6.32 Farming Today
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
7.10 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
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 COLIN DORAN Narrator SHEILA TRACY
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER , BERNARD TATE
NEM, p 75; God's law is perfect, and converts (BBC HB 456); Psalm 119, vv 1-8; Acts 17, v 24 to 18, v 4 (RSV); Soldiers of the Cross, arise! (BBC HB 367)
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 and discuss your questions on any topic from science, medicine and technology.
In the chair Professor John Taylor , Department of Mathematics, King's College, London This week's panel:
Prof John Napier , anatomist
Prof Eric Laithwaite , electrical engineer
Dr Chris Evans , psychologist Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
Write, with your questions and telephone number, to Dial-a-Scientist, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 4WW
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Hill, Tom Jackson Sir Montv Finniston Jacky Gillott
Ludovic Kennedy as Radio 3
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA as Radio 3
Introduced by John Dunn Arthur Poskitt by BRIAN THOMPSON with John Franklyn-Robbins and Carole Hayman 4: The High Wire
Producer TONY CLIFF
4.5* Time Well Spent
BRIAN TRUEMAN looks at things for you to do, to make and to collect.
This month: making pictures from seeds, string, nails and thread; magic with JOHN WADE ; and competition fishing with WALTER HUGHES.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
4.25* Edwards' Ark
PERCY EDWARDS imitates and talks about animals of your choice.
Producer NICK HANDEL
4.30* The 18th Emergency The novel by BETSY BYARS abridged in six episodes by DEREK PARKER
Reader Miriam Margolyet (3) Producer GRAHAM GAULD
4.40* Forecast
The radio game devised by IAN MESSITER
Host Tony Blackburn
Special guest Sheila Scott Producer IAN FENNER Editor GRAHAM GAULD
All the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.55
Weather and programme new$ VHF Regional news and weather
A personal collection from the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense revealed in Informal conversation with Dennis Barker
Dr Edward de Bono Benny Green and who knows who else
Musical diversions by JOHN GOULS Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Anthony Dowell, dancer, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley who devised the programme.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
by James Follett
An unusual chain of unforeseen coincidences - and a British nuclear submarine of the 1990s prepares to launch an all-out attack, devastating, unpreventable. unless...
Producer MARGARET ETALL
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas pre. sents a personal choice of prose and verse from the writings of Dylan Thomas Shakespeare, Robert Browning , Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh , and recalls one of his own 1 scoops as a BBC war correspondent.
Illustrations read by PRUNELLA SCALES and TIMOTHY WEST before an invited audience in Broadcasting House, London, Producer ROSEMARY HART
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
(Timothy West is in 1 Hedda Gabler at the Aldwych Theatre)
An evening Meditation by FRASER STEEL
preceded by Weather
