8.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer 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 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
presents an anthology of verse and prose which means a great deal to him assisted by BARBARA JEFFORD before an invited audience at Dartington
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN (Paul Rogers is in ' The Happy Apple ' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
NEM P 76; Be thou my guardian and my guide (BBC HB 135 Psalm 118, vv 1-14; St Matthew 8, vv 1-17 (RSV); Lead us. heavenly Father, lead us (BBC HB 307)
presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest FAY LENORE
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN Sutherland
Produced by EDDIE FRASER †
by MARGERY ALLiNGHAM Reader RONALD HARVI
Fourth of seven stories of crime and detection
TIM MATTHEWS introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues Please write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA. Or telephone [number removed].
by Henry Cecil
Adapted for radio, from the TV series by Richard Waring, by Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby
[with] Richard Waring as Henry Blagrove, John Glyn Jones as Grimes, Ann Davies as Sally Mannering, James Beck as Fred Tanner, Blake Butler as Mr Trench
Guest stars Liz Fraser as Mrs Trench and Frank Thornton as The Magistrate
12.55 Weather; programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story : Nicholas and the Telephone Matt by georgina cotton
with the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE BRETT conducted by KENNETH ALWYN and THE KING'S SINGERS
by D. L. MURRAY adapted for radio in 10 parts by THEA HOLME with Violet is realising her ambition as an actress with Sir Julius's company and has picked up a devoted servant. Lachmann, along the way. Rubens is beginning to corner the South African mines market, but Josie and his partner Smeltz are becoming just a little too thick....
4: In the Row that Men Call Rotten
Produced by BRIAN MILLER †
from the novel
A Beauty for Inspector West by JOHN CREASEY dramatised as a serial in seven parts by MAURICE TRAVERS with Animosity between Roger West and Turnbull is not helping to trap the killer of a local beauty queen.
2: Killer - with a Question Mark
A series of six programmes compiled by BARRY CAMPBELL 3: The Doctor's Story from The Lost Secret of the Cocos Group by j.JEBB Read by HARRY Webster
Produced by R. D. SMITH
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening
Including the latest news, the evening press, what's on tonighl. the City, and the people and talking points of the day. Presented bv
William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5.50 Weather; programme news
5.55 South-East News
ANONA WINN, 30Y
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFOHTH. PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair
Produced by BOBBY JAYE
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley, John Graham
Lamb: "I say, One, isn't this the week the Prime Minister pulls my trousers off, and you launch a space rocket, and Sir Gregory gets a bullet-proof bowler hat to protect him from a mad assassin?"
Lennox-Brown: "Yes. Well, you get these quiet weeks sometimes..."
1 I always like people who keep diaries,' wrote Chips Channon in his diary: 'they are not as others, at least not quite.' Why do people keep diaries? What value are they to posterity?
Nigel Rees examines a selection of 20th-century diaries including those of CECIL BEATON SIR HENRY CHANNON
JOYCE GRENFELL , THOMAS JONES LORD MORAN, HAROLD NICOLSON and VIRGINIA WOOLF With the opinions of Quentin Bell
Robert Rhodes James Keith Middlemass and . Nigel Nicolson
Readers SEAN BARRETT
MARGOT BOYD. MALCOLM HAYES and VIVIAN STANSHALL
Produced by ANNE DUNCAN-JONES
talks to DANIEL SNOWMAN about her life as one of the country's leading harpists and about her memories of music-making during the course of half a century.
A review of achievement and a criticism of failures by Sir Alee Clegg , Chief Education Officer, West Riding
In 1870, ' 'way down at the bottom was England and Wales with one child in school for every 14 people in the country.' In 1970. ' our national attitude is " suffer little children with an 10 of 120+ to receive the best secondary education, for they shall add most to the Gross National Product." '
(Shortened version of a lecture given at Central Hall, Westminster on 1 May)
9.58 Weather
The News
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The Shepherd File by CONRAD VOSS BARK
Read by RICHARD BEBB (2)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
