6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
4.50-7.0 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 Manlo and John Timpson
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.58-8.0 Weather, information and news for your area
and more of Today
(including Today in the South and West introduced this week by DEREK JONES , and Regional Extra for the Midlands and E Anglia) E Anglia VHF: see Variations, cot 5
8.40 Today's Papers
by JACK SCHAEFER
Read by BLAIN FAIRMAN (6)
Zena Skinner , Gordon Clyde George Luce and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Produced by SUSAN ERLBECK
DENNIS LOWER, ELIZABETH SMITH
NEM p 29; Christ, above all glory seated (BBC HB 121); Canticle 8: Matthew 24, vv 14-28 (RSV): Ye boundless realms of joy (BBC HB 483)
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GIJSBERT NIEUWLAND
With ROSEMARY BRETT DAVIES and marie COOPER (two pianos) Introduced by JOHN WEBSTER
or Tail of a Thought by DENISE ROBERTSON is about a boy's life from childhood to marriage, a life in which he never has a chance to think for himself. Narrator GEOFFREY BANKS
Other parts DAPHNE OXENFORD )
JOHN MCGREGOR , HEATHER STONEY ELISABETH SLADEN
Music by TREVOR HOLROYD
Produced by ALAN AYCKBOURN (from Leeds)
A series in which great short stores (sometimes abridged) are read by leading artists . 9: Brooksmith by HENRY JAMES
Read bv Carleton Hobbs
Produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL (Shortened version of the broadcast in 1966: Third)
South West VHF: see Variations, col 5
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by David Jessel
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
for children under 5
Story: Three baby pigs go to see the world by WINIFRED DORAN
with the BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader BARRY WILDE conductor JOHN CAREWE and DEREK HAMMOND-STROUD (baritone)
(Derek Hammond-Stroud , who sings each day this week, broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera)
by ALMA CULLEN with Katherine Parr as Elspeth Nicholls
We can make this programme the best of the series, Charlie .. the middle-class dream realised. Brilliant father, brilliant children: elegant, tender, charming mother. The sort of success we can all identify with.' Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
The novel by MARK TWAIN abridged in eight parts and read by MARVIN KANE
8: Death to the Republic
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 tonight, the City, and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by David Jessel and Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Weather, information and news for your area
A lighthearted look at life in which Al airs the views of the silent majority on the subject of Communications
Vocal reflections by JULIE ROGERS
Musical illustrations by GEOFF ALDERSON
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Written by RONNIE TAYLOR
Produced by JOHN BROWELL
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
from the novel
Inspector West Cries Wolf by JOHN CREASEY dramatised as a serial in six parts by MAURICE TRAVERS with Patrick Allen as Chief Inspector Roger West
Sarah Lawson as his wife Janet The Lobo case has now escalated into murder and the trail leads to a country house.
3: Murder at Morden Lodge
Produced by JOHN BROWELL
by HEINRICH VON KLEIST with John Westbrook
Anna Cropper. William Fox and Norman Shelley
Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) is one of the great names of German dramatic literature. Prince Frederick von Homburg is considered his masterpiece.
The play relates an episode from Prussian history: at the battle of Fehrbellin (1675) the Prince of Homburg, commanding the cavalry, gains victory in defiance of his orders. Is he to be treated as a hero or as a criminal?
Other parts MADI HEDD JO MANNING WILSON
MARGARET WOLFIT , SEAN BARRETT GERALD CROSS, RONALD FORFAR KERRY FRANCIS. NIGEL LAMBERT
CLIFFORD NORGATE , ANDREW SACHS and PATRICK TULL
Translated from the German, adapted forradio and produced by MARTIN ESSI.IN followed by an interlude
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
1: Just like Mother makes it
How is a modern mum pressured by commercial advertising? Does she really know how to cook, or is she just a compulsive tin-opener?
DEREK COOPER takes the lid off the British housewife,
by R. A. DICK
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK (6)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
