6.27 Farming Today
*.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 deManio - 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 CLIVE CUNNINGHAM ) VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
A view of the Women's Liberation Movement in America by IAN MCINTYRE
It's like a tribal drum. It's beating all over the country (BETTY FRIEDAN )
Women must in a sense commit suicide (TI-GRACE ATKINSON)
Let it all hang out. Let it seem twitchy, cutty, dykey, frustrated ... We are the women that men have warned US about (ROBIN MORGAN)
It's crazy - next thing they'll want is equal time in the men's room (MAN IN A NEW YORK BAR)
Produced by GEORGE FISCHER
(Shortened version of Analysis broadcast on 5 February)
NEM p 19; Ye servants of God (BBC HB 287); Canticle 9; St John 13, v 31, to 14, v 3; Jesus, good above all other (BBC HB 72)
Introduced by Sidney Harrison who invites you to listen to some easily remembered music played by the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by MICHAEL MOORES with IFOR JAMES (horn)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)
with Kenny Lynch
A weekday excursion for children
Joan Yorke presents the Radio
4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Home and Family
One-parent Families (ii) Home Without Mother: LESLIE SMITH investigates
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 East Anglia: see column 1
From the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with
Bill Simpson at Dr Finlay The Cheats: written and adapted by EDDIE MAGUIRE
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE (Repeated:Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley
Story: Margaret moves house by E. COWEN
with the BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conductor KENNETH ALWYN and JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin)
A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 5: The Trial
Early 1933 and George Passant and his friends are charged with conspiracy to defraud.
Other parts RICHARD GRIFFITHS Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
Part 3
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN invites FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post Produced by KENNETH FORD
(Questions, on postcards, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX)
A series of six programmes by JULIA SMALL
2:The Lion Prevails
Emperor Haile Selassie
'Does this initiative mean in practice the abandonment of Ethiopia to her aggressor? Are the States going to set up the terrible precedent of bowing before force? It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.' Readers DENYS HAWTHORNE and HENRY STAMPER
Produced by JOHN SCOTNEY
(from Northern Ireland)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening.
Presented by Nicholas Woolley and Roger Cook
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
John Hosken presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
on behalf of the Labour Party
Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Rt Hon Roy Jenkins , mp
Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Chancellor. Ask him about the Labour Party's role in opposition, its future plans and economic policies.
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed](12 lines) will take them from 6.30 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air.
Produced by WALTER WALLICH
The more I thought about it the clearer it seemed that a real ballet could only be created by the perfect combination of the three main factors - music, decorative design and choreography
An impression, in two parts, of the great days of the Russian Ballet and of the man who created it.
1: The World of Art
Other parts JOHN BLAIN
WILFRED HARRISON , RONALD HARV1 CYNTHIA MICHAELIS
Written by MICHAEL KENNEDY Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON (Part 2: next Tuesday, 8.30 pm)
Is there bias in broadcasting? Is there a liberal or an Establishment conspiracy? Is there merely a consensus view of politics and culture to which most broadcasters subscribe? Or are allegations of bias just examples of selective perception? Is it ' all in the mind '?
These are some of the questions tonight's programme attempts to answer with the help of: RT HON WILLIAM DEEDES , MP, Conservative Minister in charge of Government Information Services 1962-64
GERALD KAUFMAN , MP, Parliamentary Press Liaison Officer Labour Party 1965-70
JOHN BEAVAN , columnist Daily Mirror group
JOHN CRAWLEY , member BBC Board of Management, in charge of news and current affairs 1967-71
Chairman ANTHONY KING , Professor of Government, Essex University
Produced by BERNARD TATE
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world.
Towards the End of the Morning bv MICHAEL FRAYN
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (12)
All the day's news preceded by Weather