S.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, 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
Service for Primary Schools
Archive recordings introduced by TERRY GOMPERTZ †
The Bible: How and Why by ROBERT C. WALTON
6: How the Gospels were written (ii)
S.55 Movement and Music 1
NEM p 83; 0 word- of God incarnate (BBC HB 191); Psalm 50; Acts 17, vv 1-15; Spread, o spread, thou mighty word (BBC HB 182)
Written by H.R. Garten
(Deutsch fur die Oberstufe)
BBC Sound Archive recordings
Time and Tune
6: Here come the mice warriors!
Presented by JOHN CAMBURN Written by JOHN EDWARDS
11.20 Mammals by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrated by BARRY FOSTER (Man series)
11.40 The Trent Valley by ROBERT REID. (Geography)
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare What's in a Mixture? A doctor and a chemist discuss whether medicines should be fully labelled.
Other topical items, too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
South West VHF: see Variations, col 5
A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and John Wells
In the chair Jack Longland
(Repeated: Monday, 7.30 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Tales of Joe and Timothy: ' Remember, remember by DOROTHY EDWARDS
The Pilgrim's Progress by JOHN BUNYAN adapted by SAM LANGDON
Produced by joan Griffiths 1: The Wicket Gate
(Living Language)
2.20 Poetry Corner
Please to remember
2.30 Unos minutos nada mds
6: El primer dia de trabajo de Manuel
Written by ROBERT P. CLARKE
(For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
2.40 Learning about Life 6: Who needs friends? Introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
by DAVID HOPKINS
Two devoted cinema fans have the chance of a lifetime - to entertain a world-famous star at their home.
by H. G. WELLS abridged in ten parts by HOWARD JONES
Read by DAVID DAVIS
6: The Little Shop at Fishbourne
Against all his deepest instincts Mr Polly has married Miriam. With his legacy he has set up shop as a gentleman's outfitter.
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
A panel game controlled (?) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo Clement Freud , Andrew Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Produced by SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Adrian Porter 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 ROY HAYWARD (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Other people's babies, that's my life,
Mother to dozens and nobody's wife.
Sir Alan Herbert 's lyric has a sub-title-A Song of Kensingtion Gardens - which places it in time and space - and class, for full-time servants began in the middle classes. Now of course the Nanny who sat by the year has been all but replaced by the baby-sitter who sits by the hour. In even earlier days they sat by the lifetime - their memories as trustworthy as the fly-leaf of the family Bible.
A light-hearted look in fact and fiction at the English Nanny by ERIC EWENS
Produced by MAURICE LEITCH
A series about love: how some people give and receive love in their lives
I think the answer is love
A family of. mother, father, and three daughters recall the time when the eldest daughter became hooked on hard drugs at the age of 19. They tell LESLIE SMITH how they came through this crisis, only to meet with another. Each member of this family speaks about their own part in these events. Produced by RALPH ROLLS
Discoveries, inventions, and news from the world of science and technology.
Each week PAUL VAUGHAN introduces you to the people whose achievements are changing your way of life.
Produced by LAURIE JOHN
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Mist Over Pendle by ROBERT NEILL
Read by RONALD HARVI (4) †
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
