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 Douglas Cameron
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
Steve Race presents a personal anthology of prose and poetry before an invited audience at Broadcasting House, London. Readers PRUNELLA SCALES , TIMOTHY WEST and STEVE RACE
Producer JOHN POWELL
NEM p 90; The Lord's my Shepherd (BBC HB 480); Fsalm 121; Luke 6, vv 7-26; Snepherd divine (BBC HB 348)
Sidney Harrison introduces some easily remembered music played by BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by Michael MOORES
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (bassoon) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
with Bernard Cribbins
Things to collect, to cook, to grow ... competitions.... jokes ... thrills and spills ... letting off steam ... and the extra-ordinary exploits of Dangerous Dr Macloon.
Producers GILLIAN HUSH and TONY CLIFF
(from Manchester)
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Home and Family
School Holidays - fun or a bore?: MAUREEN O'CONNOR gives some topical suggestions for things to do.
Other topical items too and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA; or phone [number removed], and record your letter)
based on the book by HENRY CECIL with
SEAN ARNOLD , PATRICK TOLL and DOUGLAS BLACKWELL as everyone else
Written by HENRY CECIL and BASIL DAWSON
Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thurs, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Storv: From the top of a Bus. in the Margaret Ellen series by KATHLEEN RAMSAY
with the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by ALUN FRANCIS CHRISTINA CLARKE (soprano) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 18: The Undctachcd
Producer ROGER PINE Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
A serial for radio in six parts by STEWART FARRAR with Martin Jarvis and Patricia Galltmore
'Just think what you have here. Biodar - the first radar in the world, so far as we know, that can pick up sentient life and locate it exactly. It can pin. point a man in thick wood-land.... it can lock on to a hare running across a field ... and male and female can be distinguished with increasing accuracy.'
1: The Black Arc
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
The true story of Voytek, the wartime mascot of 22 Company Polish Army Service Corps
The book by GEOFFREY MORGAN and w. A. LASOCKI adapted as a serial reading in two parts by GEOFFREY MORGAN Read by LeRoy Lingwood 1: Pass the Ammunition
The 22 Transport Company of the Polish 2 Corps was unloading ammunition, and, working with the fatigue party, just like one of the soldiers, was a huge brown bear.... Producer GRAHAM GAULD
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening.
Presented by Robert Williams
, and Roger Cook
; 5.50-6.0 Regional news. weather and programme news
starring
Bill Fraser as Me and Patricia Hayes as The Missus
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
[number removed]
Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to W.O. Campbell Adamson Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry
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.
Producer WALTER WALLICH
Written and introduced by MEl.VYN BRAGG
The third in a new series of programmes on famous outlaw figures.
Robin Hood , Robin Hood , riding through the glen, Robin Hood , Robin Hood , with his band of men. Feared by the bad, Loved by the good,
Robin Hood. Robin Hood ,
Robin Hood (Popular song) with Bernard Bresslaw
Timothy West. Sheila Allen Geoffrey Bayldon and Douglas Blackwell
Songs by ALEX GLASGOW
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
An enquiry by PAUL VAUGHAN
'I think people like to go in for getting rarer exotic pets than anybody else in a sort of stamp-collecting mentality ...' ' There are a tremendous number of diseases which these animals carry ...'
' I am certain they ought to be licensed ...'
you'd be in just as much danger from contracting colds and virus diseases in an overcrowded tube station as you would from the pets at home." Producer ALISTAIR BROWN
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The World in Winter by JOHN CHRISTOPHER
Read by MICHAEL MCCLAIN (2)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends