6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme 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
7.50-8.8 Regional news, weather and programme news
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 RICHARD COMPTON-HALL
Read by MARTIN MUNCASTER 4: A Boatload of Booties
Religious Service for Primary Schools
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Archives recordings introduced by TERRY GOMPERTZ f
The Bible: How and Why
3: People in the Gospels (ii)
9.55 Movement and Music 1
NEM p 102: Behold the amazing gift of love (BBC HB 484); Canticle 10: Isaiah 5, vv 11, 12, 18-25 (rsv); Now the green blade riseth (BBC HB 109)
Grillparzer
(Deutsch fur die Oberstufe series) [RT says 'Oberstaufe' in error]
BBC Sound Archive recordings
Time and Tune
3: Toys and Games
Presented by JOHN CAMBURN Written by JOHN EDWARDS
11.20 Life on the Land by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrated by BARRY FOSTER (Man series)
11.40 North Downs - Pilgrim's Way
Compiled by PHILIP HOLLAND (Geography)
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
The Pangs of Parting: two doctors discuss mothers' reactions to children leaving home.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
South West VHF: see Variations, col 2
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair JACK LONGLAND
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by David Jessel
Story: Jeremy helps Mrs Gray by ELIZABETH ALLISTON
Drummer Delaney's Sixpence by Keith Dewhurst
2.20 Poetry Corner Lets Pretend
2.30 Unos minutos nada mds
3.00 El senor Robinson, turista extraordinario
(For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
2.40 Learning about Life 3: Your Parents
by R. D. WINGFIELD
by H. G. WELLS abridged in ten parts by HOWARD JONES
Read by DAVID DAVIS
2: The Dismissal of Parsons Parsons - one of Mr Polly 's bosom companions at the Port Burdock Drapery Bazaar, where Mr Polly labours as an apprentice in Gents' Outfitting - suddenly gets himself dismissed under circumstances of peculiar violence.
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 Regional news, weather and programme news
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions! Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
At the start of the academic year the spectre of violence and illiberalism hangs over our universities. In other parts of the world the situation is worse: the question is not whether universities can function as places of freedom and enlightenment, but whether they can function at all.
Robert McKenzie , himself a Professor at the London School of Economics, discusses the world-wide threat to academic freedom, and the implications for Britain, with university administrators in the United States and Western Europe. Produced by MARTIN cox
A series of programmes about love and the way people experience it in their lives.
1: David
The mother of an autistic child talks to LESLIE SMITH
Produced by RALPH ROLLS
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.
Produced by LAURIE JOHN
9.58 Weather
Ian Mclntyre reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
How do they fare in 1970? An enquiry by KEN SYKORA 4: Time to Enjoy yourself
Oh, My Darling Daughter by ERIC MALPASS
Read by PRUNELLA SCALES (4)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends