think it is valuable, but I have never dared take it into a jeweller's to find out. It is a very awkward position..."
(Bristol)

by E. JANE RATCLIFFE abridged by EILEEN CAPEL Reader Joan Matheson 3: My Badger Explores
I started to take her exploring outside on the rough track. Wanting her to be as free as possible, 1 had no intention of tethering her by a cord. so time and patience were needed. I only had my voice with which to control her ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Presenter Derek Cooper
One, two, buckle my shoe: barring accidents, children's feet have many years of hard walking ahead of them, and JOHN IUMAN has been discovering how beat to shoe your child.

12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley

Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Simply Delicious: the Lancashire Cookery Club team of EVELYN ROSE and MARGARET TRAVIS suggesit ways of cutting down kitchen time for the summer.
2.0-2.2 News
Half a Century of Box-making: SALLY MARSHALL remembers her working life.
An Old Mill by the Stream: NICHOLAS JONES has left the theatre to become a miller. The Last Unicorn by PETER S. BEAGLE abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by PETER COPLEY (Final instalment)

Story: Billy and John - Two Cooks by DAPHNE BENHAM Presenters AURIOL SMITH and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Compiled by MARY HAYDON Producer JENYTH WORSLEY

McGrotty and Ludmilla or The Harbinger Report A political melodrama by ALISDAIR GRAY with and SHOTS: You have no friends. Don' make any. You are used to being uninteresting. Stay uninteresting and I'll make it worth your while.
MCGROTTY: Sir Shots, you're being very nice to me and I don' know what to say.... Could I phone my Mammy and tell her the good news?
SHOTS: Not even your .. hm ... Mammy. Never trust a woman. McGrotty.
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHUN

Our Hearts were Young and Gay by EMILY KIMBROUGH and CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER Read by DIANA OLSSON 5: Goodbye Europe!

Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news

(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)

Dick Tracey

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 Steve Race
Bishop of Liverpool Lynda Chalker , up Peter Jenkins
Chairman David Jacobs from Nottinghamshire 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 Answerst, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LK

American and Soviet astronauts Thomas Stafford and Alexei Leonov's symbolic handshake, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's untimely intervention about the realities of the USSR.

by ALISTAIR COOKE

Presenter P. J. Kavanagh Producer CHRIS SWANN

John Tusa reporting
Friday Special: a deeper look at a topic of the moment

Lilile Boy Lost by MARGHANITA LASKI abridged for radio in ten parts by JOY OSBORNE
Read by Richard PASCO
Producer MICHAEL BARTLETT (Final instalment)
(Richard Pasco is an associate member of the RSC)

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