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 Manto 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 )
VHF East Anglia: see column 5
8.40 Today's Papers
by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Read by MICHAEL KILGARRIFF (12) T
Talking Point
Andrew Cruickshank
on the Feast of the Epiphany from the Parish Church of St James, Piccadilly, London
Celebrant THE REV PETER FIRTH assisted by members of the staff of the BBC including a section of the BBC CHORUS
Preacher THE REV JOHN LANG Epistle: Ephesians 3, vv 1-12 Gospel: Matthew 2, vv 1-12
Epiphany Carol (Williamson)
Go into all the world (Gardner) Once, only once (Parsonage)
Fight the good fight (Gardner) The Service sung to John Dankworth 's Folk Mass setting for choir and congregation Conductor JOHN POOLE Organist BARRY ROSE
Introduced by Sidney Harrison who invites you to listen to some easily remembered music played by the LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
Mary, Shut Your Gate by SAMUEL SELVON
In Trinidad the children play a game. There's a sensitive nlant-they touch the leaves and chant Mary, Mary shu your gate" and the leaves close. produced by BETTY DAVIES †
(Another play by Samuel Selvon with a West Indian flavour, 'You Right in the Smoke': Friday, 3.0 pm)
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Rights and Responsibilities. The new Divorce Law- 1: RUPERT TOWNSHEND-ROSE talks about the grounds for divorce. Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5
The Bishop Rides Again
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind theheadlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The shiny buttons by JOY TUCKER †
with the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND and DAVID MCCALLUM (Violin)
by Bernard Shaw: adapted for radio by Jack Willis
With Arthur Lowe
"The Suffragettes are a very small body; but they are numerous enough to be troublesome - even dangerous - when they are all concentrated in one place... But by making a two-mile radius and pushing them beyond it, you scatter their attack over a circular line 12 miles long. Just what Wellington would have done."
A second chance to hear Fred Streeter. at 93, telling LESLIE SMITH about a happy life growing flowers and vegetables - and talking to them.
Produced by RALPH ROLLS
Experiences of an Irish
Resident Magistrate by E. a. SOMERVILLE and MARTIN ROSS
3: The Pug-Nosed Foz
'The hounds unanimously charged the glaring monster in the black hood with loud and hysterical cries.'
Reader DENYS HAWTHORNE
Produced by JOHN SCOTNEY (from Northern Ireland)
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 Roger Cook
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Problems from listeners' letters discussed by RENEE HOUSTON, BERYL REID ANDREE MELLY , JEAN ROOK In the chair ANONA WINN Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm) (Beryl Reid is in 'Blithe Spirit' at the Globe Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
Amersham
Boo!by DAVID CAMPTON
We'll start a family one of these days. But first things first. I said first things first.' I heard you, darling.' with the children of Norfolk House School, Birmingham
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
(Repeated: Thurs, 3.0 pm)
With P. J. KAVANAGH
FRANCIS WATSON reviews The Viceroy At Bay, John Glend evon's account of his father's struggle to save India from partition
ROY FULLER talks about the working life of a poet and reads some of his poems in Penguin Poets 18
JULIAN SYMONS on Scotch on the Rocks, a thriller by Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond , published tomorrow
Children's books chosen with book tokens in mind by EDWARD BLISHEN , MARGARET DRABBLE , NAOMI LEWIS
Produced by PATRICIA BRENT and JOCELYN FERGUSON
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.45 pm)
A professional broadcaster talks on a topic which has caught his attention Tonight: Ian McIntyre
(Repeated: Sunday, 6.45 pm)
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deeds not words
SUE MACGREGOR takes a close look at the activities of one Women's Liberation Group and discovers how they put their ideas into practice,
Boomerang by ANDREW GARVE Read by FRANK DUNCAN (3)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
