6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Thought for the Day
6.50 Weather; programme news
6.55 South-East News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Weather; programme news
7.55 South East News
8.0 The News and more of Today
8.40 Today's Papers
Talking Point introduced by DEREK JONES
described by Barbara Cartland in conversation with MADEAU STEWART
Who is this fascinating woman? What is it that sustains her in all her campaigns and innumerable other activities? Is she a happy person?
Produced by MADEAU STEWART
NEM p 80; Alleluia! sing to Jesus (BBC HB 197); Psalm 11; Romans 2, v 25, to 3, v 9 (NEB); Jesu, priceless treasure (BBC HB 518)
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by KENNETH ALWYN with jack BRYMER (clarinet)
Introduced by PETER BARKER
by ANDREW WILKINSON is the third of five morning plays from round and about Britain
'Why should anyone hate a wall? Because it is what it is - a bore on a boring journey. Because it is where it is. Hear the beginning of your journey. It says - you've far to go and it's all like me.'
John Baddeley as Robin Other parts LINDA POLAN CATHERINE CRUTCHLEY
GEORGE WOOI. LEY, DOUGLAS DITTA and PETER BARTLETT
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
12.55 Weather; programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Mark and his Teddy Bears walk by the River by AUDREY ALLEN
with the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by KENNETH ALWYN PHILIP CHALLIS (piano)
Produced by ALAN OWEN
by Brian Hayles
Henry Walters nurses a sorrow which festers into an obsession.
An anthology of the poetry of William Wordsworth
by JOHN MOORE adapted and produced by PAUL HUMPHREYS
Read by Keith Banks
John Moore 's Brensham Vil lage was read by Keith Banks in Story Time last year, but Portrait of Elmbury was in fact the first to be published in the Brensham trilogy, the third being The Blue Field. These books, appearing just after the war, were warmly appreciated by a public eager to be reminded of rural England as it was before the deluge.
John Moore himself described Portrait of Elmbury as the story of a market town in England's 'middle west it is also his own story and he emerges from it as a sensitive. humorous, kindly observer. 1: Through the Window
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening
Including the latest news, the evening press, what's on tonight, the City, and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by William Hardcastle and Derek Cooper
5.50 Weather; programme news
5.55 South-East News
starring A. gibbon , OBE: and featuring
TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR , JOHN CLEESE GRAEME GARDEN, DAVID HATCH JO KENDALL , BILL ODDIE
With THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Written by BILL ODDIE and GRAEME GARDEN
Produced by DAVID HATCH and PETER TITHERADGE
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
with Gerald Priestland and Meryl O'Keeffe
World news and views
A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
by CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD
1 Czechoslovakia? You don'know enough to talk about it. You don'know quite enough to know who to talk to. No, Belle, you'll keep a stiff upper lip and play the game. Won'you? ... won'you?
Produced by COLIN TUCKER
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
A weekly programme about books and writers, including news, reviews, and interviews
Introduced by MAGNUS MAGNUSSON GRAHAM GREENE , four Of whose novels are published this week in a new collected edition. talks to RONALD BRYDEN
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE reviews a biography of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was executed by the Nazis MARGARET LANE and BARRY CAR-MAN on other new books including The Flight of the Eagle, a novel based on fact about a Polar expedition by balloon; On the Track of Unknown Animals, one of the first twelve titles in a new paperback series; and Counting My Steps, an autobiography by Jakov Lind
Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
A weekly look at the present plight and future shape of town and country
Compiled and introduced by NICHOLAS TAYLOR
This edition includes:
A new City and its Citizens: Milton Keynes will be the largest new community ever to be created in Britain. The plans are currently being presented at public meetings. Taking part tonight:
LORD CAMPBELL OF ESKAN
Chairman of Milton Keynes Development Corporation LORD LLEWELYN-DAVIES and WALTER BOR the city's planners GRAHAM ASHWORTH
Director of the Civic Trust for the North-West and some of the citizens who already live in the new city Produced by LEONIE COHN
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Northanger Abbey by JANE AUSTEN
Read by Dorothy Tutin (3) (Part 4: Friday at 11.0)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
