6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Thought for the Day
6.59 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 8.40
An Act of Worship
Introduced by RALPH ROLLS
4: Birds as musicians illustrated by JOAN HALL-CRAGGS with a contribution from TERRY GOMPERTZ
Presented by ERIC SIMMS
Produced by ROSEMARY JELLIS
Movement and Music 2 by JAMES DODDING
Space ship adventures - 4
NEM p 1; Holy, holy, holy (BBC HB 169); Psalm 3; Genesis 24, vv 63-67, 25, vv 20-26 (NEB); God moves in a mysterious way (BBC HB 8)
Portraits by ROBERT STANNAGE , compiled from recordings in the BBC Sound Archives 4: The Mediterranean Sea
Produced by HAROLD ROGERS
A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY 24: Ghosts
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0 Edal the Otter
From ' Ring of Bright Water ' by GAVIN MAXWELL (Springboard)
11.20 Hide and Seek
Poems by Vernon Scannell , Charles Causley , John Walsh ; and a story by James Jones (Listening and Writing)
11.40 Prospect
Man changes Man
4: Prolongation of Life
Compiled by TONY GIBSON
12.0 Announcements
A selection of items from BBC radio and television
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Script by JEAN STROUD
Produced by JOHN HASLAM
(Extended version: Sunday,
4.0 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Cat, the Cow, the Dog, and the Milk by DOROTHY EDWARDS
The Big Delphinium by MARY COCKETT (Let's Join In)
Best-seller
Storyteller Noel Streatfeild talks to JOHN ELLISON about how she became an actress and then an authoress
Shakuntula: a story from
India, written by JOSE JAFFA (Stories and Rhymes)
by HUGH BURDEN with Mary Wimbush and Hugh Burden
When Catherine wakes up one morning with a bad hangover, she is unable to remember the events of the night before. Soon it becomes apparent that something awful has happened ...
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to some of the views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions? from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
by MARGARET POTTER
True stories of courage, determination. ingenuity, and luck 3: The King's Lieutenant
James Graham , Marquis of Montrose, was, according to Carlyle, ' the noblest cavalier of them all.' During the Civil War he was responsible for snatching his army of 1.500 men from certain death, escaping with them over icy mountains to become the victors of the Battle of Inverlochy. Narrative spoken by GEOFFREY BANKS who also portrays all the characters Produced by TREVOR HILL
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
A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN Round 2: featuring each week three winners from Round 1 6: Scotland
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
by CHARLES DICKENS adapted for radio in 12 parts Peter Woodthorpe as Fagin Felix Felton as Mr Bumble and Stephen Bone as Oliver 7: Friends and Enemies
A spontaneous discussion by THE RT HON EDWARD DU CANN , MP THE BISHOP OF CREDITON LORD WILLIS, LADY SAYER Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced bv MICHAEL BOWEN from The Village Hall, Throwleigh, Devon
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answeraf should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol, BS8 2LR.
7: Georg Buchner
Georg Buchner died in 1837 at the age of 23. He is perhaps best known as the author of the play from which Alban Berg took his opera Wozzeck. He was so far ahead of his time that many people do not realise that he was writing in the early 19th century. Both Woyzeck and Danton's Death are extremely relevant today. Victor Henry as Buchner Patricia Gallimore as Minna and the voices of JOHN BRYNING , JOHN RYE
MARY O'FARRELL , JOSS ACKLAND and JOAN MILLER
Narrated by DENYS HAWTHORNE Written by MARTIN ESSLIN
Produced by SUSANNA CAPON
The violence in our society is the fault of the constant diet of violence on our television screens. This at least is a view that is commonly held. But what are the facts?
KRISHAN KUMAR, lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, introduces the views of people with special competence in this complex field.
Produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Do the Polls Hold the Key*
Is it skill in timing - or lack of it - that is the main factor in determining the occupancy of Number 10? This is the sphere in which the role of the Polls can be crucial, and it is therefore important to examine the principles to which they should subscribe. In this the second broadcast in Radio Four's Special Election Year series, MICHAEL SHIELDS , Chairman of National Opinion Polls, is questioned by ANTHONY KING , Professor of Government, Essex University. Produced by MARTIN cox
The Judge's Story by CHARLES MORGAN read by Marius Goring abridged by GABRIEL WOOLF Produced by JOHN CARDY Last of 10 instalments
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11.31 Market Trends
