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 column 5
8.40 Today's Papers
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News Staff
Service for Primary Schools The Lord's Prayer by MARGARET E. ROSE - 4
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Movement and Music 2 by JAMES DODDING
NEM p 4; The God of Abraham praise (BBC HB 283): Psalm 47: St Luke 24, vv 13-31; The Lord is King! (BBC HB 26)
Singer of the 50s recalled by ALAN DELL
Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Dulcimers
Presented bv GARY TAYLOR (Music Club)
11.40 I'll go on sweeping the corridor
A woman who knew she was shortly to die talks to ROY TREVIVIAN. (Edited version of the interview broadcast in 1968 in Subject for Sunday. Sixth Form series: Religion in its Contemporary Context)
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Home antt Family
Swotting Successfully: NORMAN EVANS , ex-headmaster, tells you how to help your child through exams and talks to DR W. D. WALL , Dean of the Institute of Education at London University, about right and wrong learning methods.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5
From the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with My Late Dear Husband written and adapted by DONALD BULL
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Produced bv PETER TITHERADGE (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: The Fairy in the cherry tree by MARGUERITE TAPLEY
David Livingstone explores the Zambezi (1853-56)
Written by MARGARET J. MILLER (World History)
2.20 The Beggar's Opera with GORDON REYNOLDS and boys of St Michael's College, Tenbury (Music Session)
Strip King
'I have always been respectable - would say the phrase today is I am now acceptable.' Paul Raymond , owner of the world-famous Revue Bar, tells ROBERT WILLIAMS how he started off as a boy trumpeter and mind-reader, ' fiddled ' his way through the war, then made a fortune in the Soho area. Produced by SUSAN ERLBECK (Repeated: Friday, 9.25 am)
A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 9: News After a Medical Examination
New Year, 1937. The Masters: the struggle for the leadership of a Cambridge College.
Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
Part 7
Members of the Whitby and District Floral and Horticultural Society, North Riding of Yorkshire, put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ARTHUR BILLITT Question-master
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Produced by FLORENCE AKST
A series of six programmes by Julia Small
"I, General de Gaulle; now in London, call on all French officers and men who are at present on British soil, or may be in the future, to get in touch with me. Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and shall not die..."
(from Northern Ireland)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening.
Presented by Nicholas Woolley and Steve Race
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Jimmy Clitheroe in Whatever happened to Grandad?
(Repeated: Wed. 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Dr Derek Stevenson , Secretary of the British Medical Association and Chairman of the Council of the World Medical Association.
Ask him about the Health Service and private practice, our hospitals and nurses, health research and the price of drugs. 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.
Produced by WALTER WALLICH
The book by iris BUTLER arranged for radio by HOWARD JONES with Lady Reading went to India as the consort of her husband when he was Viceroy, 1921-25. In her book Iris Butler has made a selection from the letters the Vicereine wrote home. A vivid picture emerges of life in the vanished world of British India.
Narrated by JAMES THOMASON
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
The most momentous summer in British history since the war - that may prove to be the experts' verdict on the months that lie ahead as the die is finally cast for or against the Government's bid to join the Common Market.
In the wake of the most crucial round of negotiations so far, in Brussels last week, Radio 4 launches this special occasional series that will bring under scrutiny all the more important aspects of the wide-ranging arguments for or against entry.
Alan Watson, economic commentator, presents the series, and this first programme examines such crucial issues as:
A square deal for New Zealand: the contributors include their Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Sir Keith Holyoake
Showdown - or not - over sugar?
The EEC budget - how much should Britain pay?
(Next programme: 8 June)
(Analysis - Britain Without the Six: Friday 28 May, 9.15 pm)
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The Heir by v. SACKVILLE-WEST Read by CARLETON HOBBS. (2)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
