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
Written and read by JANET HITCHMAN (9) f
Religious Service for Primary Schools
Archive recordings introduced by TERRY GOMPERTZ
The Bible: How and Why
2: People in the Gospels (i)
9.55 Movement and Music I
NEM p 83; 0 Word of God incarnate (BBC HB 191); Psalm 33 v 1-12; Matthew 27, v 62, to 28, v 8 (RSV); Father of mercies, in thy word (BBC hb 189)
Alltagsdeutsch by Stephen Kanocz
(Deutsch fur die Oberstufe series)
BBC Sound Archive recordings
Time and Tune
2: Grandpa Drosselmeyer entertains
Written by JOHN EDWARDS
Presented by JOHN CAMBURN
11.20 Life in the Sea by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrated by BARRY FOSTER (Man series)
11.40 Norfolk Broads - Bure Valley by HUGH BARRETT (Geography)
MONTY MODLYN draws back the mysterious curtain that veils the shadowy world of clairvoyants and palmists. He talks to people involved in predicting the future and tries to discover the secrets of the crystal ball. Produced by RICHARD GILBERT South West VHF: see Variations, col
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by David Jessel
Story: The little car crosses the sea by LEILA BERG
The House of Donkeys
A verse play by TED HUGHES based on a Chinese folk tale (Living Language series)
2.20 Poetry Corner. Which and Where and Why and When
2.30 Unos minutos nada mas 2: El boicot
Written by ROBERT p. CLARKE (For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
2.40 Learning about Life 2: Others
Introduced by JOHN STOCKBniDGEt
by H. G. WELLS abridged in ten parts by HOWARD JONES
Read by David Davis
Everything little Mr Polly undertakes seems to fail - his marriage, his business, his whole existence. How in the end he discovers himself and attains happiness, is related by H. G. Wells with great sympathy and humour.
1: Beginnings and the Bazaar
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 Derek Cooper
5.50-6.0 Weather, information and news for your area
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
A radio correspondence column Introduced by DAVID JACOBS (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
John Dryden
Poet Laureate 1668-1689 A cool examination by TERENCE TILLER
Denis Goacher as Narrator Norman Shelley as John Dryden (' Bayes
Others taking part JUDITH BOYD GERALD CROSS, RICHARD GRIFFITHS EDWARD KELSEY , GODFREY KENTON JOHN RYE, JAMES THOMASON
Produced by TERENCE TILLER Engraving after Kneller
Jonathan Miller , with the help of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives, looks at the changes that have taken place in the styles of humour over the last 40 years.
In this second programme he pays special attention to the use of Radio as a medium for humour.
Research by ANN MEO
Produced by DAVID ALLAN
Discoveries, inventions, and news from the world of science and technology.
Each week Paul Vaughan brings you the people whose achievements are changing your way of life.
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
WILFRED DE'ATH. surfacing from his exploration of the English Underground, examines ways in which young people become involved in the community through voluntary service. Tonight he talks to
LAWRENCE BAILEY , Chairman of the Birmingham Young Volunteers Trust
The House by the River by A. P. HERBERT
Read by NOEL JOHNSON (9)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends