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 below
8.40 Today's Papers
A magazine edition
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
History in Evidence Stuart Britain
4: Cromwell's Conscience Written by DAVID ROBINS
Produced by DICKON REED
9.45 Music Workshop 2
Another Shore: by JOHN PARRY and MICHAEL JESSETT
NEM p 7: All creatures of our God and King (BBCHB2): Psalm 8; St Luke 24. vv 33-48; Fill thou my life (BBC HB 271)
Eight programmes selected from a regular series broadcast to listeners overseas to the BBC World Service 4: Berkeley Castle
Introduced by MICHAEL CANNEY Produced by ROY HAYWARD (from Bristol)
Foreign Correspondent
Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR
11.0 Inquiry
Unit 5: Voice of South 4: Protest and Action
by JACK SINGLETON
(for the 15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Prime Movers 4: Whittle and the jet engine
by Carry Lyle
Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Contemporary History 4: The Partition of India
Written and narrated by JOHN TUSA
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Rights and Responsibilities
'I don'feel inclined to make a will': EDDIE WILLIAMS speculates on the reasons for this reluctance and points out the complications that result from not taking this simple step.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA: or phone [number removed] and record your letter)
with Bernard Miles , Betty Marsden Written by HARRY IBBETSON based on the characters in the Larkin family saga by H. E. BATES
6: Granddd Pop ... Popf
After the excitement of the Coroner's Court, the inhabitants of Larkin Farm return to their normal domestic chaos. It seems that the Bishop wants the proceeds of the annual Church Fete donated to his Foreign Missions, but the Larkins and Mr Candy have other ideas.
Produced bv
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Saturday, 8.0 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Three little Bicycles by ELIZABETH COLEMAN
Movement, Mime, and Music 1 for the 7-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 1 Know Where I Stand
JON STALLWORTHY introduces the last of four programmes of poems illustrating this theme. Produced by STUART EVANS (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Making Ginger Beer by LESLEY GOULD (Nature)
by PAM TICKELL
' What d'vou mean, we're not newsworthy? All right, so other women are fighting for their rights too, but that doesn'make our case any the less important. You wait till they re carting our bones out. 'Cause I'll tell you now. we'd sooner starve than give in.' Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
What is the secret of man's infatuation with the Rose? Through the ages it has appeared in his art. his literature, his music and his garden. Today the infatuation has become almost an obsession, with 40-million roses bought and sold in Britain each year. Franklin Engelmann introduces this anthology of music, poetry and prose, with the common theme: love of the Rose.
With him are VIOLET CARSON ANTONIA RIDGE
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS MAUREEN BECK , ALEX GLASGOW RITA MORRIS , FLORENCE AKST KATHY AND TREVOR HOLROYD
Produced by KENNETH FORD
Being the adventures of the Bastable children in search of a fortune: by E. NESBIT abridged in eight episodes and told by DAVID DAVIS
7: The Robber and the Burglar ' There are ways of being robbers that are not wrong,' said Noel. 'If you can rob a robber, it is a right act.'
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5.50-6.9 Regional news, weather and programme news
ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair Produced bv BOBBY JAYE +
(Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday. 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O KEEFFE
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Evington. Leicestershire Produced bv PHYLLIS ROBINSON Pontardulais, Glam
by ANDREW DAVIES
This is the third comedy about Steph Smith , who now yearns for a ' man of some distinction.' She meets one in Gavin, a university lecturer, but he turns out to be a man of some complexity as well.
Produced by JAMES DUCKETT (from Birmingham)
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
With DEREK PARKER
SIR FRANCIS MEYNELL talks about his autobiography My Lives, published on his 80th birthday WILLIAM PLOMER on Rupert Brooke with reference to a new edition of his poetical works and Rupert Brooke - Reappraisal by Timothy Rogers COLIN WILSON discusses Shawan Autobiography and a collection of his plays
PETER LOVESEY on The Detective Wore Silk Drawers - his new crime novel set in the seedy world of bare-fist pugilism in late Victorian England and other new books
Produced by ROSEMARY HART and MIRIAM RAPP
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.45 pm)
A professional broadcaster talks on a topic which has caught his attention,
Tonight: Christopher Serpell
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The Heir by v. SACKVILLE-WEST Read by CARLETON HOBBS (3)
All the dav's news preceded by Weather
