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 7,40 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 )
8.40 Today's Papers
Introduced by Michael Flanders
including: Nationalisation; Berlin Airlift; Royal Silver Wedding; Birth of HRH Prince Charles; ITMA'S 300th Performance; The starting of Mrs Dale's Diary; Assassination of Gandhi; 21 Years of BBC Proms; XlVth Olympic Games; Marshall Aid; The National Health Service
Top Songs, Tunes and Shows
with the recorded voices of Dr Charles Hill, The Rt. Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps, His Majesty King George VI, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, Tommy Handley, Ellis Powell, Howard Keel, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Alec Guinness, Sir Laurence Olivier, Dolores Gray, The Rt. Hon. Ernest Bevin, The Rt. Hon. Clement Attlee, John Snagge, Alvar Liddell, Don Bradman, Georges Guetary, Lizbeth Webb, Field-Marshal Smuts, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
and David Brierley, Michael Deacon, Kathleen Helme, Godfrey Kenton
with Gordon Langford
Research by LESLIE BAILY
Compiled, written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES
VERNON BARTLETT tells why he is no longer continually worrying harassed and discontented, but quietly happier than ever before.
<BBC Sound Archive recording)
St George
NEM p 37: For all thy saints, 0 Lord (BBC HB 228); Psalm 84; St John 14. vv 22-31; Soldiers of the Cross, arise! (BBC HB 367)
Introduced by Sidney Harrison who invites you to listen to a selection of music played by Continental orchestras and DOUGLAS WHITTAKER (flute) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
with Kenny Lynch
A weekday excursion for children
12.8 Announcements
Ken Sykora presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Own Time
Hire It - Don'Buy It: DAVID BELLAN samples the amazing range, from the mundane to the exotic, you can hire today. And other topical items too.
SouthWestVHF:seecol5
ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Mrs Williamson 's birthday party by WINIFRED DORAN
with the BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON and JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin)
by W. B. YEATS : adapted for radio bv w. R. RODGERS with Eithne Dunne
Ray McAnally , Eamonn Keane And starving men walk the fields on sticks
And strike their sticks into the staggering ground
As they fall, to mark their fall, till all the land
Cries out with exclamation marks
How will it end except in devilry W. R. RODGERS
Cast in order of speaking:
Others taking part:
R. H. MCCANDLESS. MICHAEL DUFFY JACK MCQUOID , KATHLEEN FEENAN IRENE BINGHAM
GWENDOLYN STEWART
Music composed and conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON and played by the BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA Produced by RONALD MASON
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Produced by ROY HAYWARD
HBays in Patagonia) by MOLLIE ROBERTSON arranged for radio in five parts by HOWARD JONES
Rea by HILDA SCHRODER
Concluding the childhood autobiography of seven years on two remote stations in the foot-hills of the Andes, just after the first World War.
5: Farewell, Patagonia
Produced by MARGARET ETALL
The news magazine that sums up your day -and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Roger Cook
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
14: Northern Ireland (ii)
John Hosken presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
NANCY wise makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON (Shortened version: Sat, 4.30)
A spontaneous discussion by VIC FEATHER
LORD STOKES LYNDA CHALKER
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from the Albright and Wilson Oldbury Recreation Club, Warley, Worcestershire
Listeners' views for use in Any Answersf 'next Thursday, 7.30 pm) should be sent to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol, BS8 2LR
Following the acquittals in the Sunday Telegraph case, Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act is under review.
What. if anything, should replace it? Does the existing legislation operate as a back-door censor? Should there be a wider review of the rules and practice governing the disclosure of information? How can the need to protect national security' be reconciled with the Government's pledge to ' eliminate unnecessary secrecy concerning the workIngs of the Government '?
Presented by Robert McKenzie Produced by MARTIN cox
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A programme in which a foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week
The Curd bV ARNOLD BENNETT
Read by MICHAEL ALDRIDGE (2)
In which travellers on the Southern Region pass their time like Chaucer's pilgrims by telling stories This week
The Tale of the Sub Bank Mandger
Written by PAUL JENNINGS and told by William Mervyn to JOHN GABRIEL and PATRICK TULL
Produced by DAVID HATCH
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
