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
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES
E Anglia VHF: see Variations, col 5
8.40 Today's Papers
by JIM CORBETT
Read by DUNCAN CARSE (3) †
(Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
HistoryinEvidence
Roman Britain - 5: written by BRENDA RALPH LEWIS
9.45 Music Workshop 2
Written by WILLIAM MURPHY
NEM p 37; Jesu, thy mercies are untold (BBC HB 324); Psalm 98; Isaiah 35, vv 1-10 (RSV); Happy are they (BBC HB 274)
La France Aujourd'hui 5: Toujours de service Written by ARIEL DAIGRE
Produced by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY †
10.45 Foreign Correspondent
Each week, an examination in depth of a major and current issue in international affairs.
Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR
11.0 Inquiry
Unit 1: Self and Others 5: Taking Action
Written by FRED HOOPER
11.20 Discovery
The Unseen World
2: Fleming discovers Penicillin by JO MANTON
11.40 Contemporary History 5: Munich
Compiled by PHILIP HOLLAND
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Today's main feature: Your Rights and Responsibilities
The Welfare Rights Stall: JOHN STOCKBRIDGE reports on what is being done in one London borough to encourage people to claim benefits which may be due to them.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
South West VHF: see Variations, col 5
Adapted from his TV series by Richard Waring, starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner and Francis Matthews as Henry Corner, with Charlotte Mitchell as Mary
Christening a fourth child shouldn't really provide any problems, but for Jennifer and Henry it becomes a traumatic experience - until Mother-in-Law intervenes. Then it becomes wild, man, wild!
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Rupert's Bedtime by CATHERINE OLIVER : part 2
Movement, Mime, and Music 1 by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Goodbye to All That by ROBERT GRAVES
Part 2: adapted and produced by ELIZABETH ORNBO
(Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Tracks and Signs by LESLEY GOULD. (.Nature)
by KAY MCMANUS with Ruth Dunning and Susan Richards
Eighty-four seems the wrong age to be thinking of buying a house and moving. But Sara intends to make good use of the time that is left to her.
Produced by JANE GRAHAM
1: Alice Harris
Written by MARY-JEAN HASLER
Alice Harris was 28 when she travelled with her husband to become a missionary in the Congo, then a Belgian colony under the personal rule of King Leopold.
Lady Harris is now 100 years old. This is the story of her work to free the people of Africa from slavery.
Produced by ALAN BURGESS †
Born at the turn - or before the turn - of the century, ' The Women ' help to change the world in which they lived. Later subjects in the series will include Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Daisy Bates , Flora Sandes, and Edith Bone.
by W.E. Bowman abridged for radio in five instalments by Alick Rowe
Man's conquest of mountains has always fired the imagination, and in 1956 W.E. Bowman published his own version of a feat to end all mountaineering feats - Rum Doodle in Yogistan, towering an estimated 10,9711 feet above Everest!
(from Manchester)
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 Derek Cooper
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Problems from listeners' letters discussed by RENEE HOUSTON, ANNE EDWARDS ANDREE MELLY , NINA FRANCIS In the chair ANONA WINN Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Produced byCHRISTOPHERSERLE (Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
on behalf of the Liberal Party RUSSELL JOHNSTON, MP
by Rhys Adrian
with Pauline Collins as The Girl
Ian Richardson as The Man
Geoffrey Collins as A Student
Scene: A flat in Chelsea
Time: Very much the present
This play, originally broadcast in the Third Programme in 1969, received the Premio della Radiotelevisione Italiana at the Italia Prize Awards in Florence on 22 September 1970. (Ian Richardson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co) (Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
("I will love you always, always," a new play by Rhys Adrian: 30 October, Radio 3)
with MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
J. w. LAMBERT on Last Things, the final volume of C. P. Snow's saga Strangers and Brothers LORNA PEGRAM talks about her new novel A Game of Patience and reviews Zelda Fitzgerald , Nancy Milford's biography of Scott Fitzgerald 's wife
RICHARD MAYNE considers J. B. Priestley in the light of his new book on The Edtcardians and Susan Cooper 's J. B. Priestley : portrait of an author and other new books, including Will Pickles of Wcnsleydale, John Pemberton 's sketch of a remarkable country doctor
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON (Repeated: Thursday, 3.40 pm) (C. P. Snow in The Arts This Week: tomorrow at 8.35 pm, Radio 3)
A topical talk by a professional broadcaster René Cutforth.... Robert Kee ...
Ian Melntyre ...
Gerald Priestland ...
(Repeated: Sunday, 6.45 pm)
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
3: Race and Colour: can the tension be contained?
The BBC's East Africa correspondent PETER STEWART investigates.
Oh, My Darling Daughter by ERIC MALPASS abridged by ELISABETH ROWLEY Read by PRUNELLA SCALES Produced by JOHN CARDY
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
