Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES
A regional view of farming in the week ahead. BBC Wales
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV VERNON SPROXTON
with John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead reporting from the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool At 7.0 and 8.1 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers: at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p from bookshops English Regions: see column 5
by PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Read by Mary Wimbush
Thoughtless people in front of the cage had tormented the old elephant to the point of fury, and the new young keeper did not understand ...
The programme that takes its own particular look at some of the issues and personalities of the forthcoming week.
The studio guests join Esther Rantzen. Kenneth Robinson. Fritz Spiegl and who knows who else for 55 minutes of interviews, discussion and mild irreverence.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Stop the Week returns next Saturday evening)
Review by Esther Rantzen : page 74
' Last spring we were surprised to see a beautiful, bright red bird in our garden, which we finally identified as a cardinal, a native of North America. However, a few days ago we were even more surprised to see a second cardinal in the garden: are these brilliant birds now breeding in this country? '
An equally brilliant reply, you may be sure, from the Wildlife team.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
nem, p 114; The Lord of heaven confess (BBC RB 478); Psalm 29; Matthew 13, vv 10-23 (rsv); Behold the temple of the Lord! (BBC HB 171)
New Every Morning, 11.25 (hardback), 50p (paperback), from bookshops
All Right on the Night Written and read by Anthony Buckeridge
'Pauline recognised the cue without knowing it was from the wrong act. She came back with her line from Act 3, and before we knew what had hit us we found ourselves leading up to the final curtain before the first act was properly under way.
'Have you ever tried working the action back to where it should be without letting the audience know you're making up the words as you go along?..."
Producer JOANNA SCOTT-MONCRIEFF
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Sue Cook The World of Work
With jobs hard to find, MARGARET KORviNG studies the market and looks at new opportunities in training and employment. Your Money,
What should you be doing with it now?
With. of course, your views in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is editor of History Today Peter Quennell. Show more
Peter Quennell , writer and Editor of History Today
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Wintertime, Holidaytime (3): If you see yourself as a winter sport - MAEVE BINCHY has some suggestions.
By Special Request (1): a listener's choice from 30 years of Woman's Hour.
Shipwreck, Bravery and Loyalty ... : tales recounted by a man who's spent his life with the Cromer lifeboat. JACK CARR reads
The Right True End by STAN BARSTOW (11) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Auntie Bel's Ice-Cream Shop by JILL ROSE
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED . and TONY AITKEN
Script by RACHAEL BIRLEY
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY Listen with Mother Stories,
12.00, from bookshops
The Shoplifter by A. R. RAWLINSON
An elderly lady is brought before a store's security officer accused of shoplifting. But her answers to the charge are, to say the least, surprising ...
Felix Holt by GEORGE ELIOT
Abridged in ten episodes and read by GABRIEL WOOLF (6) Producer MARGARET ETALL
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Another chance to hear Sid's Tours of Cheam starring Tony Hancock with SID JAMES , BILL KERR WARREN MITCHELL ,
ERROL MCKINNON , and MAVIS VILLIERS Script by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON
Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT
Producer TOM RONALD
Twenty-Five Years of The Archers, 60p, from bookshops
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed. In the studio David Sells Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNI
Frank Muir gives an irreverent commentary on our social history. 7: Opera
Readers Alec McCowen and Norman Shelley
Opera is when a guy gets stabbedinthebackandinstead of bleeding he sings.'
Adapted by SIMON BRETT in seven parts from The Frank Muir Book , published today. Producer HALLAM TENNYSON
(Alec McCowen is in ' The Family Dance ' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
Last Summer by LESTEK POWELL with ' For months, we've been looking forward to this holiday - I know I have: yet here we are, on our first morning, arguing the toss and bombarding one another with cliches.'
Produced and directed by BARRY CATLIN
(Penelope Keith is in ' Donkeys' Years' at the Globe Theatre. London)
(Repeated: next Sun 2.30 pm)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world, and John Tusa at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
High Stakes by DICK FRANCIS abridged in ten parts by BRIAN GEAR
Read by Jack Watson (1)
I I looked at my friend and saw a man who had robbed me. Jody Leeds looked back at me. half smiling, still disbelieving.
" You're what?
"Taking my horses away," I said.
" But ... I'm your trainer." Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
Radio 4's International Business Report: Market Trends
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
followed by an interlude
preceded by Weather
