6.32 Farming Today
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Producer ANTHONY PARKIN (Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 60-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 medium wave Keep Fit for All the Family, with EILEEN FOWLER , or VHF Regional news and weather; at 7.55 Weather and programme news At 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with DAVID WOOD
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
BRIAN CONNELL reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by SHEILA TRACY Narrator COLIN DORAN
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER , BERNARD TATE
NEM, p 50; When all thy mercies (BBC HB 22); Psalm 86; Acts 16, vv 16-32 (RSV): 0 thou not made with hands (BBC HB 180)
Puzzled over questions that don't seem to have answers? Wonder what scientific research is up to? This is your opportunity to talk directly on the telephone to a panel of scientists.
In the chair Professor John Taylor , Department of Mathematics, King's College, London This week's panel:
Prof Eric Lalthwaite , electrical engineer
Prof Michael Day , anatomist Dr Chris Evans , psychologist Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
Write, with your questions and telephone number, to Dial-a-Scientist, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Steve Race. Bishop of Liverpool Lynda Chalker , MP Peter Jenkins
: as Radio 3
: as Radio 3
Introduced by John Dunn
Arthur Poskitt
by BRIAN THOMPSON
with John Franklyn Robbins and Carole Hayman
3: Diamonds in Amsterdam
Producer TONY CLIFF
4.5* Talk Up
A monthly discussion with DAVINA WEIR in the chair, to talk out things that matter to young people. She is joined by SIMON MORRIS in Manchester
AMANDA CAIRNS in Birmingham TIM MORAN in Bristol 1: Holidays
Producer DAVID SHUTE
4.20* Strange Music
Another series of unusual sounds. 1: Quaint and Comical ranging from a nose flute quartet to a Chinese prophetess
Introduced by MADEAU STEWART
4.30* The 18th Emergency
The novel by BETSY BYARS abridged in six episodes by DEREK PARKER
Reader Miriam Margolyes (2)
4.40* Forecast
The radio game devised by IAN MESSITER
Host Tony Blackburn
Special guest Jackie Pallo with some Scouts and Guides
Producer IAN FENNER
Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Nicholas Woolley
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
in informal conversation with Dennis Barker , Dr Edward de Bono , Benny Green and who knows who else
Musical diversions by JOHN GOULB Producer SALLY THOMPSON
James Herriot, writer and vet, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
A disrespectful comedy for radio by Alan Melville
Starring Jean Anderson
with Robert Lang, Edward Hardwicke and Sandra Clark
The play is set on the Scottish Island of Benmahulish and in and around the Palace of Westminster. The action, such as there is, takes place during and immediately after a General Election in this country a few years from now. But, of course, it could never happen.
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
(Robert Lang broadcasts by arrangement with the Cambridge Theatre Company)
9.58 Weather
J. B. Priestley presents a selection of his favourite 20th-century poets as part of the 1975 Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival arranged by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER (Birmingham)
Evening prayers conducted by tR PATRICK MCENROE , With the ST GABRIEL SINGERS
Director of music KENNEDY RYAN
preceded by Weather
