6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day TONY RALLS
Introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam
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 8.3S* and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. English Regions: see column 5
Sex and the Young Person
Most of us now accept the term ' permissive society ' - but are not clear how we have arrived there. ts it a question of parents relaxing parental control or young people knocking down the barriers of moral behaviour? How much can parents influence their children's standards' And at what stage should tfoungsters make up their own minds about relationships?
Helen Palmer talks to parents and children.
Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories. Introduced by PAULINE BUSHNELL. Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 38; Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137); Psalm 20; Mark 7, v 31 to 8, v 10 (NEB); See the Conqueror mounts (BBC HB 125)
Rabbits by W. MONTAGU EVEHITT
Read by Carleton Hobbs
Caridew Snuggins was extremely annoyed at having been blatantly cheated; that old fool in the ticket office of this ridiculous column had distinctly told him there were 311 steps. There weren't. There were 309. It would have been more to the point had the idiot mentioned that the balcony was caged. For Caridew Snuggins had made that climb for the express purpose of throwing himself off ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Escape Me Not by DONALD MCCARTHY
NANCY: The trouble with you, Henry, is you haven't enough push.
HENRY: It's nothing to do with push, you have to have the right qualifications.
NANCY: Stuff and nonsense . . . it's what you're made of that counts in this world, Henry ... you haven't got what it takes.
Producer DAVID b. GODFREY
Presenter George Luce
I Know My Rights - or Do I?: find out in today's edition.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to: You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA
Programme 3
A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge. Panel: Nan Winton
Ted Moult , Neil Durden-Smith v a team representing the Army and Royal Navy stationed in Singapore
Bob Tanner. Barry Vargas Alan Groves , Bill Bisset
Questionmaster PETER JONES
Questions set, programme devised and produced by MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
(By arrangement with British Forces Broadcasting Service)
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Susan Hill, novelist
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters
Have Books, Will Travel: ANNA PERRY reports on the Provincial
Booksellers' Fairs.
Nature's Way - 2: Sleeping it Off! ' PHIL DRABBLE with some hibernation tales.
Cereal Story - 3: Barley and Rye.
Washington Square (7)
Stories: The Axle's Broken by HELEN CHRISTISON and A Piece of Chalk by MARJORIE DARKE
Bananas: a play for radio by ROY BAINBRIDGE
When I was a child, the Second World War meant we had no bananas. Hitler and the Axis denied us them. The absence of bananas wouldn't have signified anything if the sadistic powers hadn't planted the image of bananas in my brain.'
Producer BRIAN MILLER
A close-up of her solo performances by those who work with her: joe DAVIS , lighting director; WILLIAM BLEZARD , musical director;
ANTHONY CHARDET , stage director. With recorded statements and songs from ' the legend ' herself. Interviews and presentation Anne Suter
Producer MADEAU STEWART
Double Snare
8; The Threat Increases
William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
[Starring] James Bolam and Rodney Bewes as Terry Collier and Bob Ferris
with Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers
and Robert Gillespie
Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
Adapted for radio and produced by John Browell
(Repeated: Friday 12.27pm)
John Tidmarsh
André Previn, composer, conductor, pianist. and one of the most versatile musicians of his generation.
Ring Robin Day to put your questions in person to the man who won four Oscars for film scores he wrote and conducted in Hollywood, and today is Principal Conductor of one of Britain's finest orchestras, Producer WALTER WALLICH
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 1, based on the book by NEVILLE WILLIAMS with Judy Parfitt as the Queen Narrated by Gabriel Woolf
5: My Dear Frog written by JOHN O'HARE with Paul Lavers as the Duke of Alencon
She who had sworn that, being wedded to England, she would marry no man, was involved in marriage plans with a French youth described by a contemporary as ' a vicious little chap, who says he is a Catholic - but keeps himself surrounded by atheists.' with the voices of CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD. HOWARD GOORNEY HAL JEATES , VAL LORRAINE
MOLLIE PETRIE. STEPHEN THORNE and FREDERICK TREVES Producer BRIAN MILLER
Presenter Nigel Rees Producer CHRIS SWANN
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Thunder on Sunday (8)
followed by an interlude
preceded by Weather