1.27 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 Sixth Test at Adelaide, introduced by Jack de Manio, Douglas Cameron
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 clive CUNNINGHAM VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
Contributed bv the BBC'S Foreign News Staff
Religious Service for Primary Schools
The Great Adventure 4: Prisoner
'Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9-55 Movement and Music 2 by JAMES DODDING
The presentation of Christ
NEM p 15; A great and mighty wonder (BBC hb 41); Psalm 111; Luke 2, vv 22-40 (JB); 0 thou not made with hands (BBC HB 180)
Marsh!
14: Holidays in the South Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Karneval in Köln Written by A. A. WOLFF
(Intermediate German)
11.0 Movement and Music 1 for the 5-6-year-olds by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.26 Come to the fair
Presented by GARY TAYLOR (Music Club)
11.40 Laughing down there in the Dark: third of a trilogy of plays by R. E. T. LAMB
The action takes place in Brazil where some freelance miners are involved in a mine disaster.
Produced by RICHARD WORTLEY
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Home and Family
Parent Power: an enquiry by MAUREEN O'CONNOR.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA; or phone [number removed], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: cot 1
A panel game controlled (?) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud and Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm) (Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Tippy to the rescue! by JEAN ENGLISH
The Trial and Execution of Charles I
Written by HENRY MARSHALL (World History)
2.20 Music Session
Folk Around the World - 4
Script by CATHERINE BAXTER
2.40 Egypt by DESMOND STEWART (Geography)
by GEORGE ELIOT : adapted as a serial in 12 parts by HOWARD AGG with Angela Pleasence , Martin Jarvis Megs Jenkins and Anthony Bate 6: The Vow
The sale of the house furniture was over and the bills were out for the sale of the mill and the land. The miller, unaware of the lapse of time, fancied himself still in that first stage of his misfortunes when expedients might be thought of. Produced by JANE GRAHAM
A series of plays written by ANTHONY SCOTT VEITCH featuring William Gaunt with Tom Watson as Major Duncan Geddes and Olive Milbourne as Mrs Mary Pybus The Running Man
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Members of the Newmarket and District Horticultural Society put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL Question-master
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Produced by KENNETH FORD
Another series of tales concerning ships and seamen, and the mysteries which surround them.
Written by VINCENT BROME 2: The Ship that Blew Up Reader RONALD HARVI
Produced by HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)
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
Written and adapted for radio from their television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS The Bishop Sees a Ghost starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon
William Mervyn as the Bishop Derek Nimmo as the Bishop's Chaplain
John Barron as the Dean with GERALD CROSS as the Ghost RONALD FORFAR as Scamm and this week's guest: Joan Sanderson as Mrs Pugh Critchley
Produced by DAVID HATCH (Repeated: Wed. 12.25 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
[number removed]
As Apollo 14 approaches the Moon, ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Sir Bernard Lovell , Director of Jodrell Bank, the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, on the subject of space exploration.
To promote a maximum flow questions, [number removed](12 lines) will take them from 6.30 pm onward as well as while the programme is on the air.
Produced by WALTER WALLICH
Written and introduced by PHILIP OAKES
Throughout his career Tony Hancock was a perfectionist, searching for some indefinable and unattainable peak of ' pure ' comedy. It was a search which brought him both triumph and disaster. He was still searching when he died tragically in Australia in June 1968. with contributions from
RALPH READER, BERYL VERTUE SYLVIA SYMS , SID JAMES
DUNCAN WOOD, MICHAEL WALE
RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON Research and interviews by RITA DANDO
Produced by MICHELL RAPER
The Arts have leapt off the particular track they were on, on to heaven knows what other
Bernard Levin sets out to discover why the performing arts leapt off that track, and to examine the place of tradition in the arts today in discussion with Colin Davis, Glenda Jackson and Peter Hall
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A Stoic by JOHN GALSWORTHY
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (2)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends