6.22 Farming Today from the Dairy Farming Event at Stoneleigh
6.40 Prayer for the Day MARY MCKAY
Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Torlav with Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 English Regions: see column 5
Read by PETER MARINKER (13)
I Want to Borrow Teddy: ANN HEYNO looks at the growth of toy libraries.
Bias in Books?: arguments for and against the use of sex, class and racial values in children's books. And other items.
Presenter Andy Price
Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories. Introduced by PAULINE BUSHNELL. Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 17; Blessed Jesus, at thy word (BBC HB 257); Canticle 3; Mark 6, vv 14-29 (NEB); Of the Father's love (BBC HB 57)
Truant Trembath by ANNE LYONS Read by Michael McClain
Mr Trembath let his gaze rest guiltily on the graffiti scrawled on the walls of the Underground station. Lurking in his well-regulated mind was the recurring desire to scribble something on a poster himself.
London v North (Round 4) London:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John B. Mays who deserve a breather having got to Prestatyn, Dover and Kirk Yetholm. North:
Jack Longland (Chairman) with Dr Patrick Nuttgens Professor Harry Armytage who create a total deception out of a handicapped buccaneer, the Equator, and a very heavy American doughnut. Producer TREVOR HILL
Progress Chasers by DAVID WALKER
' They've got a load of jerks in shirt sleeves and ties telling them how much they can do, how much they can move. Like Tom said, what does it mean? Progress Chaser - nobody ever achieves progress; they only stumble through.'
Producer HARRY CATLIN
Presenter Jeanine McMullen
I Know My Rights - or Do I?: find out in today's edition,
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Betty Marsden
(who is in ' What the Butler Saw ' at the Whitehall Theatre)
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Migraine - a new type of clinic: DILYS MORGAN reports on its methods and its findings. JOHN GLEN reads Washington Square by HENRY JAMES (2)
Story: Auntie Bel's Kitchen Drawer by JILL ROWE
Gooseberry by JOHN KIRKMORRIS
The world of 1945 wasn't the world of 39: it was bleached white. There was a shortage of every commodity except hope ... Everywhere you could see the need for stability - it was a physical ache in people ... I was in London where I'd studied for a couple of years before the war....
Producer TONY CLIFF (Manchester)
A birthday tribute to Dame Agatha Christie the most famous living practitioner of the "whodunnit", who is 85 this week.
The contributors include Peter Saunders, Nigel Stock, Julian Symons and the recorded voice of Dame Agatha herself.
Narrator Cliff Michelmore
Double Snare by ROSEMARY HARRIS
Read by MIRIAM MARGOLYES 3: The Wrong Identity
William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Cancer: a Whole Family of Diseases
What progress are researchers making towards their cure and prevention? What can we ourselves do to help with early detection?
Ring John Tusa to put your questions in person to Professor Sir David Smithers , former Chairman of the Cancer Advisory Committee of the Department of Health.
Producer WALTER WALLlCH
Call [number removed]from 6.0 pm
A ten-part series on some of the men in the private and public life of Queen Elizabeth I, based on the book by NEVILLE WILLIAMS with Judy Parfitt as the Queen Narrated by Gabriel Woolf
4: The Dancing Chancellor written by THEA HOLME. With
Laurence Payne as Christopher Hatton. Although a charming courtier and an accomplished dancer, he hardly seemed a suitable choice for the Queen's Lord Chancellor. with the voices of YVONNE ANTRO-
BUS. CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD.
RICHARD GRIFFITHS , REX HOLDSWORTH
MONICA LAVERS, ESMUND RIDEOUT and MANNING WILSON
Producer BRIAN MILLER
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer Tom VERNON
Douglas Stuart reporting
Thunder on Sunday (3)
The third of four programmes by Steve Bradshaw
preceded by Weather
