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 Manie 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 bv DEREK JONES) VHF East Anglia: see col 5
8.4. Today's Papers
What Sort of Compromiser
How can the modern farmer run his farm as a commercial proposition and yet continue to provide a home for our native wild animals, birds and plants? On a visit to a typical farm DEREK BARBER shows just hOW this compromise can be made to work.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Produced by dilys BREESE (from Bristol)
(Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
History in Evidence
Tudor Britain. 2: Henry VIII 's Marriage to Anne Boleyn
Written by MICHAEL SMEE
9.45 Music Workshop 2
The Pennine Way: by GERARD victory and HAROLD MASSINGHAM
NEM p 7; Immortal, invisible (BBC HB 10): Psalm 65; St John 6, vv 1-14: Forth in thy name (BBC HB 406)
Horizons de France 7: Un journaliste
Written by GEOFFREY braithwaite (Fifth-year French)
10.45 Foreign Correspondent
Introduced by graham tayar
11.0 Inquiry
7: Limits of Freedom Written by TONY GIBSON
(for the 15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery
Roupd-up programme
11.40 Contemporary History 8: The Cold War Today
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Rights and Responsibilities
How much is a guarantee worth?: creville JANNER, MP, looks at the present position and the wavs in which it could be improved.
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 Gives a Party starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon
William Mervyn as the Bishop Derek Nimmo as the Bishop's Chaplain
John Barron as the Dean Guests Naomi Chance and Joan Sanderson
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Joey and Uncle Ron by DOROTHY EDWARDS
Movement, Mime and Music 1 for the 7-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 The Dark Tower by LOUIS MACNEICE: part 1 Produced by STUART EVANS (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Animal Language by ERIC SIMMS. (Nature)
by NICHOLAS WOOD
' They got the answer these pixies.... no doubt about it. All that running around, doing things ... just a distraction. All you want is a nice lawn, and a log to sit on ... and a pipe, and there you are ... you're made. Keep still ... let everything else move. Watch. They got the answer these pixies ... no doubt about it.'
Produced by gerry JONES
The Drive for Education - then and now
Introduced by Rachael Evans
In the remote Norfolk village of the Rudhams where she grew up, Rachael Evans talked to several families - grandparents, parents and children.
The oldest remembers when he had to take 1d fee to school every morning (and what happened when he spent it on sweets): the youngest is still at grammar school. How have attitudes changed to the importance of 'a good start'?
A serial in five episodes by Alan Rees based on the story of Mary Lindell, OBE, and her search for her youngest son who disappeared from Paris during the war.
(from Birmingham)
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, TEDDY BEVERLEY KATHARINE WHITEHORN
BERYL TE WIATA
In the chair ANONA WINN Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Featherstone, Yorks
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON (Sunday'sbroadcast: extended)
Wilfred's chance encounter with Delia, and the ensuing relationship, has repercussions for her sisters Daphne and Blanche.
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
With MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
ANDREW CRUICKSHANK On Roy Campbell 's autobiography Light on a Dark Horse, now in paperback
STANLEY HOLLOWAY relads some of W S. Gilbert 's Bab Ballads. The first complete edition with all 360 of their original illustrations is published tomorrow WILLIAM BARCLAY on The Jesus of the Early Christians by G. A. Wells
ANTONIA FRASER on An Egg at Easter, a folklore study by Venetia Newall
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON (Repeated: Thursday. 3.45 pm)
A professional broadcaster talks on a topic which has caught his attention. Tonight: John Whale
(Repeated: Sunday, 6.45 pm)
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
by ROSEMARY ANNE SISSON abridged by GARRIEL WOOLF Read by David March
In the year 1800 the Sussex coast was a wild place. Sometimes the night would be lit by strange lights, its silence broken by low voices and muffled oars. It was dangerous to ask questions, dangerous to be an exciseman.
Produced by JOHN CARDY (First of 13 instalments)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends