6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The 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
Religious Service for Primary Schools
The Lord's Prayer - 6 by Margaret E. Rose
(Tuesday broadcast)
Gwyn Thomas , novelist and playwright, grew up in Glamorgan and still lives there. He presents his personal view of the Rhondda Valley.
Produced by DENYS GUEROULT
Movement and Music 1 for the 5-6-year-olds by PENNY WHITTAM
(Tuesday s broadcast)
NEM p 76: Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140); Psalm 118, vv 1-14; Acts 6, vv 1-15: Jesu, guide our way (BBC HB 144)
Christian Focus
6: What should I do?
10.50 Laugh till it hurts
SPIKE MILLIGAN talks to RALPH ROLLS (Material for Assembly)
11.0 Time and Tune: Farms
Written by douglas COOMBES
11.20 Pilurimaae by MARGERY MORRIS
Presented by BARRY FOSTER Produced by DAVID LYTTLE (Man)
11.40 Calcutta by DESMOND DOIG (Geography)
Ken Sykora presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
'No thanks, I don'take sugar
ANGELA PAIN reports on how slimmers manage to resist temptation and stick to their diets.
Other topical items too. and a selection from your letters in What s On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see col
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Adventures of Pinuer by P. MAY-MILLER
Living Language
' The Sword in the Stone by T. H. WHITE adapted by SAM LANGDON 3: The Owl
2.20 Poetry Corner
Beside the Seaside
A programme of records introduced by Gerald Moore
for the Feast of Corpus Christ! from Oscott College, Birmingham
Principal celebrant and preacher:
THE VERY REV FRANCIS THOMAS
Readings: Genesis 14, vv 18-20; 1 Corinthians 11, vv 23-26; Luke 9, vv 11-17
Music: Two-part Mass in English (L. Beuenot ); Alleluia and psalm chants (C. Mawby); Motet: 0 Sacrum Convivium (Andriessen)
Choirmaster MICHAEL CUPIT Organist JOHN MCMANUS
The action of the Mass described by "R GEOFFREY TUCKER
by SIR WALTER SCOTT abridged in eight parts
Read by Bryden Murdoch
When the last Laird of Ravenswood to Ravenswood shall ride, And woo a dead maiden to be his bride,
He shall stable his steed in the Kelpie's flow,
And his name shall be lost for evermoe.'
Part 1:
The Castle of Ravenswood
Produced by GORDON EMSLIEt
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
From the television series based on the characters created by A...1. CRONIN
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to views expressed in last Friday's Any QuestionsT Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
Produced by ROY HAYWARDt (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Hans Jaeger. Heinrich Fraenkel and Fred Uhlman
All three were refugees from Nazi Germany. All three found themselves interned as ' enemy aliens ' at the outbreak of World War II. In this programme they talk about their captivity and how it changed their attitudes to Britain and to themselves.
Narrated by ROBERT KEE
Research and interviews by MARTIN GREEN
Produced by MICHELL RAPER
The first of a series of pro- grammes about operas based on famous books or plays.
Bizet's Carmen is perhaps the most popular of all romantic music-dramas. How many of those who love the music have read the brilliant short novel by Prosper Merimce on which the opera is based? What is the relationship between the two?
Others taking part ELIZABETH PROUD
JANE JORDAN ROGERS
PATRICK TULL , ANTONY HIGGINSON and JAMES THOMASON
Written by JOANNA RICHARDSON Produced by HALLAM TENNYSON
(The opera can be heard next Saturday on Radio 3)
Meet the people whose research, discoveries and inventions are changing our way of life and our understanding of the world around us.
Presenter Paul Vaughan
John Tusa reporting
The Lost Domain by ALAIN-FOURNIER
Read by ROBERT EDDISON (14)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
