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, including live reports from the First Test at Brisbane, 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, beluw
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 I
Written by DOUGLAS COOMBES
NEM p 44; Come, gracious Spirit (BBC HB 1501; Psalm 139; Acts 24, vv 1-16; Breathe on me, breath of God (BBC HB 148)
Voix de France
9: Extracts from Le Jeu de I'Amour et du Hasard by Marivaux
Narrative links by ARIEL DAIGRE (Sixth-form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
9: Raindrops (This programme should be tape-recorded)
A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life.
Fleet Street Photographer
Edward ('Lucky') Dean, 50 years in newspapers, including 32 on the Daily Mirror, talks to ROBERT WILLIAMS about his life and scoops.
Produced by SUSAN ERLBECK
Space Hostages by NICHOLAS FISK adapted by YVONNE BRADBURY Part 2: Return to Earth
(Listening and Writing) f
11.40 Prospect
AD 2000: Is God dead?
Compiled by TONY GIBSON
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
The Wrestling Phenomenon: how lucrative? How painful? MONTY MODLYN lifts the lid off one of the most successful spectator sports in the country - especially among women. South West VHF: see col 2
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Winter's come by URSULA HOURIHANE
Preparation for the Nativity Play by MARGARET ROSE (Let's Join In)
2.20 Structure: Buckminster Fuller. How this American architect's thought has ranged from bubbles to geodesic domes. Narrator nigel ANTHONY
Interview by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE Written and produced by JOAN GRIFFITHS
(Art and Design: Radiovision)
2.40 Puss-in-Boots retold by EDWARD BLlSHEN (Stories and Rhymes)
A comedy by LEE TORRANCE with Christopher Bidmead
Telling of a solicitor's clerk, his quest for higher things, and the adventures that befell him by the way.
Produced by ROBERT CUSHMAN
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 FRANK DUNCAN
5: Life among the friendly Mongols
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
Gerald Priestland 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 Richard BURWOOD (Shortened version: Sat, 4.30)
A spontaneous discussion by RT HON
ANTHONY WEDGWOOD BENN , MP
LORD KEARTON, VIC FEATHER
DAME PATRICIA HORNSBY-SMITB , MP Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from Birmingham with an audience from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers* should be sent to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
The Republicans have now governed the United States for two years, and with this month's mid-term elections behind him Mr Nixon enters the second half of his Presidential term.
How is he shaping as President? What sort of men serve under him? And what do Americans think of the record and style of his Administration? From the United States, IAN MCINTYRE reports.
Produced by GEORGE FISCHER
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
Scruffy by PAUL gallico
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK (5)
Doug Fisher , David Jason and Frank Abbott took back at the week's news and illustrate the funny side with SEAN ARNOLD , JOHN GABRIEL Script by PETER SPENCE
Produced by SIMON brett and david HATCH
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
