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.* 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 (7)
BBC Correspondents talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
(Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast)
Siobhan McKenna presents a selection of the poetry, prose, and plays of her favourite Irish writers to an invited audience in London. Produced by HELEN FRY
NEM p 33; 0 Lord our God, arise! (BBC HB 25); Psalm 20; Matthew 24, vv 29-44 (RSV); The head that once was crowned with thorns (BBC HB 132)
presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest PATRICIA LAMBERT BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by EDDIE FRASER
by DEREK WALKER
' When you think what theatres are for. it's no wonder they harbour ghosts. Aren'you frightened, here all alone? '
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
WALTER TAPLIN 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]. South West VHF: see Variations, cot 1
A panel game controlled (?) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo Clement Freud , Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm) (Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: A holiday for Jeremy and Flash by WINIFRED DORAN
with the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEOFFREY BRAND and DEREK HAMMOND-STROUD (baritone)
by ANTONIA RIDGE
Jean-Baptiste Lully really existed - he was a famous French 17th-century composer. But this is an episode from his early life, in which fact and fancy combine ...
With SEAN BARRETT
RONALD FORFAR, JOHN RYE
Produced by RAY MILES
(Repeated: Friday, 7.30 pm)
A series of four inventions based on well-known themes of literature or history. Next week: ' Virtuoso,' a reconstruction of the life of Samuel Pepys in the troubled year 1665, by A. R. Rawlinson.
The Lobo case has now escalated into murder and the trail leads to a country house.
3: Murder at Morden Lodge
Gardening enthusiasts in the workshops of the National League of Blind Disabled Gardeners at Cosham, Portsmouth
A weekly series of seven first-hand accounts, from the 16th century to the 20th, edited by FRANCESCA M. WILSON
4: William Richardson (1768-72) Reader CLIFFORD NORGATE
Produced by TERENCE TILLER
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
5.50-6.0 Weather, information and news for your area
ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , 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 in Bringing the House Down with NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY , JOHN GRAHAM Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
originally broadcast to commemorate the 25th anniversary of The Battle of Britain
Written by JOHN PUDNEY with recordings made at the time of the Battle or soon afterwards including the voices of: RT HON WINSTON CHURCHILL LORD BEAVERBROOK
AIR CHIEF MARSHAL
SIR HUGH DOWDING
SIR ROBERT WATSON-WATT SQUADRON LEADER RONALD ADAM
SQUADRON LEADER J. R. A. PEEL FLIGHT-LIEUT J. B. NICOLSON
FLIGHT-LIEUT J. W. C. SIMPSON PILOT OFFICER R. H. HILLARY
SERGEANT-PILOT D. E. KINGABY ASSISTANT SECTION OFFICER FELICITY HANBURY
RAYMOND GLENDENNING
CHARLES GARDNER , ALVAR LIDELL MISS NANCY SPENDER MR J. M. BROOKS
MR FRED GRIFFITHS
(continued in next column)
Special music composed by ALAN PAUL
Narrators NOEL JOHNSON , PHILIP GUARD with OLIVE GREGG, GEOFFREY LEWIS and PETER CLAUGHTON
THE NEW RADIO ORCHESTRA leader JULIEN GAILLARD conducted by ALAN PAUL
Produced by VERNON HARRIS
Excerpts from John Pudney 's poems taken from his Collected Poems, published by Putnams
A discussion about how to live with the new freedoms between three people who, on the whole, welcome them:
Dr Helena Wright, octogenarian author of Sex and Society: a New Code of Sexual Behaviour; The Rev David Collyer, Youth Chaplain to the Bishop of Birmingham;
Alec Dickson, Director of Community Service Volunteers
with a preface from three who deplore some of them: Mary Whitehouse, S.E. Ellison
Introduced by Anthony Howard
Produced by RICHARD KEEN
followed by an interlude
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world"
2: The awful adventure of eating out
The average Briton eats out fewer than three times a year, and when he does the experience can be traumatic.
Why do we feel this national embarrassment about hotels and restaurants? DEREK COOPER asks: is the fault with us or with them?
The Ghost and Mrs Muir by R. A. DICK
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK (7)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
