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 Mania 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
Religious Service for Primary Schools
Archive recordings introduced by TERRY GOMPERTZ
The Bible: How and Why by ROBERT C. WALTON
10: Is the Bible true? (ii)
9.55 Movement and Music 1
NEM p 61: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30); Psalm 145, vv 1-13; Acts 25, v 23 to 26, v 8; Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27)
by Friedrich Durrenmatt, adapted by H.F. Garetn
(Deutsch fur die Oberstufe)
BBC Sound Archive recordings
Time and Tune
10: The Nutcracker Concert Presented by JOHN CAMBURN Written by JOHN EDWARDS Edited and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Life of the Cavemen bv MARGERY MORRIS
Narrated by BARRY FOSTER Produced by DAVID LYTTLE (Man series)
11.40 North-West Highlands: Tarbert by ALEX HUNTER (Geography)
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
Do we overfeed our babies?: DR PHYLLIS MORTIMER , who feels that many mothers give too much of the wrong foods to small babies, discusses her ideas with MRS AMY BYRNE , a health visitor.
Other topical items, too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your'Mind?
South West VHF: see col 5
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair JACK LONGLAND
12.55 Weather; information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Kipper the Kittycat and Old Mrs Fizzle-Fazzle by CHRISTINE REES
Pictures in Windows
Bible stories in medieval stained glass: arranged and produced by JOAN GRIFFITHS (Living Language: radiovision)
2.20 Poetry Corner
Let's hear it again
2.30 Unas minutos nada mas
10: El aprendiz de ladrón (ii) Written bv RORERT P. CLARKE
Produced by RAVMOND ESCOFFEY (For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
2.40 Learning about Life 10: On Your Own
Arranged and introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
by H. G. WELLS : abridged in ten parts by HOWARD JONES Read by DAVID DAVIS
As Uncle Jim's prison sentence drew to an end Mr Polly 's anxiety increased. In the end he bought a rifle against the day when Uncle Jim should reappear.
10: Miriam Revisited
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
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 and Jacqueline MacKenzie try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Produced by DAVID HATCH
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL OKEEFFE
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to views expressed in last Fridays Any Questionsr Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
Produced by ROY HAYWARD (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
baptised 17 December 1770: died 26 March 1827 A radio portrait
He dwelt alone because he found no second self. Yet to the end his heart beat for all mankind ... Thus he was, thus he died, thus he will live till the end of time - From an oration delivered at Beethoven's graveside. with Joss Ackland as Beethoven Others taking part
BETTY BASKCOMB. SARA COWARD MARTIN FRIEND, JOHN GABRIEL
BRIAN HEWLETT. NIGEL LAMBERT JO MANNING WILSON
JOHN RYE , JAMES THOMASON
The programme compiled and introduced by JULIAN BUDDEN
Produced by HALLAM TENNYSON (Discovering Beethoven: p 15)
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Scruffy by PAUL GALLICO
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK (9)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends