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 Manio and John Timpson
7.4t Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7. 51-8. 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
Benny Green examines the music and the man, four-time-academy-awardwinning lyric writer, collaborator with almost every major composer from Jerome Kern to Henry Mancini. whose musical career has spanned every kind of achievement from ' I'm an old cow hand ' to ' Moon River ' and ' Days of Wine and Roses.' Produced by STEVE ALLEN
NEM p 22; Thou art the Way (BBC HB 338); Psalm 9; St John 14. vv 4-14; 0 Holy Ghost, thy people bless (BBC HB 156)
Introduced by Sidney Harrison who invites you to listen to some easily remembered music played by the BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA led by PETER GIBBS conducted by EDWARD GERBER with colin BRADBURY (clarinet) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Holiday Show 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 Rights and Responsibilities
Dealing with your Bank: whether you are opening an account or obtaining an overdraft you are entering into a contract. GREVILLE JANNER , MP, explains some basic points about banks and the law.
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 IAA; or phone [number removed]. extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: see col
Written by HARRY IBBETSON and based on the characters in the Larkin family saga by H. E. BATES with Bernard Miles and Betty Marsden
2: Wetting the baby's head
When a mother and daughter quite obviously have a secret they won'share with their menfolk, then they're up to something. Pop and his son-in-law Charley are worried. Ma and Mariette are definitely up to something. But what?
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Saturday, 8.0 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Tiger Tim grows up by ANNE ENGLISH
with the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conducted by ALAN SUITIE and JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin)
... and the not-so-gentle effects of its song on Cyriad Morgan and her neighbours. A Welsh comedy by EDWARD REES
Produced by Lorraine DAVIES
The Palace of the Cavendishes Life behind the scenes described by the house carpenter, the clockwinder, the electrician, the engineer, the head gardener, the house-keeper, the librarian, the sign pamter, the silver steward, the stonemason, the upholstress, the Comptroller, and THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE in conversation with MADEAU STEWART
Being the adventures of the Bastable children in search of a fortune by E. NESBIT (1858-1924) abridged in eight episodes and told by DAVID DAVIS 3:Noel's Princess
' She happened quite accidentally. We were not looking for a Princess at all just then; but Noel had said he was going to find a Princess all by himself, and marry her. And he really did.'
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Roger Cook
5.50-t.O Regional news, weather and programme news
ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair Produced by BOBBY JAYE
John Hosken presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFt
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the Castle Douglas district of Kirkcudbrightshire
Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD
by GWEN CHERRE1.L with Alethea Charlton and Robin Ellis
You can certainly meet all sorts when you are employed as a maintenance man by the Gas Board, but some people are certainly more ' peculiar' than others.
Produced by MARTIN JENKINS
With Magnus Magnusson
Graham Greene, in an interview, talks about The Power and the Glory ('I always feel that this or Brighton Rock was my best book') and two other novels in the new collected edition
Patrick Keatley reviews Nadine Gordimer's new novel A Guest of Honour set in Africa
Hugh Leonard on the Irish writer Frank O'Connor whose autobiography and selected short stories are now in paperback
Tonight: Robert Kee
(Repeated: Sunday, 6.45 pm)
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Towards the End of the Morning by MICHAEL FRAYN abridged by GEOFFREY MATTHEWS Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE
Produced by ROSEMARY HART
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
