6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Thought for the Day
6.56 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
7.5* Weather; programme news
7.55 South-East News
and more of Today
8.40 Today's Papers
by JOHN RIDGWAY and CHAY BLYTH abridged by DONALD BANCROFT read by the authors
Produced by PAUL STEPHENSON
(Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast)
presents his personal choice of poetrv and prose and talks of the significance of his selection Before an invited audience at the Playhouse Theatre, London Produced by HELEN FRY
NEM p 11; Souls of men, why will ye scatter (BBC hb 20); Psalm 103, vv 1-13; 1 Thessalonians 4, vv 1-14, 18 (NEB); 0 for a faith that will not shrink (BBC HB 310)
presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest JANE FYFFE
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by EDDIE FRASER
by DEREK WALKER
Why does the car have to break down at this spot, just at this moment? And with only 25 minutes to go before kick-off? '
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
TIM MATTHEWS introduces 25 jninutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues
by HENRY CECIL
Written and adapted for radio from the TV series by RICHARD WARING Judgment Summons
Other parts played by PATRICIA GALLIMORE , ALAN BARRY JOHN GABRIEL , MALCOLM HAYES This week's guest star
Produced by DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Pussy Simkin in the Park by LINDA GREENBURY
with the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE BRETT conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON VALERIE TRYON (piano)
Produced by ALAN OWEN
by D. L. MURRAY adapted for radio in 10 parts by THEA HOLME with 1: To Brighton, to Brighton!
Sam Rubens has arrived back in England from South Afvica after 17 years - newly rich, but lonely. So to Brighton he goes, a gay Brighton of the 1890s, where the Three Witches enter his life ...
With RICHARD PARRY
Produced by BRIAN MILLER (Repeated: Friday, 7.30 pm)
by CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD
5: Universal General Hire
In which Hilary gets tied up but is forced to hang on for rescue from the sky.
Five programmes edited by SIMONA PAKENHAM from personal accounts by famous travellers 5: V. Sackville-West
Read by PATRICIA GALLIMORE
Produced by TERENCE TILLER
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 mystery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair
Produced by BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestiand presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
starring
Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Bye-Bye Mildred
Wiltl NORMA RONALD
JOHN GRAHAM , GORDON CLYDE JO MANNING WILSON
Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
or The Heart and the Purse
Benny Green takes a light-hearted look at the effect on American popular music of the Eastern European Jewish immigrants of the late 19th century.
From the Hollywood studio moguls to the composers and performers of Broadway, the immigrants influenced everything from how to speak the language to how to sell the show. The results were often brilliant, usually mercenary. and always hilarious - as this programme illustrates.
Produced by STEVE ALLEN
(What American pop music owes to Tsar Alexander: page 12)
Lord Ismay Born in India, he became a distinguished Army Staff Officer, right-hand man to Churchill in the war, assistant to Mount-batten in the Partition of India, Secretary-General to NATO. A pall-bearer at Churchill's funeral, he outlived his chief by only 10 months.
SIR RONALD WINGATE , friend and colleague, introduces a radio biography of Lord Ismay, with special contributions from LORD AVON, SIR IAN JACOB and SIR WILLIAM ELLIOT Research by ANN MEO
Produced by HELEN FRY
... a tale, which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner Some comparisons by SHEILA SMITH between famous radio story-tellers in the BBC Sound Archives including Algernon Blackwood. A. J. Alan , Ted Hughes , and traditional story-tellers of North-East Scotland and the Shetlands. with readings by DAVID KING and DEREK SMITH
Produced by CHARLES PARKER
(Broadcastin March: Midland) (Derek Smith is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
An mp elected for the first time. talks about the recent campaign and what he (or she) hopes the new Parliament will achieve
The White Colt by DAVID ROOK read by PAUL ROGERS (6)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
