Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
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
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 60-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*
(medium wave only)
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 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with David Wood
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
Brian Connell reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by Peter Donaldson
Narrator Susan Denny
New Every Morning, page 118; Come. my soul, thou must be waking (BBC Hymn Book 404); Psalm 91, vv 1-13; Luke 12, vv 32-46 (Rsv); Forth in thy name, 0 Lord, I go (BBC HB 406)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days.
Producer PETER de rosa
Presented by Dr tieoff Watts
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics. in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings,, as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Clive Jenkins, Norman St John-Stevas, MP, Arianna Stassinopoulos Nicholas Harman
Chairman David Jacobs from Avon
(BBC Bristol)
(Friday's broadcast)
(Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm)
to: Any Answers? [address removed])
with Andy Price and Judith Chalmers learns to love languages; is taught how to become a successful publican; peruses the European papers; and takes account of more money matters.
And BRENDA BRUCE reads another instalment from Mother Knew Best by DOROTHY SCANNELL , abridged by FIONA MACPHERSON. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Crossed Line by EDWARD CROWLEY
Just a few words overheard on the telephone worry David Leadbetter. He discusses them with a colleague and they decide he was right to be concerned ...
Producer TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
as Radio 3
All the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
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, with observers of, and contributors to, the current social, artistic and political scene.
Musical intervals by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer HUGH PURCELL
Vincent Brome, writer, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The World Turned Upside Down The story of St Francis of Assisi by PETER LING with Sean Barrett as Francesco Bernadone
' In my dream, I thought I saw our Lateran Church, here in Rome, shaken by a violent earthquake. The whole building was rocked from its foundations.... tilting dangerously - about to fall. And then I saw a ragged little man ... And he set his shoulder to the wall - and he lifted the whole church back to its original position ... '
Producer DAVID SPENSER
(Repeated: Mondaw 3.5 pm)
Lady Antonia Fraser
Professor Eric Hobsbawm and Professor W. H. G. Armytage in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
Evening prayers conducted by REV COLIN SEMPER
preceded by Weather
