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
Island Nature Trail: this month's Trail takes us to the little island of Steepholm in the Bristol Channel to see tts interesting plants and colonies of nesting gulls.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Produced by DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
History in Evidence Restoration Britain 3: The Plague. 1666
Written by NORMAN LONGMATE
9.45 Music Workshop 2
Another Shore: by JOHN PARRY and MICHAEL JESSETT
Produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
NEM p 93; My God, I love thee (BBC HB 276); Psalm 119, part 7; Acts 8, vv 26-40; For the beauty of the earth (BBC HB 272)
Eight programmes selected from a regular series broadcast to listeners overseas to the BBC's World Service 7: Lyme Bay
Introduced by BERNARD PRICE Produced by ROY HAYWARD (from Bristol)
Foreign Correspondent
Each week, an examination in depth of a major and topical issue in international affairs with comment, discussion and interpretation by BBC correspondents and other current affairs specialists.
Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR †
11.0 Inquiry
Unit 6: The Third Airport 3: Decision
Written by BARRY CARMAN
(for the 15-16 age group) †
11.20 Discovery. Colour and Texture. 3: A scrap of paper by JEREMY NICKLIN
Presented by RICHARD BEBB †
11.40 Contemporary History
7: The Civil Rights Movement in the USA
Written by JEREMY GIBSON
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Rights and Responsibilities
To buy or not to buy: PAMELA DEEDES has some advice for tenants who are given the choice
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 2
with Bernard Miles, Betty Marsden
Written by Harry Ibbetson based on the characters in the Larkin family saga by H.E. Bates
Pop and Ma decide to join the rest of the family at Ramsgate for the Royal opening of the Regatta. But their arrival just ahead of the Royal party produces a most unusual sequence of events.
(Repeated: Saturday, 8.0 pm)
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
A talk by A. C. S. BELL of John Groom 's Association for the Disabled, who make the Alexandra Day roses
Story: A Present for Grandma by CHERRY GREENWOOD
Movement. Mime, and Music 1 for the 7-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 I Know Where I'm Coins
Ends: The last of three programmes on this theme, compiled by STUART EVANS
(Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Going to the Zoo by FLEUR ADCOCK (Nature)
by IVAN BENBROOK with Brian Peck as Icarus Brown
' ... Watching the birds dip and swoop through the afternoon sky and even then wishing to be like them, so totally free. Now look at me, trapped in middle-age with both feet cemented into the ground ... But this time, maybe this time it'll work ... ' Time: about 1900
Produced by BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)
Shirley MacLaine
'I've always felt that I would never develop into a really fine actress because I cared more about life beyond the camera than life in front of it. Over the years my search became broader and broader. I still loved acting and enjoyed it. I was a professional, but basically I was more interested in the people I played than the movies I played them in ...' Shirley MacLaine talks about this philosophy - quoted from her book Don'Fall Off the Mountain - to JEANINE MCMULLEN. Produced by SUSAN ERLBECK †
from the book by OLIVIA MANNING abridged by CHARLES HATTON Part 3
Reader NICOLETTE BERNARD
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Presented by -William Hardcastle and Roger Cook
5.50-6.0 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 by 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 the Northern Ireland Festival
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON
by Robin Houston
'Bitter smell, is it? Wormwood. Mortification, that is. Smells of treachery, does that, a Judas smell... see?'
With Derek Parker
T.C. Worsley talks about Fellow Travellers - his 'memoir of the 30s' and five people who landed up in Spain during the Civil War
Alan Coren reviews Mrs Carteret Receives and other stories by L.P. Hartley
Clancy Sigal looks at Blackburn, the subject of City Close-up by Jeremy Seabrook Alexander Walker reviews the lives and legends of two Hollywood producers - Selznick and Thalberg by Bob Thomas
A professional broadcaster talks on a topic which has caught his attention. Tonight: Ian Mclntyre
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Bhowani Junction by JOHN MASTERS
Read by GARARD GREEN (3)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
