6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 VIIF Regional news and weather; at
6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news
At 7.0 and 8.6 News and mere of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45 7.50 Editor ALISTAIR OSBORNE
English Regions: see column 5
by HERBERT JENKINS
Reed by EDWARD KELSEY (5)
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham [number removed] and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners
The lines are open from 8.0 am
Checkpoint for Consumers
An investigative programme presented by Roger Cook Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
NEM, p 21; When morning gilds the skies (BBC HB 285); Canticle 9; Acts 23, vv 12-24 (Rsv); Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim iBBC HB 287)
The Vandal by DAVID WATKIN
Read by Frank Poynter
' You know I lost all my sweet peas and most of my dahlias? That morning I came and saw 'em all just lying there, I could have wept. If I'd've caught anybody then, I would have killed them! '
' Steady on,' said the policeman, ' we want none of that kind of talk new, do we? Producer HERBERT SMITH (Manchester)
James Cameron aturday's broadcast)
The second of three selections made by Gabriel Woolf of Victorian writers, famous and obscure.
Presenter Lyn Macdoitald m, 1,000, 1,001 ...: BILL BRECKON looks at alternatives to counting sheep for overcoming insomnia.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
3: Cold Feet
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas WOOlley Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Artist on the Move: FRED HAWORTH , official painter to the Shire Horse Society of Great Britain, takes his studio with him from show to show.
2.0-2.2 News
America Changed Them: EVELYN rose and DOROTRY ROTHMER went as evacuees 35 years ago this month.
Behind the Scenes: Ros CLARE runs a Punch and Judy show. Of the Five Who Come by FLETCHER FLORA abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS Read by Blain Fairman
(Music: MacDowell's Indian Suite No 2, Op 48)
Story: The Golden Day by KATHLEEN RAMSAY
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKBN
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer .JENYTH WORSLEY
More stories by Kathleen Ram say in Margaret Ellen , 20p from bookshops
by Edward Mackin
John Joseph O'Halloran, long dead, has his memorial stone smashed to smithereens, a respected District Councillor is killed by a hit-and-run driver, and Old Mojo, a meths drinker, is found hanging in a deserted warehouse. The only evidence to link the crimes is provided by a cheap fairground doll ...
(Leeds)
(Stereo)
Daddy-Long-Legs by JEAN WEBSTER
Read by MARION DIAMOND (S)
Nicholas Weolley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey
Editor DEREK LEWIS
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of items.
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
and the King of Diamonds A serial in six parts by ROBERT BARR starring
1: Enter a Frightened Lady in which we begin with Galbraith's retirement.
Producer JOHN BROWELL
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer DAVID PERRY
Doughs Stuart reporting
Friday Special: a deeper loo* at a topic of the moment Editor DEREK LEWIS
Cabbages and Kings by o. HENRY , abridged for radio and read by RAMSAY Williams (Final instalment)
Producer STUART GRIFFITHS
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL NCGUFFIE at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and Illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK ,
SNfTH DAVID RENWICK , ALASTAIR BEATOH and others
Producer SIMON BRETT
preceded by Weather
