6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Prayers of Hope: talks by Richard Harries , 70p, /rom bookshops

Introduced by John Timpson and Malcolm Billings
Including at 6.58 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 7.45-7.50 Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
English Regions: see column 5

by RAYMOND CHANDLER
Read by PETER MARINKER (10)

Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham (021)-[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

Checkpoint for Consumers investigates the fair deal. What rights do you have? Who can yon trust? Find out with Roger Cook
Producer WALTER WALLICH

NEM, p 122; There is a land of pure delight <BBC HB 254); Canticle 10: Mark 5, vv 1-17 (NEB); Ten thousand times ten thousand (BBC HB 253)

from Northern Ireland The Hard Stuff by JIM MCCALLEN
Read by Bill Hunter
It's trouble. Molly .. It's big trouble. The police were searching up near the quarry the day again. They must know the still is in there. Producer PAUL MULDOON

Sir Geoffrey Jackson

Gabriel Woolf introduces and reads letters by and to the famous and the not-so-famous. 3: Letters written in England by Two Composers from Abroad - Chopin and Mendelssohn
Producer MICHELL RAPER

Presenter Lyn Macdonald
New Joints for Old: NANCY WISE meets some patients whose rheumatic joints have been replaced, and the doctors who specialise in this treatment.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 1AA

[Starring] James Bolam and Rodney Bewes as Terry Collier and Bob Ferris
with Sheila Fearn as Audrey
and George Layton, Jo Beadle, Brian Godfrey, Donald Gee

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 Bristol by Daphne Hubbard
Routine in a Monastery: ANDY RADFORD spends the day with the Abbot of Downside.
2.0-2.2 News
Trained Foster-parents: BARBARA BUCHANAN reports on a pilot scheme.
Conversational English: CAROLE STONE hears about the work of the English Teaching Theatre of Paris
BARBARA MITCHELL reads Sarah Whitman by DIANE PEARSON (14)

Story: "The Car that was Frightened of Roundabouts" by Anne Wellington

The Family Firm by PIERS PAU. READ with Dinsdale Landen and Caroline Mortimer
It's almost impossible for single women to get jobs that pay as well as mine; and anyway, I don' want to work night shifts. Why don' you change your wife? \
Producer SUSANNA CAPON

Johnny Morris on his ' tour de France ' - from Normandy to the Mediterranean and back again to Paris.
Fourth of six programmes

England, their England by A. G. MACDONELL Read by JOHN RYE (Final instalment)
(Starting next Monday: Double Snare by Rosemary Harris , read by Miriam Margolyes )

Nicholas Woolley
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 own selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and Television during the past seven days. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)

and the King of Diamonds A serial in six parts by ROBERT BARR , starring
5: Appointment in Zurich in which the ' King of Diamonds ' stays in Amsterdam, whilst Galbraith chases the ' Queen of Hearts.'
Producer JOBN BROWELL

President Ford is saved from assassination attempt in Sacramento, and the perils of taped broadcasting, when it comes to commenting on up-to-the-minute news.

by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday 9.15 am)

Presenter Nigel Rees
Producer SARAH DUNANT
9.59 Weather

John Tusa reporting
Friday Special: a deeper look at a topic of the moment Editor DEREK LEWIS

The Lion's Paw by D. R. SHERMAN abridged by MANNING WILSON Read by JACK WATSON
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Brufol) I Final instalment)
(Starting next Monday: Thunder on Sunday by Karen Campbell, read by John Graham )

Some musical facts you didn' know you were missing read by Victor Borge from his book My Favourite Intervals
Illustrated with the music of Handel
Producer
JOHN BROWELL

preceded by Weather