6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Mania and John Timpson Deputy editor
ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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 below
8.40 Today's Papers
by JIM CORBETT
Read by DUNCAN CARSE (6)
Ken Sykora , Zena Skinner Gordon Clyde 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 and JACK SINGLETON
The World of Work
5: Working On Your Own
Introduced by BARRY CARMAN
NEM p 50: Firmly I believe and truly (BBC HB 168); Canticle 2; Acts 14, vv 8-26; Father of heaven (BBC HB 290)
French for Beginners
Lesson 6: Le professeur arrive Written by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY (Radiovision)
10,45 Interlude
1&.47 Nous voici!
5: Une désagréable surprise Written by MICHEL DE LANTIVY (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together
Introduced by JOHN HUW DAVIES Produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Springboard: At the Zoo Script by EDWARD BLISHEN
11.40 Drama Workshop 5: Pattern Breaking
Written by CHARLES SAVAGE and ALAN PENN
Presented by PETER PACEY
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Money - earning, saving, and spending it
The cost of living index: who compiles it and can we believe it? WILLIAM DAVIS , financial expert and Editor of Punch, helps to provide the answers. Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
South West VHF: see Variations, cot 2
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by David Jessel
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: Matthew's cars by DINAR ROWBURY
The Earth is Green
2: The Border Forest
Script by ALAN C. JENKINS (Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
2.30 Making Your Name
'A Certificate for Life-Saving': short story by SID CHAPLIN (Speak)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 for the 9-11-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS
The Rainmaker by N. RICHARD NASH
Plague of Life or The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant by One Who has been ' almost worried to death '
A Victorian novel by THE BROTHERS MAYHEW abridged for radio in six parts by BRIAN MORRIS
Reader DAPHNE OXENFORD
Music composed and played by TREVOR HOLROYD Part 6
Produced by ALAN AYCKBOURN
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 Regional news, weather and programme news
Written by ERIC MERRIMAN Knee-to-nose comedy starring Ronnie Corbett supported by HUGH PADDICK
JOSEPHINE TEWSON. GORDON CLYDE On the musical side: THE PATTERSONS and KEN MOULE AND HIS ORCHESTRA Produced by JOHN BROWELL
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
John Hosken presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR chaHenge ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair JACK LONGLAND i
! A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge
Resident Panel
NAN WINTON , TED MOULT NEIL DURDEN-SMITH V
A team representing Hastings Question-master ALUN WILLIAMS Questions set and programme produced by MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS from White Rock Pavilion (Lower Hall), Hastings
The Servant
HAROLD PINTER 'S screenplay from the novel by ROBIN MAUGHAM adapted for radio by GUY VAESEN ' I'm all alone - at the moment - and so I'll be needing a manservant, you see. I have seen a few chaps, but they didn'seem very suitable to me. somehow. What - you've had experience at this - kind of work? '
Produced by GUY VAESEN
(Donald Pleasence is in ' Tea Party' and 'The Basement' at the Duchess Theatre. London) (Getting The Servant to work on Radio: p 4. See also Radio 3, Thursday. 10.0 pm)
The second of six programmes surveying different aspects of the many changes taking place in the British Theatre. 2: Changes in Acting
Harold Hobson talks to
JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
The News
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Following a recent visit to Poland, JUDITH LISTOWEL looks at that country's fears over the Moscow-Bonn agreement,
Here Keller - Train This by GEORGE KELLER
Read by DAVID HEALY (3)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends