6.22 Farming Week: presented from the East by DAVID RICHARDSON
6.40 Prayer for the Day Rev JOHN JACKSON
Introduced by John Tlmpson 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; Todays 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)
as he. David Jessel, Sheridan Morley, Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson, Fritz Spiegl and their guests entertain you.
A cuckoo never sees its real parents - so how does it know it's the same sort of bird as another cuckoof
Just one of the knotty problems tackled by the experts. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
Private Lives (6.25 pm Thursday BBC1) looks at The Private Life of the Cuckoo
NEM, p 79; Let us, with a glad-some mind (BBC m 411); Psalm 104, vv 25-36; Acts 18, vv 5-17 (RSV); 0 God of Bethel, by whose hand (BBC HB 495)
Live and Learn by Joan O'Connor
Professor Banting offered a brief account of his two-month-long bicycle tour, and was treated in return by the stranger who introduced himself as Giorgio Baldini, to a complicated tale the like of which the mild and honest classicist had never before heard . . .
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.56 Announcements
Presenter Nancy Wise
It Happens in Minutes . . .: but the insurers can take months to pay. Can you get compensation from dilatory insurers? MOLLY PRICE-OWEN investigates.
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is dancer Anthony Dowell. Show more
Anthony Dowell, dancer, 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
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
The Independent African Woman: PROFESSOR LALAGE DOWN, who has worked in Africa for over a quarter of a century, talks about a long tradition of Women's Lib in some surprising areas.
What is a Mum?: some reflections from BUNTY JAMES.
Leisure and Pleasure: things to do and places to go in the long summer holidays. jo MAXWELL-MULLER reads
Sanditon by JANE AUSTEN and ANOTHER LADY (6)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Black Dog Follows his Nose by ELIZABETH ROBINSON
Another story by Elizabeth Robinson in Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00 from bookshops
Black Chiffon by LESLEY STORM adapted for radio by MOLLIE HARDWICK with Flora Robson
Stephen Murray and John Glen
A well-to-do woman steals a luxury article - legal and medical aid are immediately organised on her behalf. You must see that it will produce initial scepticism in court. It can only be broken down U her case is a genuine one.'
Producer JOE BURROUGHS
Among the Elephants Oria: JANE KNOWLES (6)
Gordon Clough
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in All Change with NORMA RONALD. RONALD DADDILEY and JOHN GRAHAM
Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by DOROTHY L. SAYERS. adapted in six parts by CHRIS MILLER starring with 6: Ann Dorland
Producer SIMON BRETT
by Don Haworth
'We ought to form a stack.'
'What's that in the name of God?
'American thing Alvin knows about.'
'One guy pays for a room and the rest move in for free.'
'And why do you call it a stack? '
'Double bed. Three guys lie side by side lengthways, then four widthways across them, then three more lengthways. surmounted by another four across....'
But more serious entanglements are to follow.
(Rptd: next Sunday 2.30 pm)
(Six radio plays by Don Haworth: We all come to it in the end, £2.75 from bookshops)
Presenter Peter France Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
Father and Son by EDMUND GOSSE
Read by JOHN MOFFATT 6: Breaking Bread
preceded by Weather
