6.27 Farming Week: a regional view of farming in the week ahead. Presented today from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news. weather and programme news
The world this morning introduced by Jack de Manio and John Timpson
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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
picks The Right Gear from records about fashion in the BBC Sound Archives
Zena Skinner. Gordon Clyde Vivian Stanshall and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Produced by RICHARD GILBERT
A series of personal reflections 1: SIR TYRONE GUTHRIE
Monday in Holy Week
NEM p 22; All glory, laud and honour (BBC HB 78); Psalm 25: Mark 14. vv 53-65 (NEB); We sing the praise of him who died (BBC HB 95)
introduced by Sidney Harrison who invites you to listen to some easily-remembered music played by the BBCNORTHERNSYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by SIMON STREATFEILD yossi zivoni (violin)
Produced by JOHN MELOY
The book by GEOFFREY MORGAN adapted as a serial reading in five parts by the author
Read by Richard HurndaU 1: Visitors
After the crowded streets of London's East End Joe found a new and magical world in the country round Valley End. The countryman Ben Pollard taught him the rhythm of the seasons and the ways of the wild creatures who inhabited wood and field. But wherever you lived life still had its problems, as Joe discovered.
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
MARGARET NAYLOR. author Of How to Reduce Your Tax Bill, discusses personal tax problems arising out of the Budget. Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see col 2
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: My naughty little sister's Cocoa Weekend by DOROTHY EDWARDS
with the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND PHILIP CHALLIS (piano)
Produced by ALAN OWEN
with Jane Wenham
Patrick Troughton and Geoffrey Beevers as Bernard West
Adapted for radio in four parts by WILFRED HARRISON from the book by RAYMOND FOXALL based on the true story of the Knutsford Highwayman With GEOFFREY WHEELER
RONALD HARVI , MARAH STOHL
It seems that marriage to Kathleen Birtles will make an honest man of Edward, but all too soon he reverts to petty thieving and robbery, enmeshing himself in a tangle of lies. And the journalist Trelawney once again seeks out Edward's elder brother Thomas in the hope of tracking down the man who escaped deportation and who now plans to wed the innocent Kathleen. 4: The Hunt is Up
Produced bv TREVOR HILL (from Manchester)
The news magazine that sums up your day-and starts off your evening.
Including the latest news. the evening press, what's on tonight, the City. and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by Nicholas Woolley and Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
starring
Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett with JOHN RYE and EDWARD KELSEY Tea for two
Written and adapted for radio by RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON Produced by BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
John Hosken presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
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
A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker also featuring
TERENCE BRADY and PAULINE YATES with GORDON LANGFORD at the piano The lines are contributed by JOHN GRAHAM, DAVID NOBBS, DAVID MCKELLAR , PETER VINCENT, DONALD MONAT, JUNE DIXON, MYLES RUDGE, TED DICKS, PETER SPENCE, ALLAN SCOTT and CHRIS BRYANT, GERALD WILEY Produced by JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(Shortened version: Friday 11.15 pm)
by LYDIA RAGOSIN with Haydn Jones and Beatrix Lehmann
The author does not believe King John was a Christian. but that he was influenced by his descent, as a Plantagenet, from Robert the Devil and by the old pagan religion of his Norse forebears. For her. this explains his impiety, his irreverent treatment of the clergy and his refusal to receive the Sacrament, even at his Coronation.
The action takes place in England and France, and ranges in time between 1199 and 1216 Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
by Michael Frayn abridged by Geoffrey Matthews. Read by Denys Hawthorne
John Dyson, head of the Cross-word and Country Diary department of a Fleet Street newspaper, has never really achieved any of his early ambitions. Plagued at home by dry rot and two children he doesn't understand and at work by the fear that a journalist is finished at 40, he seizes on the chance to become a television personality. (First of 13 instalments)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
