6.27 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 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
8.40 Today's Papers
by EVELYN WAUC.H
Read by HUGH BURDEN
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Beatrix Potter lived in the Lake District, became a farmer and sheep breeder, and delighted children young and old with her books.
NORMAN TURNER , Lancashire schoolmaster, writer, and fell walker. tells the story of her life, and of the continuing popularity of her books.
Produced by HAROLD ROGERS
NEM P 15; Child in the manger (BBC HB 45); Psalm 33. vv 13-21; Matthew 12, vv 14-24 (Rsv); 0 thou not made with hands (BBC HB 180)
with PEARL FAWCETT (accordion) and orchestral recordings made available by courtesy of German Radio
Introduced by JON CURLE
Five mountaineering stories adapted by KEITH HINDELL
3: No Picnic on Mount Kenya by FELICE BENUZZI
Reader ROBERT RIETTY
1942: three Italian prisoners of war escape to climb one of the highest mountains in Africa - simply to demonstrate their independence of spirit,
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Today's story: Tales of Joe and Timothy 3: 'The wind and the tickly vest ' by DOROTHY EDWARDS
with the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA led by WILLIAM HAND conducted by MICHAEL MOORES and DAVID MCCALLUM (violin) Produced by ALAN OWEN
by BILL WESTALL
1 We found we had this strong feeling for each other. It's not something people, can help. it rises up inside you and - bang! like that- it's happened.' from Birmingham
To celebrate her 70th birthday Douglas Stuart presents an informal profile of the public face of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, with comments and reminiscences by some of those who have met her on and off duty.
Rondo in c major
LIESELOTTE GIERTH and GERD LOHMEYER (piano duet) gramophone record
The novel by JON MANCHIP WHITE abridged in five episodes by GORDON COW read by Richard Hurndall
The triple pillars of Colonel Morrigan's life are his country, his family, and his club. Unexpectedly he is plunged into a legal wrangle. His only aim is to act by his lifelong sense of integrity; yet, to his bewilderment, his actions lose him his reputation as a lovable old soldier.
1: The Schedule
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
Jimmy Clitheroe in A Right Son of a Gun With PETER SINCLAIR
PATRICIA BURKE , DANNY ROSS DIANA DAY, BRIAN TRUEMAN COLIN EDWYNN
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
TONY BILBOW talks to producer-director STANLEY KRAMER about his Hollywood career and the filming of The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Written by LYN FAIRHURST Produced by BOBBY JAYE
by D. M. OAKKS starring Derek Nimmo as Gregory Masterful , a quiet retiring bachelor: hardly - one would have thought - the type of man to be involved with a dead body, smuggling, and damsels in distress; but when you haven'seen your father since you were born and you are at last given the opportunity of meeting him ...
Produced by GLYN DEARMAN
With RONALD EYRE
JOHN DONAT reviews Doreen Yarwood s biography of the great British architect Robert Adam
P. J. KAVANAGH takes a new look at the Georgian poet Harold Monro , whose Collected Poems have been published for the first time since 1933
PETER SHAFFER on The Dream King, Wilfred Blunt 's biography of Wagner's ' mad ' patron. Ludwig II of Bavaria
Michael BURN talks about his comparison of The Debatable Land of spies in Queen Elizabeth's day with the modern world of Philby, Burgess, and Maclean and other new books
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON
"I think actresses are generally more intelligent than actors"
"Sex symbols are remote ladies... I'm a reality. I'm a blemished faulty human being"
Glenda Jackson talks to Martin Esslin about her work in the theatre, in films and on television, and analyses the problems facing actors and actresses in these media today.
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
In which Wilfred De'ath visits bit, the Underground Information Service, and enjoys a meal at Seed, a macrobiotic restaurant
The Shepherd File by CONRAD VOSS BARK
Read by RICHARD BEBB (13)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
