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 Manio and John Timpson
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.58-8.0 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
An Act of Worship introduced by RALPH ROLLS
With CLIFF MORGAN
Sometimes familiar, sometimes new
Produced by DAVID ALLAN
Music Workshop 1
Written by DOUGLAS COOMBES
NEM p 64; The Lord of heaven confess (BBC HB 478); Psalm 119, part 1; Acts 15, v 36, to 16, v 5; God's law is perfect (BBC HB 456)
Voix de France
5: Apres Sartre, quoi?
Compiled and presented by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE (Sixth-form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
5: Fireworks. (This programme should be tape-recorded)
A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life. Thursday's Child
Eartha Kitt talks and sings about how she rose from cotton pickin' in South Carolina to cabaret in Paris.
Produced by ANNE CATCHPOLE
People in Their Places
MAUREEN DUFFY presents poems by R. S. Thomas , Harri Webb , Theodore Roethke , Stewart Conn , Maurice Lindsay : and the short story ' Bank Holiday by Katherine Mansfield
(Listening and Writing) f
11.40 Prospect
AD 2000: Good health
Compiled by PAUL VAUGHAN
12.0 Announcements
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Own Time
Rambling for fun: one of the oldest leisure pursuits still retains a lively appeal. TIM MATTHEWS mingles with the ramblers of today.
South West VHF: see Variations, col 2
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Meg's Saturday Morning by JOYCE CRABTREE
The Emily Jane Puffer by JESSIE ANDERSON (Let's Join In)
2.20 Seen Doing
KEITH KENNEDY sent seven young people out with cameras to test the idea that a person is seen at his most individual when doing some action characteristic of him. They discuss the results. (Art and Design)
2.48 The Greek Legend of Persephone retold by PATRICK DUGGAN (Stories and Rhymes)
From the Sixties: The Quarter-million Boys A Sentimental Journey to a Dead City by BLOKE MODISANE
The story of a man who is too black to be white and too educated to be black.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX A selection of the best 60-minute plays broadcast during the last decade.
A radio correspondence column
The story by SLAVOMIR RAWICZ abridged in eight parts by ERIC TWINAME
Read by TFrank Duncan
During the Second World War a Polish officer and six companions escape from a Russian prison camp in Siberia. In an amazing feat of endurance they walk 4,000 miles to freedom.
1: Sent to Siberia
Produced by PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)
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 Regional news, weather and programme news
First Round
5: West of England
Bishop Blackall School, Exeter (Girls) v
The Grammar School, Bristol (Boys)
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
John Hosken presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
Chosen from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and TV during the past seven days. Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Editor NANCY WISE
Research JEAN STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Shortened version: Saturday,
4.30 pm)
A spontaneous discussion by DENNIS POTTER
CAMPBELL ADAMSON ANTONY HOPKINS
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from The Secondary Modern School, Monmouth
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answerst should be sent to Any
Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Cardinal Suenens in conversation with ROBERT KEE
The (Roman Catholic Primate of Belgium is an outspoken critic of the manner in which Rome's authority is exercised. He discusses with Robert Kee the crisis of authority in the Church in particular and in society in general.
What is wanted is to liberate everyone, even the Holy Father himself, from the System which has been the subject of complaint for several centuries .. . No series of problems today can be simply resolved by the decree of authority Produced by DAVID WILLEY
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A programme in which a foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week f
Here Keller - Train This by GEORGE KELLER abridged by MARGARET HOLMES Read by DAVID HEALY
Produced by JOHN CARDY
(Monday: part 1 of ' Mist Over Pendle ' by Robert Neill , read by Ronald Harvi )
Doug Fisher , David Jason and Frank Abbott look back at the week's newt and illustrate the funny side Script by PETER SPENCE
Produced by SIMON BRETT and DAVID HATCH
All the day's news preceded by Weather
