6.32 Farming Today
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Producer ANTHONY PARKIN (Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 70-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including 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 S.40*
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in. 9.30 Talking Politics
Not all the key decisions which affect our daily lives are taken by politicians. Much of the power in this country is in the hands of non-politicians. This summer ANTHONY KING talks to five such men about their jobs, their relationship with the government and the public, and the power they wield.
4: Sir Michael Palliser , who is to be the new Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service.
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
HONOR BALFOUR reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PAULINE BUSHNELL Narrator COLIN DORAN Producers TOM READ
ANNE SLOMAN , DAVID WALTER
New Every Morning, page 1: Angel-voices, ever singing (BBC HB 256); Psalm 63; Mark 5, vv 21-34 (NEB); God of grace and God of glory (BBC HB 391)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her own selection of items from the many broadcast; on BBC Radio and Television during the past seven days. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Presented by Brian J. Ford
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producer THELMA RUMSEY
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Enniskillen, County Fermanagh Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Monday 11.5 am)
Patrick Moore as Radio 3
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA as Radio 3
John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners. Arthur Poskitt by BRIAN THOMPSON with John Franklyn-Robbins and Carole Hayman
11: The Dance of Death Producer TONY CLIFF
4.5* Talk Up
DAVINA WEIR and her countrywide team Of CATHERINE MORGAN. SIMON MORRIS and TIM MORAN discuss their view of the men at Westminster and the way they put politics across to the younger generation. Producer DAVID SHUTE
4.20* Strange Music
3: Imitations - ranging from humans sounding like bagpipes to instruments being birds.
Introduced by MADEAU STEWART
4.30* Jennings at School
Six plays by ANTHONY BUCKERIDGE 4: Jennings and the Air of Panache
Producer HERBERT SMITH Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Mr Punch , his resident humorists and the magazine's favourite contributors being let loose on the week's entertainment. Musical comments by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Esther Rantzen, broadcaster, 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)
Search for Satan by VAL GIELGUD adapted from his novel Fall of a Sparrow by DAVID H. GODFREY with and LENARTOWYCZ: You must forgive us, Havilland, but we-my friends and I - need help ... we want you to find for us the man whose name is written on the paper inside that envelope. We think he is in Poland.
HAVILLAND: ... But this is fantastic. To begin with the man is dead.
SYDNEY: We have reason to think not.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
There's woe in the world. Wantonness rampant;
An axe-age, a sword-age. Shields are sundered;
A storm-age, a wolf-age,
Before the world crumbles.
Magnus Magnusson presents his choice of poetry and prose from the literature of Iceland, some of which, he points out, makes the Apocalypse sound like a joyride, reminding him of Cecil B. DeMille 's recipe for a good film: start with an earthquake and build up to a climax.
Reader TOM FLEMING
Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
An evening meditation led by REV FRANK TOPPING
preceded by Weather
