6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV ALEC GILMORE
Introduced by John Tlmpson and Malcolm Billings
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 English Regions: see column 5
(Sat's broadcast: revised)
NEM, p 93: May the grace of Christ our Saviour (BBC HB 524); Psalm 90. vv 1-12; Acts 19, vv 11-20 (RSV); To the name of our salvation (BBC HB 284)
from Wales
Uncle Penry and the Foundling by c. I... FAIRLESS
Read by J. O. Roberts
They saw it at the same time - a smajl bundle of clothing lying in the dead centre of the road. 'By damn!' shouted Penry, ' somebody's dropped their washing over the side.' But it wasn't a bundle of washing. Producer HARRI GWYNN
Dennis McCarthy reports
This week: a top-class lemon eater, the champion eel-eater of London and the pet-food taster.
Producer PETER DE ROSA
Presenter Nancy Wise
Soft Sell: hard water can cost you money, but are water softening aids a good buy? BILL DAVIES. And Shopping Basket.
Written and adapted by Eddie Braben , with ANN HAMILTON , ARTHUR TOLCHER Singing Guest: Laura Lee
DENNIS WILSON AND HIS ORCHESTRA Producer JOHN BROWELL
(First broadcast on Radio 2)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
William Hardcastle
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Women and the Law: TESS GILL on the latest developments.
Nostalgia for the 20s: DILYS MORGAN queries the appeal of the style and sounds of the recent past. Sanditon (9)
Story: The Boy with Wooden Shoes (Part 2) by HAZEL FLETCHER
The Interchangeable Man by JACK GERSON with Paul Kermack
' A large shipment of arms Is believed to have been smuggled into Scotland. It could be for some criminal undertaking, but there's a definite question of security involved ... -
Producer GORDON EMSLIE (Glasgow)
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous, the not-so-famous and sometimes even the downright obscure. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Among the Elephants (9)
William Hardcastle
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey
by RUDYARD KIPLING dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON 2: Love o' Women with David Spenser
Hugh Dickson and Kevin Flood 'The first horror and confusion of the murder were over before I arrived. There only remained on the barrack square the blood of a man, dried by the heat.'
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
What is it that makes today's teenagers join the Services? Are they just susceptible to colourful recruitment advertising or do they have a sense of duty? Is it the anonymity of a uniform or simply a desire to see the world?
Trevor Johnson examines how the reality of Service life in the 70s matches up to the expectation, and sets it in the context of today's society. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
Presenter Nigel Rees
Producer SARAH DUNANT
Douglas Stuart reporting
Father and Son
9: A Blaze of Sunshine
preceded by Weather
