6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day ROSEMARY WAKELIN
Introduced by John Tlmpson and Barry Norman 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
Read by EDWARD KELSEY (4)
(Sat's broadcast: revised)
NEM, p 17; To us in Bethlem city (BBC HB 315); Psalm 111; Acts 22, v 30 to 23, v 11 (RSV); 0 thou who earnest (BBC HB 362)
from Scotland
The Souter by R. J. ARTHUR Read by Douglas Kynoch
There's one thing about being inexperienced in handling women - finesse and subtleties don' come into it. If I hadn' pushed Nan into the burn that day, who knows how things might have worked out.
Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS
Dennis McCarthy reports
This week: a nine-year-old chess champion; how to lift fat men up to the ceiling without effort; and love potions at £2.00 a bottle.
Producer PETER DE ROSA
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
Smoking Cures: are they worth buying and what should you pay?
And in Shopping Basket MOLLY PRICE-OWEN looks at the cost of everyday items.
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cyril Fletcher In the chair McDonald Hobley Special guest Kenneth Connor From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR 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
Captor and Captive: BERT NEY.
LAND was a Japanese POW - iso SUGIYAMA his prison officer. Recently their two families met in Worthing. BARBARA MYERS was invited along too, Reading your letters.
Women 75: a round-the-world series in International Women's Year. Perfect Pitcher by ARTHUR PORGES abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS Read by Blain Fairman
(Music: MacDowell's Indian Suite No 2, Op 48)
Story: The Mole and the Pussy-cat by VERA RUSHBHOOKE
The Hands, adapted for radio by DONALD MCWHINNIE from the story Composition for Four Hands by HILDA LAWRENCE with Mary Wimbush and Sheila Grant
As a result of the shock she suffered at her son's sudden and mysterious death Nora Manson is completely paralysed. Now she lives in daily fear for her life - a fear she cannot communicate.
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous, the not-so famous and sometimes even the downright obscure. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Daddy-Long-Legs (4)
William Hardcastle
5.50 Financial Report.
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey
Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday 4.5 pm)
by John Hyatt
with Hugh Manning as Barfield and Sandra Clark as Zoe
Jean: "There is one thing. I must ask you to keep as quiet as possible. The gentleman in the room next to this one has been ill."
Tony Van den Bergh goes behind the scenes at Aston Villa - one of England's most famous clubs - and examines the relationships between the players, the players and manager, the manager and directors, and the club and its supporters. He also looks at the business side of the game and assesses the build-up for the newsoccerseasonthatstarts on Saturday.
Producer JÓCK. GALLAGHER
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer SARAH DUNANT
Douglas Stuart reporting
Cabbages and Kings (9)
Four programmes presented by George Luce 4: All at Sea
All powers great and small heading for the seabed EI Dorado - is the ocean the backdrop for a new international conflict?
preceded by Weather