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 John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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 ) "HF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
An attempt to advise on some of the problems of everyday living conducted by Jean Metcalfe with the help of OLGA FRANKLIN , journalist
DR WENDY GREENGROSS , marriage guidance counsellor
DAVID HOBMAN , author of Helping Your Neighbour
DR WILLIAM THOMSON , editor of The Practitioner
In today's programme the experts will be answering questions sent in by listeners, some of whom will be heard putting their problems to the panel. This week's special guest is
Steve Race , who wants help with his problem an inability to remember people's names! Produced by THENA HESHEL
Robert Dougall discusses with 'DEREK JONES his interest in wildlife and its conservation, and chooses some recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives. Produced by JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)
NEM p 54; Give to our God immortal praise (BBC HB 6); Psalm 107, vv 31-42; Luke 3, vv 1-11; Happy are they (BBC HB 274)
Sidney Harrison introduces some easily remembered music played by BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE NONA LIDDELL (Violin)
DAPHNE IBBOTT (piano)
Ten portraits by Julia Small
Narrated and produced by David Davis
'Perhaps there never was a more moral man than Mr Pecksniff: especially in his conversation. He was like the girl in the fairy-tale, except that, if they were not actual diamonds which fell from his lips, they were the very brightest paste.'
Ken Sykora presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
Cosmetic Allergies: does your lipstick bring you out in a rash, or your after-shave produce Spots? FRANCES BERTHELSEN investigates the problem.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 1
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Lucy and the Six Black Cats by ADELINE HESKETH-GIBSON
with the LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by JOHN BARKER and DEREK COLLIER (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
by DAVID GREENWOOD
by SIR WALTER SCOTT abridged in eight parts Read by BRYDEN MURDOCH
' Suspicion is the natural vice of our unsettled times. If I had been disposed to listen to such the other day you, Master, instead of being at freedom would have been in the Castle of Edinburgh.'
5: The Reconciliation
Produced by GORDON EMSLIE
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Roger Cook
5.50-6.0 Regional news. weather and programme .news
with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron Barbara Mullen as Janet Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay For Services Rendered
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
on behalf of the Labour Party
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
Produced by ROY HAYWARD (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Politics is the Art of the Possible. That is what these pages show I have tried to achieve - not more - and that is what I have called my book.
Lord Butler, whose memoirs are published on Monday, talks to ROBERT MCKENZIE about his long career in politics in which 'the possible ' included every office except the highest. with illustrations from the BBC Sound Archives Produced by ANNE DUNCAN-JONES
(The man who is Butler: p 3)
At my very first press conference I said very imperiously and very impatiently that I would like to make this house the best Opera House in the world and I think this is achieved ...
Last Saturday Georg Solti concluded his ten years as musical director of the Royal Opera.
Bernard Levin looks back on the operatic highlights of these ten years, with contributions from GEORG SOLTI and from some of the people who have worked with him at Covent Garden, including:
GERAINT EVANS. PETER HALL
GWYNETH JONES. JAMES MCCRACKEN BIRGIT NILSSON and JOSEPHINE VEASEY
The programme also includes extracts from some of the operas Solti has conducted at Covent Garden, including Der Rosenkavalier, Otello, Tristan und Isolde and Fidelio.
Compiled by PEGGY BRANFORD - Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
(' Opera belongs to the people': page 11)
PAUL VAUGHAN introduces the people who are changing our way of life through their research, discoveries and inventions
Producer ALISTAIR BROWN
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Bhowani Junction by JOHN MASTERS
Read by TONY BRITTON (19)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
