6.55 Weather, programme news
A weekly review of the agricultural scene
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC 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; 7.55 Weather and programme news
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40-
Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad.
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 Talking Politics
Anthony King asks. should our Electorial System be reformed? ! And if so, ' what difference would it make to the shape of British Politics? '
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
ANNA RAEBURN reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PAULINE BUSHNELL Narrator SUSAN DENNY
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
ANNE SLOMAN and BERNARD TATt
New Every Morning, page 50; Give heed, my heart, lift up thine eyes (BBC Hymn Book 48); Psalm 89; Luke 1, vv 26-38 (RSV); Child in the manger (BBC HB 45)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her own selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and Television during the past seven days.
Producer PETER DE ROSA
Puzzled over questions that don't seem to have answers? Wonder what scientific research is up to? This is your opportunity to talk directly on the telephone to a panel of scientists and discuss your questions on any topic from science, medicine and technology. Chaired by Dr Geoff Watts Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Peter Kirk , mp
Katharine Whitehorn
Roderick MacFarquhar , Mr Michael Barratt
Chairman David Jacobs from Hampshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
with Jill Burridge and Norman Tozer looks at the life of gossip columnists; observes a treacherous anniversary; and acknowledges independent African women. The money spot looks at the letter ' N '; and ANDREW MANDERSTAM scans the European papers.
And The Mouse by MARY LAVIN , abridged by MADGE HART , is read by KATE BINCHY . Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
A Severe Chill by JACK GERSON
' Kauffman came across some computer tapes ... he was doing some auditing of this particular firm's accounts. He ran the tapes through by accident. He got detailed political and private information on every important person in this city. Now Kauffman is dead and I'm scared.'
Producer GORDON EMSLIE BBC Scotland
(Repeated: Wed 11.30 am)
Gordon Clough
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Unpredictable table-talk bounced off the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense.
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
Julia Foster, actress, who recently played Moll Flanders on BBC2, chooses the records she would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley.
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
A play for radio by Michael Robson
With Robert Lang, Dulcie Gray, Jeffrey Segal and Steve Hodson
Mysteriously obstructed while researching his new book, author Robert Cardiff finds his problems mount dramatically with the murder of a society girlfriend in a country cottage. It takes time for him to connect the two mysteries and uncover a killer of overweening vanity and a lifetime of criminal deception.
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
(Robert Lang broadcasts by permission of the Cambridge Theatre Company)
9.58 Weather
Lord Crowther-Hunt Claire Palley and Bob Kernohan in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester
Evening prayers conducted by PR PATRICK MCENROE wi th the ST GABRIEL SINGERS directed by KENNEDY RYAN
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