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 Analia; see below
8.40 Today's Papers
Religious Service for Primary Schools
Melvyn Bragg presents a per. sonal view of the Solway Plain. Produced by SHEILA ANDERSON
(First broadcast in the BBC World Service.
Movement and Music (i)
NEM p 76; Through all the changing scenes of life (BBC HB 481); Psalm 67; St John 18, vv 28-40: Lead us. Heavenly Father, lead us (BBC HB 307)
Christian Focus
2: Finding the Words. Pupils of a school in County Durham question THE RT REV i. T. RAMSEY, Bishop of Durham, about his work and his beliefs. Produced by DAVID LYTTLE
10.50 Outburst
A short play by MARIANNE COOK (Material for Assembly)
11.0 Time and Tune: Farms
Written by douglas COOMBES
11.20 Krishna's Family by MARGERY MORRIS
Presented by BARRY FOSTER Produced by DAVID LYTTLE (Man)
11.40 Los Angeles by Richard GILBERT. (Geography)
Jeanine McMullen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
Do we have to have chips with everything? JUNE ROSE has been investigating how easy it is to get low-calorie meals when eating out.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 2
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Blue Rabbit goes shopping by ALICE CROSS
LivingLanguage. You'd Better Believe Him: BRIAN PATTEN presents his own poems
2.20 Poetry Corner
The Wise Old Owl
MAXWELL KNIGHT describes how a school of whales disrupts the daily routine of people in the Faroe Islands.
(BBC Sound Archive recording)
The Growing Animal by PROFESSOR W. S. BULLOUGH
(Reproduction and Growth)
by A. E. W. MASON abridged for radio in seven parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Disguised as an Arab, Harry Feversham has entered the captured town of Berber and recovered letters written by General Gordon .
3: Durrance Begins to See Reader DAVID MAHLOWE
Produced by HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Steve Rate
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
(Tuesdays broadcast)
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
A radio correspondence column Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
Produced by ROY HAYWARD (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
The appetite that is aroused in me at the mere thought of putting in order musical elements that have attracted my attention is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic as a natural need
A portrait in words and music with and BLAIN FAIRMAN , LESLIE HERITAGE LEWIS STRINGER , SHEILA GRANT Written and narrated by JEREMY NOBLE
Produced by JANE GRAHAM
(Joss Ackland is in ' Captain Brassbound's Conversion' at the Cambridge Theatre, London)
Four London families talk to RITA DANDO about the routine of their lives. All the parents are at work. All the children do a lot of fending for themselves. How do these families manage? What could, or should, be done to help them?
In discussion, DR MIA KELLMER PRINGLE. Director of the National Children's Bureau, MRS ANTHEA HOLME, co-author of Working Mothers and Their Children, and GEORGE SCHNEIDERS , vice-chairman of the clothing manufacturers Federation of Great Britain.
In the chair MADGE HART
Produced by BARBARA CROWTHER (Shortened version of the broadcast in December 1970)
Meet the people whose research, discoveries and inventions are changing our way of life and our understanding of the world around us.
Presenter PAULVAUGHAN
Produced by ALISTAIR BROWN
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The Card by ARNOLD BENNETT
Read by MICHAEL ALDRIDGE (11)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
