C.22 Farming Week: presented from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
Introduced by Desmond Lynam and Malcolm Billings
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
(Details as Tuesday 11.45 am)
aided by David Jessel, Sheridan Morley, Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson, Fritz Spiegl
We often hear of ' bachelors among wild animals - but do the females of any species choose to remain unattached? The team offers advice to nature's lovelorn and answers more wildlife questions.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
nem, p 54; To thee, 0 Comforter divine (BBC HB 164); Psalm 143; Acts 16. v 32 to 17. T 3 (Rsv); City of God. how broad and far (BBC HB 173)
Two Middle-aged Ladies in a Ditch by IRIS MACFARLANE Read by Gudrun Ure
They sat in the peaty water together..... Come on, love,' she urged, ' make an effort. We can't spend the whole day lolling about in this drain, can we? Try once more. Come on. Heave . . .
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Have Expenses - Can Govern: DICK TRACEY investigates the amount of cash which councillors claim in the course of their duties and asks do we get value for our money? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer James Herriot. Show more
James Herriot, writer and vet
12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Gordon Clough
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
A Fiver or a Fortune? PAT BENNETT takes a look at works' suggestion schemes.
Food Allergy: PEARL THRUSSELL can't eat poultry, fish, eggs or a host of other foods. A doctor explains.
' Another Lady a long-time admirer of Jane Austen has completed her last unfinished manuscript Sanditon. She talks about the problems involved.
Sanditon by JANE AUSTEN and ANOTHER LADY abridged in 16 parts by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by Jo Maxwell-Muller (1) Sanditon was a second wife to Mr Parker , hardly less dear and certainly more engrossing. He could talk of it for ever.
(Music: Ireland's A Downland Suite)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Puddle by CHRISTINE JONES
Balance of Power
Among the Elephants by IAIN AND ORIA DOUGLAS-HAMILTON, abridged for radio in ten parts by RON BARRON
The way the matriarch elephants bring up their young. their social behaviour, their aggressiveness and tenderness, and the help they give each other are vividly described by lain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton. This best-selling book is a personal record of two young people who lived among the elephants in the Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania. lain: Sean Arnold (1)
Producer DAVID SPENSER
Gordon Clough
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler Chain Reaction with NORMA RONALD
RONALD BAODILEY , JOHN GRAHAM and CORINNA MARLOWE
Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
by Dorothy L. Sayers, adapted in six parts by Chris Miller
Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter with Allan Cuthbertson as Robert Fentiman, Gabriel Woolf as Insp Parker
(Five Red Herrings begins on BBC1 on Wednesday 8.10 pm: see page 7)
translated and adapted by Barbara Bray from the novel "Le Grand Meaulnes" by Alain-Fournier
[starring] Timothy Bateson, Albert Finney, Clare Austin and Lyndon Brook
(Broadcast in 1959)
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)
Presenter Paul Yaughan Producer DAVID PERRY Editor ROSEMARY HART
1.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Father and Son by EDMUND GOSSE abridged in ten parts by VIRGINIA BROWNE
Read by John Moffatt 1: Two ' Saints '
In this strange household the event of a child was not welcomed, but was borne with resignation. The event was thus recorded in my father's diary: E. delivered of a son. Received green swallow from Jamaica ... ' the beginning of an extraordinary relationship. Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
