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 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
who reflects on the way life has treated him along the road from the Rhondda to film locations around the world.
Produced by ROY WILLIAMSON ‡
The Penny Programme - 10 Presented by STUART HENRY and PETER PACEY
Written by ALEXANDER GUYAN
9.55 Movement and Music 1
NEM p 54; High in the heavens (BBC He 9); Psalm 36; St John 1, vv 14-28: Lord of all hope-fulness (BBC HB 309)
Christian Focus
Still Life, by LESLIE SMITH
10.50 Only Work
(Material for Assembly)
11.0 Time and Tune
Hassebu - 15: A New Spell
Script by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 The Kingdom by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrated by BARRY FOSTER (Man series) 11.40 Shropshire: Telford New City. Compiled by GORDON SNELL
Series produced by ALEX HUNTER (Geography)
Jeanine McMullen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
No Smoking Please: MARGARET HOWARD reviews what arrangements are being made to ban smoking in public places.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see cot 2
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
DAVID FRANKLIN and FRANK MUIR challenge
IAN WALLACE and DENIS NORDEN In the chair STEVE RACE
(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: The story of Pottle Pig by NANCY NORTHCOTE
The Seagull by PENELOPE FARMER adapted by JOAN GRIFFITHS (Living Language)
2.20 Poetry Corner
If I had a donkey
2.30 Unos minutos nada mds 5: Paco y el cubo
Written by ROBERT P. CLARKE (For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
2.40 Learning About Life 5: Early Marriage
Programme arranged and introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
by ANDREW SACHS
by R. D. BLACKMORE : abridged in 12 parts by RONALD RUSSELL Read by PAUL ROGERS
John Ridd returned to Plover's Barrows farm from his dangerous visit to the Doone valley fascinated by the beauty of a young girl called Lorna.
3: Master Huckaback comes in
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
6.35 science 5. Water: the eccentric liquid
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL OKEEFFE
A radio correspondence column (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Bernard Levin 's personal view of the Sixties - a decade, he believes, in which confusion reigned as some voices cried ' Forward! ' and others cried ' Back! ' and both were constantly drowned by mysterious mutterings of ' Sideways! '
He illustrates his recently published theories with some of those voices from recordings in the BBC Sound Archives. Archive research bv MARTIN WINBOLT LEWIS
Produced by HELEN FRY
by ARCHIE HILL
' I want that railroad slowed down! Hire the biggest blackest villains that come out of Birmingham prison. Let them impede the railroad, slow it down. Buy an army of thugs and villains, and the devil take the hindermost.'
Produced by GERRY JONES
Baffled by the world of science and technology? Here's Hot Line with the questions our younger listeners have sent us, and the answers we can all understand.
PADDY FEENY , in the chair. phones our questioners and puts them direct on the Hot Line to:
PATRICK MOORE : astronomy
PROFESSOR JOHN TAYLOR : physics PROFESSOR STAFFORD BEER: technology
DR JOHN CARTHY : biology
Produced by ALISTAIR BROWN
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
by JERRARD TICKELL abridged by NAN MACDONALD Read by Anthony Jacobs
' Venus is a cow of flawless pedigree, sir, but she and her unborn calf are Hitler's prisoners. Within her she carries the first of a noble line but it may also be the last unless ... ' ' Unless what, Carruthers? '
I would like your permission, sir, to send her file across to the War Office-for action.' Produced by JOHN CARDY
(First of 14 instalments)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
