6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Thought for the Day
9.50 Weather; programme news
4.55 South-East News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio and John Timpson
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50Weatber: programme news
7.55 South-East News
and more of Today
8.40 Today's Papers
(Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast)
4: Louking After a Foster Child LESLIE smith considers some of the problems involved for both child and foster-parent.
Produced by BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM page 96; Glorious things of thee are spoken <BBC HB 176); Psalm 29; Romans 7, vv 1-13 (NEB)The Lord will come (BBC HB 479)
presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest SHEENA HOUSTON BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by EDDIE FRASER
from A History of the Fortress of Malta bv MAJOR WHITWORTH PORTER arranged by HOWARD JONES Reader DENYS HAWTHORNE
WALTER TAPLIN introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues i
from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
The Spinster: written and adapted by DICK SHARPLES
12. 55 Weather; programmenews
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Captain Snipper-Snapper and Shipmate tile Pussycat by CHRISTINE REES : part 2
with the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND-ORCHESTRA conducted by TERENCE LOVETT and EDWARD DARLING and URSULA CONNORS
Produced by ALAN OWEN
2 The White Dacoit
by CHARLES DICKENS : adapted in 12 parts by GILES COOPER
2 Oliver Runs Away
In which Oliver, now apprenticed to the undertaker Sowerberry forms an unfavourable Notion of his Masters Business.
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL (Repeated: Friday, 7.30 pm)
(What the Dickens?: Wed, 4.0)
Point by point, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer makes his
Budget Speech this afternoon
Radio 4's special team in the News and Current Affairs studio bring you a flow of news Bashes, up-dated summaries every quarter of an hour from approximately 4.0 to 5.30 pm, and explanatory comment and reaction.
In the studio:
MARGOT NAYLOR , author Of How tu Reduce your Tax Bill; IAN COULTER , Assistant Editor of The Economist: WILLIAM DAVIS , financial expert and editor of Punch; with the BBC's industrial correspondent REG ABBISS in the chair
From outside London, BBC Radio Leeds provides reactions from a major industrial centre.
WILLIAM HARDCASTLE discusses the Budget Speech with mps of all three parties in the BBC's Westminster studio as soon as the Chancellor has finished.
(Coverage of the Budget on BBC1 from 3.0. The Chancellor speaks tonight and The Rt Hon lain Macleod tomorrow night: BBC1 at 9.10. Radio 4 at 10.10, BBC2 at 11.0)
5.50 Weather; programme news
5.55 South-East News
Anona Winn, Joy Adamson, Norman Hackforth, Peter Glaze with a mystery guest and David Franklin in the chair
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
by LEO TOLSTOY
A dramatisation in 20 parts from the translation by LOUISE and AYLMER MAUDE
Edited by MICHAEL BAKEWELL Executive producer RONALD MASON with David Buck , Kate Binchy Patrick Troughton Christopher Guinee
Elizabeth Proud , Jeremy Clyde and Denys Hawthorne as Tolstoy
16: The Foil of Moscow adapted by CONSTANCE cox Cast in order of speaking:
Directed by RONALD MASON (Repeated: Sunday, 2 30 pm)
(Jeremy Clyde is in Conduct Unbecoming' at the Queen's Theatre; Christopher Guinee in 'The Magistrate' at the Cambridge Theatre, London)
Presented by The Rt Hon Sir Edward Boyle, MP
Bertrand Russell was involved in all the great issues of his time. He opposed the First World War. He supported the emancipation of women and advocated sexual freedom. He was an early opponent of communism and fought fascism. His last years were increasingly devoted to warning the world of the dangers of nuclear war. What did Russell achieve? What use is his advice today?
Speakers include: MICHAEL FOOT, MP
PROFESSOR CHARLES WILSON DR GEORGE STEINER
PROFESSOR JOHN REX
PROFESSOR BERNARD WILLIAMS PROFESSOR DONALD MACKINNON
DORA RUSSELL, CONRAD RUSSELL, and recordings of Bertrand Russell
Research by NIGEL WILLIAMS
Produced by JACK AMOS
(In Michael Foot 's view: p 12)
The Chancellor of the Exchequer The Rt Hon
Roy Jenkins , mp for the Government
10.20 Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Northanger Abbey
Read by Dorothy Tutin (6)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
