6.22 Farming Today This week:
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV ALEC GILMORE
Introduced by John Timpson 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; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. English Regions: see column 5
Holiday Hazards
We're having a fortnight at home this year - how can we turn it into a holidayt What's the best way to prevent gippy tuminy? We're taking our two small children on a. farm holiday in Cornwall - how can we avoid accidentst If we don't get the accommodation we've booked, what action should we taker How can you keep children happy on a long car journeyt I always get sunburnt.... Our small dauqhter becomes faddy and difficult in hotel restaurants .
Put your questions on Holiday Hazards to Arthur Sandles of the Financial Times, and a family doctor
Sue MacGregor ts in the chair Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live In - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 84; Not for our sins alone (BBC HB 345); Psalm 142; Acts 18, vv 18-28 (RSV); Awake. our souls, away, our fears! (BBC HB 300)
The Hero by HADRIAN ROGERS
Read by Lockwood West
His neighbours thought him a long-winded bore, and indeed nothing much had ever happened to Mr Pike. So how would he recount the extraordinary adventure which began one day when he went out to post a letter?
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Lockwood West is in ' Billy ' at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London)
The Glorious Sound of King's
finds in the Sound Archives a reflection of his own experiences writing and travelling all over the world.
Presenter Nancy Wise
Can You Spell It?: a look at modern methods and arguments about the teaching of spelling. Should parents worry if their children can't spell? How important is spelling today? PETER WINDOWS finds out.
The antidote to panel games from Tim Brooke-Taylor
Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden and William Rushton
Under the supervision of Humphrey Lyttelton in the Chair with COLIN SELL at the piano Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Introduced by Sue MacGregor How Do You Do?: a quiz to cut the cost of living. IRENE THOMAS puts more questions to CARYS BELL, CHRISTINA BRIDGER and DEIRDRE EDINGTON.
2.0-2.2 News
A Burning Question: fire and scalding accidents kill or maim thousands every year. How easily could they be prevented? Some views from a conference at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
Reading your letters.
The Person My Childhood Made Me: ROBIN HANBURY TENI-SON, explorer, author and Chairman of ' Survival International,' talks to ELIZABETH WEBB. jo MAXWELL-MULLER reads
Sanditon by JANE AUSTEN and ANOTHER LADY (7)
Stories: "Prunella's Cup of Coffee" by David Crowther and "Supper Time" by Herbert McKay
by DAPHNE DU MAURIER dramatised for radio in four parts by BRIAN GEAR Part 4
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)
(Starting Rape of the Fair Country, by Alexander Cordell )
visits Devon
Members of the Crediton Gardens Association put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
Book, Gardeners' Question Time 3, 40p, from bookshops
Among the Elephants by IAIN AND ORIA DOUGLAS-HAMILTON
Oria: JANE KNOWLES (7)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A domestic comedy about retirement written by ANNE JONES starring
Deryck Guyler and Mollie Sugden as Mr and Mrs Wheeler with Norman Rossington as Jack Bailey Kath's Baby
With JOHN BADDELEY as Nev PATRICIA GREENE as Kath YSANNE CHURCHMAN as James and LINDA POLAN as the posh lady
Home to Roost theme by ALEX WELSH , played by ALEX WELSH AND HIS BAND
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Birmingham)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
John Tid marsh presenting world news and views
direct from the Royal Albert Hall. London
MICHAEL ROLL (piano) BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conductor Paavo Berglund Part 1
Sibelius Scenes historiques: Suite No 1
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 Shostakovich
Symphony No 5, in d minor as Radio
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Nigel Rees Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Father and Son by EDMUND GOSSE
Read by JOHN MOFFATT
7: Wet and Glorious Footsteps
Radio 4's International Business Report: Market Trends
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
preceded by Weather
