6.32 Farming Today
ROBfN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
9.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.18 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Malcolm Billings Introduces Radio 4's 60-minute world-wide look at the weekend: includ. ing 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
ANDREW SINCLAIR reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by SHEILA TRACY Narrator JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY Ü'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER , ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning, page 1: The Lord doth reign, and clothed is he (BBC HB 476); Psalm 99; Acts 21, vv 15-26 (RSV); 0 God of earth and altar (BBC HB394)
by MARGARET HOWARD
Puzzled over questions that don' 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:
Professor Eric Laithwaite , electrical engineer
Professor Derek Blundell. &nvironmental geologist
Dr Martin Bax , psychologist Producer MICHAEL BHIGHT
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Malcolm Muggeridge
Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone Lord George-Brown
Countess of Longford
as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Introduced by John Dunn Arthur Poskitt by BRIAN THOMPSON with John Franklyn-Robbins and Carole Hayman
6: The Giant Moth of Vienna Producer TONY CLIFF
4.5* Behind the Scenes
3: The Circus. PAT MITCHELL discovers just what goes on under the Big Top before they ' send out the clowns.'
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
4.25* Short Story Competition
KAYE WEBB , the Editor of Puffin Books, asks you to write a short story. Valuable prizes to be won! Entries to: 4th Dimension, BBC, London W1A 4WW
4.30* The 18th Emergency
The novel by BETSY BYARS abridged in six episodes by DEREK PARKER
Reader Miriam Margolyes (5) Producer GRAHAM GAULD
4.40* Forecast
The radio game devised by IAN MESSITER
Host Tony Blackburn Special Guest:
Nigel Lambert (Captain Radio) Producer IAN FENNER Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A Icind of oonversational entertainment on the week's crop of the suWime and/or the ridiculous tracked down by Dennis Barker , Dr Edward de Bono , Benny Green. Ann Leslie and who knows who else
Musical notes on the week by the JOKANN SCOUSE BAND Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Jean Simmons, actress, chooses the records she 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)
A Horror Legend of Man and Beast specially written for radio by Victor Pemberton.
[Starring] Vincent Price and Coral Browne.
Time: around the end of the last century.
Place: Cambridge and the Fen Country.
'It came at me from nowhere... eyes glarin' out of the dark like emeralds. Teeth like rocks, tarnished with the blood of human flesh. And hair streamin' out of its neck and hands and feet... This isn't one of God's creatures, sir. It's the work of the Devil himself!'
Technical assistants Jock Parrell, Marsail MacCuish, David Bitchinson and Alister Wilson.
Producer John Tydeman. (Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
James Cameron presents a personal choice of poetry and prose ranging from John Donne to E. B. White , and from Gerard Manley Hopkins to the anonymous plea of a ' bloody-minded yet God-fearing Highland fisherman annoyed at being forbidden to fish on the Sunday.' Readers JOHN SAMSON
CLIVE MERKISON
MARGARET ROBERTSON
Recorded before an invited audience in Broadcasting House, London.
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
Evening Prayers conducted by REV R. . BROOKS
preceded by Weather