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
Today's Papers at 8.41
The weekly series reflecting wildlife and its position in today's ever-changing world Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer 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 4: An Interesting Pallor
Produced by DENYS GUEROULT
Movement, Mime, and Music I by JAMES DODDING for the 7-9-year-olds '
NEM p 99; The Saviour died. but rose again (BBC HE 497); Psalm 91, vv 1-13; Genesis 21, vv 1-19 (NEB): Through the night of doubt and sorrow (BBC HB 186)
4: Birds Great and Small
A sequence of music and verse Readers SONIA FRASER and PETER TUDDENHAM
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 Observing Birds by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.20 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY
WHITTAM Jack and the Beanstalk
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.40 Contemporary History 4: The Partition of India
A survey of the relations between Moslem and Hindu communities around the time" of partition.
Written and narrated by JOHN TUSA
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Dundee in Angus
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
12.55 Weather; programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story Happy Birthday, Mummy!, a Margaret Ellen story by KATHLEEN RAMSAY
Music Workshop 2
Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 Poetry and Folksong Love and Loneliness
SEAMUS HEANEY introduces poems read by MICHAEL LONGLEY and DEREK MAHON and songs from DAVID HAMMOND
(Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Making Maps by JEAN CONRAN (Nature)
A Slight Ache with Vivien Merchant and Michael Hordern
A perfect summer day. The whole garden in flower. But Edward has a slight ache in his eyes and there is a match-seller at the garden gate.
Produced by guy VAESEN
(Vivien Merchant and Michael Hordern are in ' Flint' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
Norman Barrymaine talking to WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Barrymaine is one of several British prisoners recently released from Chinese Communist gaols. But, in certain ways, he is intriguingly different from the rest.
Produced by MICHAEL WHITOCK
The thriller by KEITH ROBERTS abridged in six parts by NEVILLE TELLER read by FRANK DUNCAN 1: Invasion
It all started with a nuclear explosion which went wrong. Then the Furies struck-an inhuman force that took the form of droves of giant wasps. Like the Furies of Greek legend they hunted mankind and began to enslave the world.
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
by Don Watts
with Jonathan Lynn
Young Percy Spooner is a big lad. Well, to be more truthful, Percy is fat - very fat - and to a young man this presents problems, because not all girls recognise 'the thin man inside.'
Introduced by Magnus Magnusson
Richard Huggett on his new book The Truth About 'Pygmalion' which recreates the first night of Bernard Shaw 's most famous play
John Masters, author of Bhowani Junction and other adventure stories, talks about his latest book The Rock, a history of Gibraltar
Alan Brien and Rene Cutforth on other new books: Papillon, the true story of an escape from Devil's Island; Elleston Trevor's new novel Bury Him Among Kings; and Sean Bourke's own account of The Springing of George Blake
A weekly look at the present plight and the future shape of town and country
Compiled and introduced by NICHOLAS TAYLOR
Universities - what kind of Community,
In recent controversies on the new university campuses, many traditional assumptions about university life have been challenged. Some of the buildings and residential facilities recently provided have been hotly criticised.
The programme includes
DAVID ALLFORD of Yorke Rosen berg Mardall, the architects of Warwick University, in discussion with students and staff; PETER SHEPHEARD , architect-planner of Lancaster University ; and DR JOAN BROTHERS , joint author of a forthcoming report on student residence.
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 (8)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
