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 Mania 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
In every era some particular kind of musician has been ' all the rage'
SIDNEY HARRISON discusses seven significant types with recordings by and about them 1: Canary Fanciers
Produced by DENYS GUEROULT
Movement, Mime, and Music 1 by JAMES DODOING for the 7-9-year-olds
Produced by VERA GRAY
NEM p 37: The race that long in darkness pined (BBC hb 496); Psalm 98; Romans 15 vv 7-17, 16, vv 25-27 (NEB); Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts (BBC HB 323)
1: .. . the elephant and the kangaroo
A sequence of music and verse Readers ELIZABETH PROUD and NIGEL LAWSON
Produced bv MADEAU STEWART
(BBC Sound Archive recording)
Foreign Correspondent
A BBC correspondent talks on a topic of interest and importance in the immediate past, present, or future
11.0 Examining a Plant by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.20 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY
WHITTAM Jack and the Beanstalk with music specially composed by PAMELA KENWAY and VERA GRAY Produced by VERA GRAY
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.40 Contemporary History
1: Hitler and the Jews - a study of the social roots of genocide. Written and narrated by PHILIP HOLLAND
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
12.55 Weather; programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
In the centenary year of the British Red Cross Society A. B. HODGSON , Deputy Director-General, talks about its work today.
(Further enquiries to: British Red Cross Society, 9 Grosvenor Crescent, London, SW1)
Story: The Boy with Wooden Shoes by HAZEL FLETCHER : part 2
Music Workshop 2
There is to be a celebration in the village and it will be attended by no less than His Worship the Mayor
Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 Poetry and Jazz Appearances
VERNON SCANNELL introduces some poems to music by the MICHAEL GARRICK TRIO With DIANA OLSSON and STEPHEN THORNE
Produced by STUART EVANS (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Butter/lies and Moths by MARGARET SHEFFIELD (Nature)
A play for radio by DORIS GREENE with Penelope Lee as Berthe and Philip Bond , Denis McCarthy
' Is Berthe as famous as that, then?' My dear Baroness. she's one of the leading lights in the world's greatest peace movement.'
The action takes place towards the end of last century.
Produced by JOHN POWELL
A monthly programme reflecting life in the country with a Natural History contribution by ERIC SIMMS Introduced by C. GORDON GLOVER
Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS
by JOHN MOORE adapted and produced by PAUL HUMPHREYS
Read by KEITH BANKS
4: Markets, Farming, and Sales
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 TITlIERADGE
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
A review of current trends and past influences in the cinema
by JILL HYEM
No woman ever likes to imagine herself as being middle-aged; but when you have an 18-year-old son who thinks of you as something out of the Ark. you need to take drastic steps if you're to become ' with it '!
Produced by JANE GRAHAM
(Repeated: Thursday. 3.0 pm)
Introduced by MAGNUS MAGNUSSON JOHN WAIN talks about his latest novel A Winter in the Hills, set in North Wales
EDGAR LUSTGARTEN reviews Their Good Names, H. Montgomery Hyde's account of twelve famous cases of defamation
HILARY SPURLING and JOHN WEIGHTMAN on A Death in the Sanchez Family by Oscar Lewis ; Andr6 Malraux 's novel of the Spanish Civil War, Days of Hope, now in paperback; He Slew the Dreamer, the story of Martin Luther King 's assassin Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK †
Historic Buildings: have we got our priorities rightf
We spend less each year on preserving historic buildings, which all can enjoy, than on Covent Garden Opera, which few can attend. Even the money that is spent goes more on isolated ruins than on inhabited cities.
In the first of two programmes on what should or should not be conserved, NICHOLAS TAYLOR talks with LORD KENNET. Parliamentary Secretary. Ministry of Housing and Local Government (' the Minister for Conservation '): MICHAEL MIDDLETON , Director of the Civic Trust; and VISCOUNT ESHER , architect-planner and author of the York Conservation Study.
Produced by LEONIE COHN
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Northanger Abbey
Read by Dorothy Tutin (17)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends