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
HARRY SOAN takes DEREK JONES on a Radio Nature Trail along the Usk Valley in Breconshire Produced by DILYS BREESE
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 3: The Keyboard Hussar
Produced by DENYS GUEROULT t-
Movement, Mime, and Music 1 by JAMES OODDING for the 7-9-year-olds
NEM p 80; 0 God our help in ages past (BBC HB 467); Psalm 34. vv 1*10; Genesis 12, vv 1-5, 13 vv 5-17 (NEB); 0 for a closer walk with God (BBC HB 333)
3: Cats and Rats
A sequence of music and verse Readers ELIZABETH PROUD and NIGEL LAMBERT
Produced by 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 Looking at a Tree by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.20 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY
WHITTAM Jack and the Beanstalk
Produced by VERA GRAY
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.40 Contemporary History 3: Gandhi
A study of non-violent resistance
Written by MICHAEL EDWARDES
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Witham and East Essex
Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
for children under 5
Story: The Tree: 1 Lullaby by MARGARET GORE
Music Workshop 2
Konrad of the Mountains earns immortality
Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 Poetry and Jazz Ironies
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 Buttercups and Daisies by OLIVER GILBERT
Each different kind of flower has its petals and leaves arranged in a characteristic way (Nature)
Self-Defence
A play for radio by DULCIE GRAY with Richard Hurndall and Sheila Grant
'It's self-defence, that's the whole beauty of it! Self-defence! '
Cast:
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
In Britain over a million and a quarter women take regularly the most effective contraceptive, the pill, despite the possibility of illness, even death. Medical opinion is divided on the implications of the scientific evidence and there is confusion among the pill-takers. What are the pros and cons of the pill? Is there cause for alarm? Isn'there any fully effective contraceptive other than the pill, and male sterilisation? Can Britain afford over 820,000 new babies a year?
Introduced by PAUL VAUGHAN Produced by GEORGE FISCHER and DAVID PATERSON
by JOHN MOORE read by keith BANKS adapted and produced by PAUL HUMPHREYS
6: Indian Summer
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 Steve Race
5.50 Weather; programme news
5.55 South-East News
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
A review of current trends and past influences in the cinema
by JOSEPH MUSAPHIA with Betty Baskcomb and Peter Tuddenham
'Silence is golden, but his eyes still see ...! '
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
A weekly programme about books and writers Introduced by MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
ALAN- MELVILLE looks at Life in Brighton, an illustrated history of the famed seaside resort
JANE LANE , HILDA LEWIS , NORAH LOFTS, and JEAN PLAIDY on the writing of historical novels
NANCY BANKS SMITH and JONATHAN RABAN on Down All- the Days, Christy Brown 's novel about Dublin: a biography, Gauguin's Astonishing Grandmother; and a contemporary account of a 17th-century search for the North West Passage, North West to Hudson Bay and other new books
Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
A weekly look at the present plight and future shape of town and country
The Design of Homes: Do we Consult the Consumer'
Are we so short of land that we have to build towers of flats, regardless of people's wishes? The Ronan Point disaster highlighted the divergence between the homes we build and the convenience of those who have to live in them. NICHOLAS TAYLOR discusses current trends in housing design with OLIVER cox , architect and town planner. FRED POOLEY , county architect and planner of Buckinghamshire, and NEIL WATES , house-builder.
Produced by LEONIE COHN
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The Judge's Story by CHARLES MORGAN read by Marius Goring (3)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
