6.27 Farming Week: a regional view of farming in the week ahead. Presented today from the South West by DAVID BUTLER
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
7.58-8.0 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
8.41 Today's Papers
NORMAN TURNER presents some seasonal recordings and thoughts for April.
Ken Sykora. Zena Skinner
Gordon Clyde , Vivian Stanshall take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Produced by Richard GILBERT
NEM page 15; Love divine (BBC HB 329); Canticle 3; St John 13, vv 21-30; City of God (BBC HB 173)
Introduced by Sidney Harrison who invites you to listen to some easily remembered music played by the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE With JANET CRAXTON (oboe) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Produced by JOHNmelot
with Kenny Lynch
This Monday-to-Friday excursion for children into fun, fact and fantasy will cover quite a bit of territory. There will be a useful timetable each day of things to hear, see and do.
In ElectrifyingTalesSalty Sam will tell some tall stories and invite listeners to ' chase the clue ' in the daily competition. There will be Thrills and Spills - a view from the seat of a racing car at Oulton Park. and a spiderman's view of the world below. And there's lots more that Kenny Lynch will bring you all this week.
Produced by GILLIAN HUSH (from Manchester)
(Son of The Orange-coloured Peppermint Humbug: page 15)
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
Life Insurance to safeguard your dependants' immediate future: a listener tells of her experiences and an insurance broker comments.
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 bv Nicholas Woolley
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: Barney the School Bus by PHYLLIS SMITH
with the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conducted by ALAN SUTTIE and JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin)
Produced by ALAN OWEN
The novel by EVELYN ANTHONY
Look at that lovely swan! Do you believe the legend that they sing before they die? '
by R. L. STEVENSON abridged for radio in four parts Read by LEONARD MAGUIRE 2: The Prodigal's Return
' Henceforth we have to follow the spectacle of a man who was a mere whip-top for calamity; on whose unmerited misadventures not even the humorist can look without pity and not even the philosopher without alarm.'
Produced by GORDON EMSLIE
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 dav Presented by Nicholas Woolley and Roger Cook
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 GARARD GREEN, EDWARD KELSEY and TREVOR MARTIN
Written and adapted for radio by RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON Produced by BOBBY JAYE
John Hosken presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEPFE
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
DAVID FRANKLIN and FRANK MUIR challenge
IAN WALLACE and DENIS NORDEN In the chair STEVE RACE
The novel by SYBILLE BEDFORD dramatised for radio bv JOAN O'CONNOR
The story of closely interwoven families in the stifling, militaristic, often rather dotty world of Bismarck's German Empire.
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Towards the End of the Morning by MICHAEL FRAYN
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (ll)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
