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 ) VHF East Anglia: see col 5
8.40 Today's Papers
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News Staff
Religious Service for Primary Schools
The Lord's Prayer by MARGARET E. ROSE 1: Our Father
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Movement and Music 2 by JAMES DODDING
NEM p 47; Love of the Father (BBC HB 522); Psalm 48; St John 16, vv 1-11; Lord of our life (BBC HB 179)
DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR recalls one of the great tenors of the century
Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Indian Music.- presented by GARY TAYLOR. (Music Club)
11.40 Luther by JOHN OSBORNE
BARRY FOSTER as Luther in the first part of a radio adaptation. Adapted and produced by DAVID LYTTLE
(Sixth Form Series: Religion in its Contemporary Context)
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Home and Family
Still a Man's World in 1971?: JEANINE MCMULLEN looks at the kind of job opportunities open to women.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see col 5
From the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
This week: Belle written by ROSEMARY HILL and DONALD BULL , and adapted by DONALD BULL
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Produced by PETER TITRERADGE (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: Teddy Bear gets too big for his jacket by MARGARET GORE
James Watt and the Steam Engine
Written by MILES TOMALIN (World History)
2.20 Music Session The Beggar's Opera with GORDON REYNOLDS and boys of St Michael's College, Tenbury Produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
Dressmaker to Queen Victoria's Court: 96-year-old
Mrs Eleanor Appleby remembers London at the turn of the century and talks to JEANINE MCMULLEN about her life as a court dressmaker.
Produced by SUSAN ERLBECK (Repeated: Friday, 9.25 am)
A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 6: A Nature marked out by Fate Summer 1933: Lewis Eliot and Roy Calvert are drawn closer together in their Aloneness.
Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
Part 4
Members of the Alfreton Group of Townswomen's Guilds put their questions to:
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL Question-master
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Produced by KENNETH FORD
A series of six programmes by JULIA SMALL
3: The Persistent Exile Napoleon III
' I will never forget the constant kindness of the Emperor when I had the pleasure of seeing him. Your Majesty has the whole country's sympathy, for the dear Emperor was much loved here.'
Readers DENYS HAWTHORNE
HENRY STAMPER , MARGARET D'ARCY 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
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
John Hosken presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to Rt Hon Robert Carr, MP, Secretary of State for Employment
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.
'No ordinary measure of human relations could be applied to so exceptional a man. He was a Dionysian heathen. He loved all earthly things-earthly love, earthly passion, earthly beauty ... '
An impression, in two parts, of Sergei Diaghilev and the great days of the Russian Ballet 2: The Passionate Pagan Narrator David Mahlowe
Sergei Diaghilev Antony Boden Other parts played by JOHN BLAIN , WILFRED HARRISON RONALD HARVI , ALAN MOORE
Written by MICHAEL KENNEDY Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON
If your 12-year-old son asks you about ' pot ' what should you say? If your teenage daughter is determined to go to a party where you fear she might be offered drugs, what advice can you give? What do you reply when your child says ' But you drink, that's an addiction too! ' Should parents talk about drugs or is this better left to the schools? These are among the problems discussed by: DR GEORGE BIRDWOOD , author of The Willing Victim, a parents' guide to drug abuse
ESMÉ RAINBIRD. a teacher and school counsellor at a comprehensive school
DEREK COX, a youth worker with special experience of the problems of addiction Chairman JUNE ROSE
Produced by THENA HESHEL
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The Card by ARNOLD BENNETT
Read by MICHAEL ALDRIDGE (4)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
