6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.58-7.0 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 and John Timpson
7.4(1 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 col 5
8.41 Today's Papers
' Winter Birdsong,' ' The Portuguese Man-o-War' and ' Bird-watching ' - that's what listeners heard when they ' tuned in ' to the first edition of The Naturalist on 3 January 1946. Some hundreds of radio and television programmes later, ANTHONY SMITH looks at the way wildlife broadcasting has developed over the quarter-century.
Produced by DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol) , (Shortened version of Sunday s broadcast)
History in Evidence Medieval Britain
4: The Black Death
Written by MICHAEL SMEE
9.45 Music Workshop 2
Produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
NEM p 29: Christ the Lord is risen again (BBC HB 101); Psalm 57; Jeremiah 18. vv 1-11 (jb); Think, 0 Lord, in mercy (BBC HB 449)
Horizons de France
4: Un chauffeur de taxi
Written by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE (Fifth-year French)
10.45 Foreign Correspondent
Each week, an examination in depth of a major and current issue in international affairs. Despatches from BBC correspondents around the world are followed by comment, discussion, and interpretation by experts in London.
Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR
11.0 Inquiry
4: A Divided World
Written by ROISIN MCAULEY
(for the 15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery: Measurement 1: Time, by ARTHUR VIALLS
Presented by RICHARD BEBB 11 40 Contemporary History 4: Early Space Flight
Introduced by ALAN EREIRA
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Rights and Responsibilities. House Improvement Grants: NANCY WISE finds oyt what financial help you are entitled to and how to get it. Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see col 5
Written and adapted for radio from their television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS The Bishop Sees a Ghost starring Robertson Hart 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 1
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Stuck by JEAN ENGLISH
Movement, Mime, and Music 1 for the 7-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 The Male Animal by JAMES THURBER and ELLIOTT NUGENT - 1
Produced by DAVID LYTTLE (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Surviving in Space by LESLEY GOULD. (Nature)
by MALCOLM HAZELL
The Aspentree Cup is the ultimate reward for the successful village football team, but Sleeton Rovers seem destined never to get it - until the arrival of a retired top professional footballer. The result? A mixed blessing , , ,
Produced by BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)
Judi Dench and Edward Woodward in an anthology of poems and letters on the delights and trials of travel
Compiled by JUDI DENCH Produced by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(Judi Dench is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company: Edward Woodward is a National Theatre player)
by Wolf Mankowitz: abridged in 4 episodes by Marjorie Bilbow
The Storyteller is Joe Melia
'The Almighty gave the unicorn a magic horn which could grant anybody's wish,' Mr Kandinsky told Joe. 'But because of this very gift unicorns became so scarce you won't even find one in the zoo.'
The news magazine that sums up your day-and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Problems from listeners' letters discussed by RENEE HOUSTON , EVELYN HOME JACQUELINE MACKENZIE CAROL BINSTED
In the chair ANONA WINN Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
Gerald Prlestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Geilo in Norway to look at the winter sports scene Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD
by PETER RUSSELL with Bernard Brown and Penelope Lee
' He's a very frail old gentleman and being rich - well you know what people are like ... A series of anonymous letters. Nasty. The fact is he'd be happier, and so would we, if there was a strong, capable fellow such as yourself hovering in the background.'
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: Thursday. 3.0 pm)
With RONALD EYRE
News of books and writers including
A Spy for God, the tragedy of a possibly good SS officer, by Pierre Joffroy
JOHN WAIN on George Orwell In the light of his Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, now in paperback
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON (Repeated: Thursday, 3.45 pm)
A professional broadcaster talks on a topic which has caught his attention,
Tonight: Gerald Priestland
(Repeated: Sunday, 6.45 pm)
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A Stoic by JOHN GALSWORTHY Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (3)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
