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
and more of Today
8.40 Today's Papers
John Betjeman examines four vanished worlds with recordings made by the people who inhabited them.
Until two years ago few travellers had explored the tropical forest of the Mato Grosso. Now Brazilian farmers are burning it down for cattle ranches and driving out the Indians. Soon it may only live in the notebooks of a recent Royal Society Expedition.
ERIC BROWN , PHILIP HUGH-JONES , and ROSEMARY MCCONNEL talk to ANTHONY SMITH
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON
NEM p 87; Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137); Psalm 119, part 5; Romans 3, vv 29-31 and 5, vv 1-11 (NEB); Lighten the darkness (BBC HB 520)
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conducted by TERENCE LOVETT with DAVID AND MARIANNE DALMOUR
Introduced by PETER BARKER
by STEPHEN MULRINE is the last of five morning plays from round and about Britain . , I I owe a lot to that school, Benny. You never realise it at the time, but that school did a lot for me. You maybe remember me saying about a teacher I used to have, this Mister Fisher. ...'
Other parts MARY riggans and GWYNETH CUTHRIE
Produced by GORDON EMSLIE
12.0 Announcements
A selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days introduced by JOHN ELLISON Script by JEAN STROUD
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Extended version: Sunday,
4.0 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
for children under 5
Story: Mark and his Teddy Bears go Fishing by AUDREY ALLEN
with the LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by VERNON HANDLEY PHILIP CHALLIS (piano)
Produced by ALAN OWEN
by BERNARD SHAW with Lyndon Brook and June Tobin
A battle of wits may prove almost as exciting as the real thing. Especially so when one antagonist is a clever, beautiful, resourceful woman and the other a man destined to redraw the frontiers of Europe.
The action takes place in northern Italy: the year 1796. Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
A selection of the best 60-minute plays broadcast during the last decade.
3: The Duke of Kent's French Lady
The story of Edward Duke of Kent and Julie St Laurent Written by RUTH JORDAN
Narrated by MICHAEL MCCLAIN
Other parts mabi hedd,
SEAN BARRETT , MALCOLM HAYES
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
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
Chairman FRANKLIN ENCELMANN
14: Northern Ireland (ti)
JAMES BLACKLEV.CoTyrone ice-cream manufacturer GRANVILLE WEIR, Co Down production scheduler
THE REV DR M. W. DEWAR , CO DOWn j. G. O'REILLY , Belfast training officer
Including Beat the Brains Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Produced by JOAN CLARK
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
with Gerald Priestland and Meryl O'Keeffe
World news and views
by CHARLES DICKENS
1: The Parish Orphan
(Tuesday s broadcast)
A spontaneous discussion by LORD KEARTON, PETER HALL SIR EDWIN LEATHER MARGHANITA LASKI
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from the North Oxfordshire Technical College and School of Art, Banbury
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol, BS8 2LR.
1: John Keats 1795-1821
A series of portraits of some brilliantly gifted people who died young. with Ronald Pickup as Keats
Written and narrated by DEREK PARKER
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
(Ronald Pickup is a National Theatre player)
On the eve of the Budget, an examination of Britain's longer-term economic prospects. Those taking part include: John Biffen, MP, F.H.R. Catherwood, Director-General Of NEDC,
Professor Richard E. Caves Of Harvard University, Gilbert de Botton, Managing Director of Rothschild's, Zurich, Victor Feather, General Secretary of TUC, The Rt Hon Richard Marsh, MP, Peter Oppenheimer, Student Of Christ Church, Oxford, Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of IMF
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A journalist from abroad takes a look at Great Britain this weekt
Northanger Abbey by JANE AUSTEN read by Dorothy Tutin (4)
preceded by Weather
