6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Weather, information, and news for your area
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
7.50-8.0 Weather, information, and news for your area
and more of Today
(including Today in the South and West. and Regional Extra for the Midlands and E Anglia) E Anglia VHF: see Variations below
8.40 Today's Papers
by JACK SCHAEFER
Read by BLAIN FAIRMAN (3)
Talking Point: reflecting listeners' queries and comments on wildlife and the countryside. Introduced by DEREK JONES Produced by DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
Questions to Talking Point, The Living World, BBC, Bristol, BS8 2LR.
How necessary are the marriage vows to the people who take them?
Tony van den Bergh talks to clergymen and to counsellors; to those for whom the marriage vows are an essential factor for a happy life together, and to those for whom the same vows are outdated and irrelevant.
NEM p 15: Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 329); Canticle 3: Matthew 22, vv 1-14 (RSV); The Church's one foundation (BBC HB 184)
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conducted by TERENCE LOVETT With BRETT STEVENS
Introduced by JOHN WEBSTER
by IAIN MACKENZIE with Daphne Slater and John Pullen
Ballet dancing and journalism meet by chance in a train on the move.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Burnham, Bucks
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
12.55 Weather, information, and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind theheadlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Noah's Ark by SHIRLEY SCOTT
with the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA led by CELIA SHEEN conducted by MICHAEL MOORES and VALERIE TRYON (piano)
bv Mike Ormond
'FOC means "Father of the Chapel." Funny ain't it, you see its union and that's called the Chapel, and the shop steward is the "Father of the Chapel.'' It all goes back to Guilds or something like that.'
With NORMAN COCKIN, JOSEPH SEELlG, and PAUL HENRY
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH
(from Birmingham)
James Laver , writer and expert on costume, has known many of the more flamboyant figures of the last 50 years.
In this programme he introduces recordings by them, and talks about his friends. Research by ANN MEO
Produced by DENYS GUEROULT
by H. HESKETH PRICHARD abridged for radio by ARTHUR RUSSELL
Reader Norman Smith
1 These chapters are first-class detective work, ingenious and dramatic: but their chief charm is the weight of solid expert knowledge behind them.' So wrote novelist and former Governor-General of Canada John Buchan about H. Hesketh Prichard 's Tales of November Joe - tracker par excellence and backwoods detective extraordinary.
1: The Crime at Big Tree Portage Produced by ROGER PINE
(from Northern Ireland)
The news magazine that sums up your day-and starts off your evening
Including the latest news, the evening press, what's on to-. night, the City. and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by William Hardcastle and Derek Cooper
5.50-6.0 Weather, information, and news for your area
Jimmy Clitheroe - in James - the Modest Hero with PETER SINCLAIR
PATRICIA BURKE , DANNY ROSS DIANA DAY , TONY MELODY
BRIAN TRUEMAN , COLIN EDWYNN
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
Are Critics Necessary!
TONY BILBOW asks GREGORY PECK , DAVID NIVEN , LAURENCE HARVEY , and other screen personalities. ALEXANDER WALKER speaks in their defence.
by Pam Tickell
with Joan Sims
Betty and Graham's acquaintanceship with Amy Kettle begins and ends with a minor road accident; but when you're dealing with Amy Kettle one thing tends to lead to another.
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
with JULIAN MITCHELL
JOHN JULIUS NORWICH reviews The Knight and Chivalry by Richard Barber
ROBIN LANE FOX talks about Alexander the Great in the light of Mary Renault's latest novel Fire from Heaven and an illustrated biography by Peter Green
ANTHONY GREY talks about his experience of two years as a Hostage in Peking and other new books including Deliverance, a novel of adventure, violence, and inner discovery by the American poet James Dickey
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON † (Repeated: Thursday, 3.45 pm)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
DR ARCHIE CLOW interviews some of the scientists who have put forward their ideas at the Annual Meeting of the British Association in Durham.
Produced by LAURIE JOHN †
The Ghost and Mrs Muir by R. A. DICK
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK (3)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
