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
740 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
An Act of Worship Heaven and Hell
Introduced by RALPH ROLLS (Radiovision)
A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life. Restaurateur
Madame Prunier talks to JACK SINGLETON about ' La Maison ,' the fish restaurant founded by her grandfather in Paris in 1872, and about some of the famous people who have frequented it.
Music Workshop 1
Produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
NEM p 83; Lord, thy word abideth (BBC HB 1901; Psalm 50; St John 3, vv 22-30, and 4. vv 1-3; Jesus calls us! (BBC HB 354)
Voix de France
16: Les parents francais
Compiled by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY (Sixth-form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
16: Dreaming and dancing (i) (This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0 Quest
A Lion from the East
11.2* Seeing and Saying
How artists, sculptors and poets have looked at people and landscapes.
Programme compiled and produced by JOHN KERRY
(Radiovision: this broadcast should be tape-recorded)
(Listening and Writing) t'
11.40 Prospect. 2000 AD - Shall we still have books?
Compiled by DAVID WILLIAMS
12.0 Announcements
Jeanine McMullen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you Today's main feature: Your Otcn Time
Farthings and Guineas: coin collecting is one of those growing hobbies that can start very cheaply indeed and end up in the millionaire bracket. COLIN REID starts with the pence And other topical items too. South West VHF: see col 2
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
(Thursday's broadcast)
Story: A Ride into the Country by MARY DEAN
Let's Join In
The Good Housewife by VIRGINIA HAVILAND
2.20 You and Survival 6: Give me air
Written by LEWIS JONES
Presented by PETER PACEY
2.40 The Imperial Dragon has Fit'e Claws
An adaptation from a Chinese story by COLIN CLEMAK
(Stories and Rhymes: 7-9)
A Victorian thriller by PATRICK HAMILTON adapted for radio by RAYMOND RAIKES I with Barbara Jefford and Raymond Huntley
The play begins in the rather terrifying darkness of the late afternoon - the foggy hour, as it were, before the dawn of gaslight and tea. The scene is a living-room on the first floor of a four-storied house in a gloomy and unfashionable quarter of London in the latter part of the last century.
Produced by Raymond RAIKES 1
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Produced by ROY HAYWARD
The biography of Ivor Novello (1893-1951) by W. MACQUEEN POPE abridged in nine episodes by DEREK PARKER
Read by JOHN PALMER
8: Imprisonment and Release Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented bv
William Hardcastle and Roger Cook
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
A nation wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title 5: Midlands
Chairman FRANKLIN ENCELMANN MRS ANNA JONES (Rutland)
MICHAEL PATCHELL (Warwickshire) lecturer
DAVID SMITH (Worcestershire) publicity executive
RICHARD CONDON (Birmingham) lecturer
Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by ROBERT DOUGALL Research by JEAN STROUD
Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD (Shortened version: Sat, 4.30)
A spontaneous discussion by LADY BARNETT
RT HON JEREMY THORPE , MP ALASTAIR BURNET
RT HON HAROLD LEVER. MP Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from The Grammar School
Loughborough, Leicestershire (Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answerst should be sent to Any Answers?,, BBC, Bristol, BSS 2LR
The Government intends to redefine the boundaries of public and private enterprise: the days of State pubs are numbered, Thomas Cook and Son is up for sale, and BEA and BOAC are to lose routes worth E6 million to their competitors. What is the case for modifying the role of the State? In what sectors of the economy should the lines be redrawn - and how drastically?
Presented by IAN MCINTYRE
Produced by GEORGE FISCHER
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week
Appointment with Venus by JERRARD T'CKELL
Read by ANTHONY JACOBS (7)
A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker also featuring Terence Brady and Pauline Yates
Gordon Langford at the piano
(Shortened version of Monday's broadcast)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
