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 and John Timpson
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
(Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast)
5: Staying Together for the Sake of the Children
When parents no longer love each other, should they stay together to maintain a home for the children? Is a strained atmosphere worse for a child than separation from one parent?
People who have been involved explain their point of view. Professional workers in marriage guidance, psychology, and child-care, comment.
Introduced by LESI,IE SMITH
Produced by BARBARA CROWTHER
Songs from PEGGY SEEGER (BBC Archive recordings)
NEM p 11; My God, how wonderful thou art (BBC HB 12); Psalm 103, vv 1-13; Romans 11, vv 13-18, 25-32 (NEH): The Lord's my Shepherd (BBC HB 480)
presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest MARIAN DAVIES and the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by MARTIN GOLDSTEIN Produced by EDDIE FRASER
by Brian Longmore
You can never escape having to see prospective in-laws, but sometimes it is an eye-opener for the most unexpected reasons.
WALTER TAPLIN introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues
Please write to: Listening Post, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA. Or telephone [number removed]
from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
with
A Test of Intelligence: written and adapted by DONALD BULL
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE (Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55Weather; programmenews
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
for children under 5
Story: George the Little Grey Van becomes an Ambulance by SHIRLEY ROWE
with the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA led by AUDREY BRETT conducted by JOHN BARKER JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin)
Produced by ALAN OWEN
by Charles Dickens : adapted in 12 parts by GILES COOPER with 3: In Trouble
In which Oliver, having run away to London, learns further particulars concerning the pleasant old Gentleman, who is his host, and his hopeful Pupils.
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL (Repeated: Friday, 7.30 pm)
Eight stories of the British in India by BERKELY MATHER 3: A Duck in Bombay with William Fox
' Bombay was a happy hunting ground for con men in the old days ... goes on a bit even now.'
Six stories chosen and produced by DAVID DAVIS 1: The Apple Tree by ELIZABETH BOWEN read by PATIENCE collier
1 Every now and then I wake, to see Doria get up and tie the cord round her waist and go out. I have to go after her; there is always the apple tree. Its roots are in me. It takes, all my strength ... '
(Patience Collier is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)
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
ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mvstery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair
Produced by BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 pm)
Gerald Pricstland 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 Martin Jarvis , Felix Felton and Denys Hawthorne as Tolstoy
17: Patience and Time adapted by VAL GIELGUD
Cast in order of speaking:
Directed by JOHN POWELL
Have a good took at that man, that's Lenin. Observe his obstinate, self-willed skull
(Rosa Luxemburg )
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) was born 100 years ago this month. This commemorative programme reconstructs his life and includes eye-witness accounts, both British and Russian, of the Revolution and the man who made it.
Research and comment by JOHN ERICKSON , Professor of Politics, Edinburgh University
Compiled and produced by TONY GOULD
DONALD c. WATT, Reader in International History, London School of Economics, and JOHN ERICKSON , Professor of Politics, Edinburgh University, talk about the role of secret intelligence in the formulation of foreign policy.
' We are not, of course, talking about spy stories ... but about the use and assessment of such intelligence when governments make up their foreign policy.'
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Northanger Abbey by JANE AUSTEN
Read by Dorothy Tutin (11)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
