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 on the Fifth (Extra) Test at Melbourne, 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 ) VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
Religious Service for Primary Schools
9.25 Where do Babies come fromr by MARGARET SHEFFIELD The first of two sex-education radiovision programmes, suitable for children aged 8 and 9 (Nature)
9.40 Interlude
S 45 The Penny Programme - 4 Presented by STUART HENRY and PETER PACEY
Written by ALEXANDER GUYAN 9 55 Movement and Music
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
NEM p 96; We come unto our fathers' God (BBC hb 255): Psalm 29; Acts 10. vv 34-48 (NEB); Thy kingdom come! (BBC HB 28)
Archibald Mclndoe by PADDY FEENY
(Christian Focus)
10.50 Moment of Truth
How much land does a man require? by LEO TOLSTOY dramatised by DAVID GRANT (Material for Assembly)
11.0 Time and Tune Hassebu - 12
The First Charm
Script by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Man the Inventor by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrated by BARRY FOSTER (Man series)
11.40 London: Lea Valley Compiled by PETER MUNN
(Geography)
Ken Sykora presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
Is the menopause really a menace? JOAN YORKE reports.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see col 2
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
D1LYS 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
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Pippa the hippopotamus by BETTY BEVAN : part 2
A Good Sixpenn'orth by BILL NAUGHTON adapted by JOAN GRIFFITHS (Living Language)
2.20 Poetry Corner
Who likes what I like?
2.30 Unos minutos nada más 2: La chica y el coche
Written by ROBERT P. CLARKE
(For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
2.40 Learning about Life Sexual Feelings
Written and introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
by JOHN BUCHAN : adapted for radio by LINDA POLAN
An adventure story set in 17th-century Virginia.
7: Garvald the Man
Produced by JAMES DUCKETT (from Birmingham)
(Miriam Margolyes is in ' Fiddler On the Roof ' at the King's Theatre, Glasgow)
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
6.35 Science 2 Patterns and Perception
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O KEEFFE
Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
Produced by ROY HAYW ARD (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
A series on famous
French criminal trials by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
1: A Pretty Liar - the case of Madame Steinheil
Madame Steinheil 's husband and her mother were found murdered in June 1908. Was she responsible for their death. and why? Rayner Heppenstall discusses the still unsolved mystery behind one of the most bizarre murder trials of French legal history.
Trouard-Riolle.FREDERICK TREVES Foreman of Jury....PATRICK TULL Produced by MARIN ESSLIN
Irene Worth talks to CHARLES LEFEAUX about her life in the theatre and discusses with him some of the plays in which she has appeared on radio.
Meet the people whose research, discoveries, and inventions are changing our way of life and our understanding of the world around us.
Presenter PAUL VAUGHAN
Produced by ALISTAIR BROWN
David Holden reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Invitation to the Waltz by ROSAMOND LEHMANN Read by BARBARA LEIGH HUNT (4)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends