6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50 Weather; programmenews
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
7.50Weatlier; programmenews
7.55 South-East News
and more of Today
8.40 Today's Papers
Johnny Morris in South America
In six instalments he describes his journey of almost 20,000 miles through Brazil, Argentina, and Chile 2: Brazil
How to save it
Where to keep it
How - hopefully - to make it grow
Introduced by ANTHONY BROWN Produced by WALTER WALLICH
The Unmarried Mother and the need for day nurseries
JOHN TIDMARSH investigates
Produced by ELIZABETH SMITH
NEM p 44: Come down, 0 Love divine (BBC HB 149); Psalm 89; St Matthew 4, vv 12-25 (RSV); 0 God whose will is life and good (BBC HB 381)
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND With BRETT STEVENS
Introduced by JON CURLE
The autobiography of Prince Felix Youssoupoff read by GEORGE MERRITT 5: Russia's Evil Genius
12.0 Announcements
A selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Script by JEAN STROUD
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Extended version: Sunday,
4.0 pm)
12.55Weather; programmenews
The News and voices and topics in and behind theheadlines, introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Tommy's Castle by MARY SADLER
with JOHN BARROW (baritone) and orchestral recordings made available by courtesy of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and of Czechoslovak and German Radios
Produced by ALAN OWEN
From the Sixties:
Androcles and the Lion by BERNARD SHAW
A shortened version for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Leslie French
Although his play is a comedy, the piteous plight of the early Christians under their Roman masters gives Shaw a forum for his not uncynical comments upon human frailty in general and Religious Faith and martyrdom in particular. with ANTONY VICCARS
PETER BALDWIN. CAROL MARSH and SIAN DAVIES
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL followed by an interlude
The Autobiography of a Super Tramp by w. H. DAVIES (1871-1940) abridged in six episodes by HOWARD JONES read by DAVID DAVIS
5: The Ark and the Farmhouse
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
Grand Finale
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestiand presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
by D. L. MURRAY adapted for radio in 10 parts by THEA HOLME with Joe Melia as Sam Rubens Deborah Dallas as Josie 2: King Charles's Head
1858-1924
1 am a mighty hunter of wild-fowl, attractive women, and good opera libretti
A portrait in words and music by MICHAEL KENNEDY
Few composers have possessed a greater gift for melody, a more instinctive sense of the theatre, than Puccini, vet few have been more bitterly reviled. Three of the most popular operas ever written came from his pen, but there was a time when his name could hardly be mentioned in respectable musical circles. with WILFRED HARRISON as PuCCini Narrator DAVID MARLOWE Other parts
RONALD HARVI , PAUL WEBSTER Produced bv
STANLEY WILIAMSON
' Wherever I tell this tale they think I've made it up. But if you've taught in Batley you'll believe it.'
MILLICENT ISHERWOOD has indeed taught in Batley.
Do comprehensive schools work?
An investigation by ROBERT SKIDELSKY
Are they effective in creating equality of opportunity? Do they provide a good education for the more able pupil? Can a school be truly comprehensive if there is selection inside it? ROBERT SKIDELSKY has visited comprehensive schools and has talked to educationists, sociologists, and local education authority members, including PROFESSOR BRIAN SIMON , and CAROLINE BENN Of ILEA, joint authors of Half Way There. Produced by Richard KEEN
The News
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A journalist from abroad takes a lookatGreatBritain this week
Flush by VIRGINIA WOOLF read by BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT (5)
Graeme Garden looks back at the week's news - and sees the funny side featuring
SEAN ARNOLD , ALAN BARRY
JOHN GABRIEL , NIGEL LAMBERT Script by PETER SPENCE
Produced by DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT
preceded by Weather
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