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
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News Staff .
Religious Service for Primary Schools
The Lord's Prayer by MARGARET E. ROSE
8: Thine is the Kingdom
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Movement -and Music 2 for the 6-7-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
NEM p 4; All people that on earth do dwell (BBC HB 450); Psalm 96; Acts 10, vv 17-32; Thou whose almighty word tBBC HB 185)
IGOR KIPNIS recalls the career of his father, the celebrated Russian bass.
Movement and Music I by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.29 Club programme
Presented by GARY TAYLOR (Music Club)
IAN GRIMBLE considers the changing attitudes towards safety and danger and talks about the village community in the North of Scotland where he spent his early years,
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Home and Family
Reading for the under-fives. CHRISTOPHER JARMAN, a primary-school headmaster, recently placed a notice in a national newspaper asking to hear from parents who taught their children to read before they began school. He talks to JOAN YORKE about the many revealing answers he received.
Other topical items too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see col
with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron
Beware of the Dog: written and adapted by STEWART FARRAR
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE (Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Charles is cross by RUTH AINSWORTH
Spacemen: illustrated talk by PATRICK MOORE. (World History)
2.20 The Beggar's Opera: with boys of St Michael's College. Tenbury. (Music Session)
Tom Harrisson, co-founder with Charles Madge of Mass Observation, parachuted into Borneo in 1945 to help organise resistance against the Japanese. He stayed as Curator of the Sarawak Museum and government ethnologist until the mid-60s. Anthropologist, zoologist, author, academic, he is still living a full life working in two universities and commuting between America, Europe and Asia.
He talks to DEREK COOPER.
Produced by SUSAN ERLBECK (Repeated: Friday, 9.25 am)
A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 14 War. The early years. Lewis Eliot , now a temporary civil servant in Whitehall, begins to select men for the new atomic research centre at Barford.
Produced by ROGER PINE Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
The novel by GAVIN LYALL adapted as an eight-part serial by BETTY DAVIES with Edward Woodward and Toby Robins Part 5: Elizabeth
In which Bert Kemp finds an old gun - and a new friend.
A series of short stories by ARNOLD BENNETT adapted by BARRY CAMPBELL 5: The Long-lost Uncle
' ... One of those family histories embedded in the grey soil of the past like lumps of quartz veined and streaked with the precious metal of passion and glittering with crystallizations of scandal.' Reader ARNOLD PETERS
Produced by JAMES DUCKETT (from Birmingham)
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
Jimmy Clitheroe in Gone Fishing with PETER SINCLAIR
PATRICIA BURKE , DANNY ROSS DIANA DAY, TONY MELODY
BRIAN TRUEMAN , COLIN EDWYNN Written by JAMES CASEY and FRANK ROSCOE
Produced by JAMES CASEY
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
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At the beginning of Wimbledon fortnight, ring Robin Day to put your questions on tennis to
Fred Perry
Wimbledon Champion 1934-36
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed](12 lines) will take them from 6.30 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air.
Produced by WALTER WALLICH
An account of the life ot William Crockford (1775-1844) founder of the gambling club, fishmonger's son and millionaire, who beggared half the aristocracy of England and became known as 'the father of hell and hazard.'
Written by Barry Campbell
The Boys of Coventry Cathedral Choir
Since its inauguration nine years ago Coventry Cathedral has often done traditional things in new ways. Its choir - with boys drawn from all social classes and attending a local day school - is one example.
SUSAN HILL presents a portrait of the boys, their choirmaster DAVID LEPINE , and the exacting but exciting work that they do together.
Produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN i
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Bhowani Junction by JOHN MASTERS
Read by MIRIAM MARGOLYES (7)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
