6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by Barry Norman
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 7.45-7.5* English Regions: see column 5
by EILEEN CAPEL
Read by LEONARD SACHS
3: In which the Professor i* Converted
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham (02D-[number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners. Producer JENNY DE YONG
The lines are open from 8.0 am
The programme that investigates your consumer problems Presented by Roger Cook Producer PAT TAYLOR
NEM. p 46; Let saints on earth in concert sing (BBC HB 249); Psalm 32; Acts 26, vv 9-20 (Rsv); Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 329)
from Northern Ireland Drinks on the House by PATRICK MCCOOEY
Read by Harold Goldblatt
After five years of trying, Jamesy McDowell came to the conclusion that he was just not cut out to be a publican. Producer PAUL MULDOON
Hermione Gingold
The last of three selections made by GABRIEL WOOLF of Victorian writers, famous and obscure.
3: Jerome K. Jerome on Theatrical Characters
Producer MICHELL RAPER
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Hearing their troubles helps me: so a member of a telephone counselling service for sufferers from multiple sclerosis tells NANCY WISE.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
Introduced from Bristol by Daphne Hubbard
Virginia Woolf : NIGEL NICOLSON knew her when he was a child and is now editing her letters.
2.0-2.2 News
Shoppers' Rights: we hear from a husband who's joined the fight for fair prices.
Natural Magic: DOREEN VALIENTE says magic is all around us - all we need is the ability to see and understand. Norfolk Child by JANE WHITE
Read by EILEEN ATKINS
(Final instalment)
Story: The Queen o/ The Circus by MARY CALVERT
Presenters MAUREEN MORRIS and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Written by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Mrs Penrose 's Housekeeper by PETER FIELDSON
' I loathe old people, they depress me, and if that isn't the basis for a good working relationship, I don't know what is! You get yourself some little college girl with aspirations to be a social worker, and she'll have you strapped down to your bed within the week.'
Mrs Penrose 's advertisement brings her more than she bargained for, but life with her new housekeeper has its compensations.
Producer MARGARET ETALL
Johnny Morris on his ' tour de France ' - from Normandy to the Mediterranean and back again to Paris.
The first of six programmes
The Nightcomers
5: The New Regime
The news magazine: presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 22: Semi-final t2)
JOHN TUNNEY. journalist
WILFRED RIGG , retired lecturer HUGH COWAN retired headmaster'
ALISTAIR FULTON, teacher
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN. Who. With ]AN GILLIES, sets the questions.
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
Brain of Britain, quiz book based on the series, 35p from bookshops
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey
by MARGARET HOWARD
Producer PETER DE ROSA
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A serial in six parts by Robert Barr
Starring Bernard Hepton
In which Galbraith meets the King of Diamonds, and possibly the Joker in Amsterdam.
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Nigel Rees
Producer SARAH DUNANT
John Tusa reporting
Friday Special: a deeper look at a topic of the moment
The Power-House by JOHN BUCHAN
Read by NOEL JOHNSON (5)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Jon Pertwee stars in a personal choice of comedy with the assistance of June Whitfield and MAX HARRIS , who, with his Septet, provides the incidental music
Producer JOHN DYAS
preceded by Weather
