6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The world this morning 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
8 0 The News and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and EAnglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREKJONES)
8.40 Today's Papers
An Act of Worship
Men of Faith: Kagawa by ALEC MARTIN
Introduced by RALPH ROLLS
Music Workshop 1
' The Tree ' by WILLIAM MURPHY and IAN HUMPHRIS
NEM p 80; The Son of God goes forth to war (BBC HB 2351; Psalm 34, vv 1-10; Galatians 5, v 22 to 6, v 10: Disposer supreme (BBC HB 226)
ROBERT AICKMANtalks about his concern for the use of waterways in Britain. introduced by DAVID DUNHILL
Produced by SHEILA ANDERSON
A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
26: The Overcoat - weather
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
David Gell examines the rise and decline of the Big Bands, recalling the personalities associated with them 6 The Vocal Groups
Produced by JOHN KNIGHT
Football Crazy: from 'The Penny World' by ARTHUR BARTON (Listening and Writing)
1: Berlioz
Reader FRANK DUNCAN
First of three programmes of readings and music selected by JOHN LADE
Ken Sykora presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Own Time
Mongrel dogs or pedigrees - what would you choose? Jeanine McMullen talks to naturalist Phil Drabble about why it's sometimes good to have a mongrel.
And other topical items too.
VHF South West: see column 5
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William HardcasUe
Story: The Peacock by RUTH AINSWORTH
Let's Join In
Piccolo: part 1
DENIS MATTHEWS introduces music played by Copland
Bright Beads and Many Feathers
A California Indian tale retold by JANE LOUISE CURRY (Stories and Rhymes 7-9)
by Peter Russell
"If I get this job perhaps Linda will be like her old self again."
"That old self was pretty far back. David: Very nearly ancient history!"
(Broadcast in 1967: Light)
(Next Week: "Our West Ladyton Branch" by R.D. Wingfield)
by THOR HEYERDAHL translated by PATRICIA CRAMPTON adapted for radio in ten parts by NAN MACDONALD
7: Bearded Men are Floating Westward across the Atlantic
' It was pleasant to lie completely relaxed and to gaze up at exactly the same view that seafarers and desert wanderers had gazed up at for thousands of years before us ...' Reader JOHN JUSTIN
Produced by BRIAN MILLER
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
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title
Second Round: featuring each week three winners from the first round of the contest 7: Scotland und Wales
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL OKEEFFE
Nancy Wise makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by John Ellison
(Shortened version: Sat, 4.30)
A spontaneous discussion by RT HON RICHARD MARSH
LUDOVIC KENNEDY
DAME IRENE WARD , MP C. A. JOYCE
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from Thomlinson's Church of England Secondary School, Rothbury, Northumberland
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answersr should be sent to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR
Presented by PETER JENKINS
Reactions from Henry Ford II to the strike in his British subsidiary reminded us how much of our industry is controlled from abroad.
How does this control operate in practice? Does the multinational corporation have freedom to transfer money and work across frontiers? Does it use its power to the advantage or detriment of the British economy?
With contributions from:
WALTER HAYES. Vice-President, Ford of Europe
SIR VAL DUNCAN, Chairman, Rio Tinto-Zinc
PETER TRIER , Director, Philips Industry
RT HON ANTHONY WEDGWOOD BENN , mp, former Minister of Technology
CHRISTOPHER TUGENDHAT , MP
CLIVE JENKINS , General Secretary, ASTMS
CHARLES LEVINSON , General Secretary, International Federation of Chemical and General Workers' Unions
Produced by RICHARD KEEN
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A programme in which a foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week
(Le Grand Mcaulnes) by ALAIN-FOURNIER translated by FRANK DAVISON abridged by ARTHUR BARTON Read by ROBERT EDDISON
Produced by FLORENCE AKST
Next Monday: part 1 of ' Bhowani Junction ' by John Masters
Charlotte and Peter Mitchell Reeves with an entertainment for late evening
Sketches, songs, music and musing in random harmony Produced by JOHN bridges
preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
