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
Nature Trail on the Seashore At this season of the spring tides, the shore is particularly interesting to naturalists. JOHN BARRETT takes us on a Radio Nature Trail on the coast of Pembrokeshire to see some of the worms, sponges, sea anemones, crabs, fish and shells which are rarely uncovered by the tide.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Produced by DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened edition of Sunday's broadcast) +
History in Evidence Tudor Britain - 4
Written by HUGH WOODHOUSE S.45 Music Workshop 2
The Pennine Way: by GERARD VICTORY and HAROLD MASSINGHAM
St Patrick
NEM p 50: I bind unto myself today (BBC HB 170); Psalm 150: St John 8, vv 21-36; Who would true valour see (BBC HB 371)
Horizons de France 9: Saint-Exupery
Written by PAULE-ALINE DENT (Fifth-year French)
10.45 Foreign Correspondent
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
Unit 4: Law and Order 9: Criminal Background Written by TONY GIBSON
(for the 15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Bread
2: Corn in Egypt, by JO MANTON Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Contemporary History
10: The Motor Car in Britain
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Rights and Responsibilities
Compensation for Personal Injuries: a Barrister explains when damages can be claimed and how they are assessed.
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: see col 2
Written and adapted for radio from their television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS Give a Dog a Bad Name
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Gregory Goat tries to go swimming by MOLLY SOLE
Movement, Mime and Music 1 by JAMES DODDING
2.20 The Dark Tower by LOUIS MACNEICE - 3
Produced by STUART EVANS (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Making Bird Whistles by MARGARET SHEFFIELD (Nature)
A comedy by Matthew Walters
with Peter Baldwin, Rosemary Martin, John Westbrook
Applethwaite was the fly in the ointment - always had been. Champion of this, prizes for that. This time, though, Applethwaite was in for a pretty nasty shock.
A pattern left in the air by the voices of poets and the sound of the sea itself
Compiled by ANN meo from
BBC Sound Archive recordings Produced by MADEAU STEWART
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. Read by MARY WIMBUSH Part 3
Produced by JAMES DUCKETT (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 MARGARET POWELL
JUNO ALEXANDER , JANE LEHRER In the chair ANONA WINN Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Produced bv CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
John Hosken presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the North Walsham district of Norfolk
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON
A black comedy for radio by GEOFFREY and ROSEMARY BELLMAN
With Bernard Cribbins
' I've never pretended that I was one of the top people in the business. I know I should be bringing home more than I do ... but I have my limitations. We all have.'
Produced by MARGARET ETALL
with MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
JOHN HALE on We Speak No Treason, a new historical novel about Richard III
ANTONIA FRASER on Robert, Earl of Essex, by Robert Lacey , the first biography for 30 years, including one of his sonnets read by ROBERT DONAT
A. S. BYATT recommends some books on Queen Elizabeth I, with readings by GLENDA JACK
SON JOHN DONAT on The Environmental Handbook: 1970s your last chance to act to make Britain worth living in ' Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON and DAN ZERDIN
Tonight: Ian McIntyre
(Repeated: Sunday, 6.45 pm)
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A series of personal views 2:RABBI JOHN RAYNOR
Senior Minister of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John 's Wood, London
The Exciseman by ROSEMARY ANNE SISSON
Read by DAVID MARCH (11)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
