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
7.50-8.0 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 below
8.40 Today's Papers
Scotland's Minstrel
Memories of a great artist recalled by HOWARD LOCKHART and illustrated by his records
In this programme, recorded for the centenary of Sir Harry's birth earlier this year., Howard Lockhart , who produced many of his broadcasts, remembers a man who became a legend in his lifetime and part of Scotland's national heritage. Produced by EDDIE FRASER
Reminiscences by ARTHUR HUTLEY
(BBC Sound Archive recording: 1959)
Human Rights
NEM 83: Lord, thy word abideth (BBC HB 190); Psalm 119, part 6; Acts 28, vv 1-15; God liveth still (BBC HB 513)
Introduced by Sidney Harrison who invites you to listen to some easily remembered music played by the BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA conductor JOHN CAREWE with NIGEL coxe (piano)
by VICTOR CANNING adapted in five parts
4: Away and Back Again
John Edmunds presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
Why dont we take siestas? DONALD NORFOLK explains why he thinks we should adopt the Continental habit of an afternoon nap.
Other topical items, too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
South West VHF: see Variations, col 2
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 (Repeated: Monday, 7.30 pm).
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: Broirn Bear 's ' Helping People' Week: Brown Bear helps Mr Mend-a -shoe by ELIZABETH ROBINSON
With the LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by GEOFFREY BRAND and OWEN BRANNIGAN (bass)
You never think it's you
SALUTE TO ADVENTURERS
by John Buchan
Adapted for radio by Linda Polan
with Ralph Watson as Andrew Garvald
An adventure story by a master of the genre set in 17th-century Scotland and Virginia.
1: First Encounters
Produced by James Duckett (from Birmingham)
(Miriam Margolyes is in ' Fiddler on the Roof ' at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle)
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
5.59-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
Produced by ROY HAYWARD (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn The author of Cancer Ward, The First Circle, and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisotich (an authentic view of life in a Soviet labour camp during the Stalin era - broadcast in September) was formally accused of writing anti-Soviet propaganda and expelled from the Soviet Writers Union three years ago. At present he is living quietly in a cottage 60 miles from Moscow.
Tonight he is to be awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is not vet known whether the Soviet authorities will grant him a visa to go to Stockholm to receive the prize. Written by DAVID BURG and GEORGE FEIFFER Produced by MAURICE LEITCH
The programme is followed by a discussion on some of the implications that it raises. Taking part: STUART HOOD DR TIBOR SZAMUELY and PROFESSOR JOHN ERICKSON
in conversation with BRIAN CONNELL
De Gaulle 's former Secret Service Chief and Deputy Premier, who fell out with his chief over Algeria and spent seven years on the run in exile, is now forming a new left-of-centre political grouping.
Also an internationally known anthropologist, he looks back at the past and at the French political scene today.
Produced by ELIZABETH SMITH
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
The News
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Scruffy by PAUL GALLICO
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK (14)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
