6.27 Farming Week: a regional view of farming in the week ahead. Presented today from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
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
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
'Look in today's newspaper and you'll find a Shakespearean character or situation. To understand him look at the world around you.'
With the help of the BBC Sound Archives DAVID BROOMFIELD lightheartedly examines this statement,
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 22; All ye who seek for sure relief (BBC HB 289); Psalm 27, part 1; Wisdom 3, vv 1-9 (Jerusalem Bible); Lead us, 0 Father, in the paths of peace (BBC HB 308)
French for Beginners
28: Une sortie a la campagne Written by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
(A radiovision programme)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous Voicil
25: Planète 217, Episode 1: B - 22 + K9 = Terre
Written by MICHEL FAURE (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together (25) With JOHN HUW DAVIES
Written by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Springboard
GLADYS WHITRED introduces experiments with Sound and Music
11.40 Drama Workshop: ' The Young King' by OSCAR WILDE Reader ANTHONY JACOBS
Music: ' Ameriques ' by Varese
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Money
BA, PhD - unemployed: With the present worry about out-of-work graduates, ANNE LAPPING asks where the fault lies - with the graduates themselves or the careers advisory services? Or is this begging the basic question: should our education system be more geared to the needs of our economy?
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 ANDREW BOYLE
Story: David and his box by MRS F. M. HARDY
Look for Yourself 1: Cheddar Gorge
Script by DOUGLAS BOTTING (Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
With MARI GRIFFITH
2.30 Enjoying the Risk
Men against the Eiger: DOUGAL HASTON describes the ascent of, the north face in 1966. (Speak)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 by GLYN HARRIS
The novel by DAPHNE DU MAURIER abridged in eight parts by GORDON GOW
Read by JILL BALCON 3: The West Wing
'You wouldn'think she had been gone now for so long would you, not by the way the rooms are kept? Sometimes, when I walk along the corridor here, I fancy I hear her just behind me. That quick, light footstep ..."
Produced by 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 Roger Cook
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
with Jon Pertwee
Leslie Phillips , Stephen Murray A chronicle of events aboard HMS Troutbridge
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A general knowledge contest between schoolchildren in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Winnipeg team: Richard Decter, Martha Barber, Lawrence Sokoloff
Question-master Bob Burton
Wellington team: Alison Miller, Rosalind Salas, Leslie Galler
Question-master Lyell Boyes
(Also broadcast on the networks of ABC Australia, NZBC New Zealand and CBC Canada)
Producers in Winnipeg Ken Bolton, in Wellington Graeme Ross
Kenneth Allsop 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 JOHN BURTON and PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)
by MARY BENSON and LIANE AUKIN from MARY BENSON 's new novel with Liane Aukln and Sean Barrett
... At the still point, there the dance is (T. S. Eliot)
Produced by GUY VAESEN
(Alton Kumalo is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company; Willie Jonah is a National Theatre player)
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
(Le Grand Meaulnes) by ALAIN-FOURNIER translated by FRANK DAVISON abridged by ARTHUR BARTON Read by Robert Eddison
'I recall that evening as one of the great moments of my adolescence. I was filled with a happiness tinged with anxiety ... for without daring to confess it I was counting on le grand Meaulnes for some extra. ordinary exploit that would be sure to turn everything upside down.'
Produced by FLORENCE AKST (First of 15 instalments)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
