6.27 Farming Week: a regional view of farming in the week ahead. Presented today from the Midlands by ANTHONY PARKIN
6.45 Prayers 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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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 below
8.40 Today's Papers
NORMAN TURNER presents some seasonal recordings and thoughts for May
Ken Sykora , Zena Skinner
Gordon Clyde , Vivian Stanshall and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Produced by ELIZABETH SMITH
NEM p 1; 0 worship the Lord (BBC HB 267); Psalm 63: St John 21. vv 15-25; A safe stronghold (BBC HB 297)
French for Beginners Lesson 27: Revision
Written by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
(A radiovision programme)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous Voici! 23: Roger a Millau
Written by PAULE-ALINE DENT (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together (24)
Script by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.29 Springboard. Wind 2
Script by HEATHER YOUNG
Produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
11.40 Drama Workshop: Noah
Reader PETER PACEY
with music and special sounds created by DELIA DERBYSHIRE BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Money - earning, saving, and spending it
More about Estate Agents:
NIGEL REES enquires into their various associations, the qualifications they demand from their members, and the security they offer to the client.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 2
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREWBOYLE
Story: The boy with the red shoes by LEILA BERG
Because It's There
4: Mt Everest - the new way Script by JOHN EARLE
(Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS with MARI GRIFFITH
2.30 Responsibility
A scene from An Enemy of the People by HENRIK IBSEN , adapted by Arthur MILLER. (Speak)
2.40 Movement. Mime, and Music 2 by GLYN HARRIS
The novel by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The novel by DAPHNE DU MAURIER abridged in eight parts by GORDON GOW
Read by JILL BALCON 2: Manderley
' So Mrs Van Hopper has had enough of Monte Carlo and now she wants to go home. So do 1. She to New York and I to Manderley. Which would you prefer? You can take your choice.'
Produced bv PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening.
Including the latest news, the evening press, what's on tonight, the City, and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by Nicholas Woolley and Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
with Stephen Murray
Jon Pertwee , Leslie Phillips
A chronicle of events aboard hms Troutbridge written by LAWRIE WYMAN and GEORGE EVANS
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
John Hosken presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A general knowledge contest between schoolchildren in Australia. New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom.
London team: Michael Davies, Elizabeth Sharp, John Peet
Question-master John Ellison
Sydney team: Charles Maddison, Igor Nossar, Colleen Guray
Question-master John Dease
(Also broadcast on the networks of ABC Australia, NZBC, New Zealand and CBC Canada)
Producers in Sydney Hal Lashwood, in London Martin Fisher
Nigel Stock discusses with DEREK JONES his interest in wildlife and its conservation, and chooses some natural history recordings from the BBC'S Sound Archives.
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN and JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)
by DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE with Dennis Waterman
' Reg is happy all right - so bloomin' happy that he gets lumbered with the first bit of skirt that he happens to meet!' But Reg doesn'feel that he's lumbered - he wants to get married and have the baby: anything else would be a waste of time.'
Produced by JANE GRAHAM
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
by V. SACKVILLE-WEST abridged by ELISABETH ROWLEY Read by Carleton Hobbs
For 500 years his aunt's family had been Lords of the Manor of Blackboys. Now he was sole heir. He owned the Elizabethan manor house, the farms, the cottages. the park, the gardens, the peacocks on the lawn. All this mortgaged beauty. All this debt. And he had to make the most vital, the most agonising decision of his life.
Produced by JOHN CARDY
(First of five instalments)
All the day's news preceded by Weather