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 Robert Robinson and Douglas Cameron
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought tor 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 col 5
8.40 Today's Papers
Have you an infirm parent to care for? Have you a flatmate you would like to ease out without causing offence? Are you an incipient kleptomaniac? Or are you - like this week's special guest Alan Melville - very impulsive? These are the problems discussed today.
In the chair Jean Metcalfe
On the panel: Dr Wendy Greengross, marriage guidance counsellor; Olga Franklin, journalist; Dr William Thomson, editor of The Practitioner; David Hobman, director of the National Old Peoples Welfare Council.
Cyril Fletcher discusses with DEREK JONES his love of the countryside and illustrates it with recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives
Producers MICHAEL BOWEN and JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)
NEM p 96; Thy hand, 0 God (BBC HB 187); Psalm 82: John 20, vv 1-2. 9-18: 0 Spirit of the living God (BBC HB 159)
Sidney Harrison introduces some easily remembered music played by BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by STEWART KERSHAW RAYMOND COHEN (violin)
A thriller by HENRY TREECE adapted in seven episodes by DONALD BANCROFT
1: Green Telephone
Gordon Stewart decides to leave the department of internal security - but is forestalled by an unexpected death. Read by Eric Lander
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
in Westminster Abtey for the Life and Work of John Charles Walsham Reith
1889-1971
Order of Service: Croft Sentences
Psalm 121, Metrical version: I to the hills will lift mine eyes First Lesson: Wisdom 1, w 1-7: read by The Rev Murray Leishman Tribute in music by the BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Address by The Rt Rev A. Berron , Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Choir and Orchestra: Faure In Paradisum
Second Lesson: Philippians 4, vv 4-9: read by Charles Curran , Director-General of the BBC Prayers
Psalm 23, Metrical version: The Lord is my Shepherd Blessing
WESTMINSTER ABBEY CHOIR
Master of the Choristers and Organist DOUGLAS GUEST BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOUI. Scene described by JOHN SNAGGE
12.45* Interlude: records
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Story: The Tractor that got Stuck by JOYCE STRANGER
with the LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by LOU WHITESON and CHRISTINA CLARKE (soprano) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
by R. D. WINGFIELD
1 As we've said sir, reasons are rarely adequate when we try to explain them to other people.'
Presented by PHILIP OAKES
by SIR WALTER SCOTT abridged in eight parts Read by BRYDEN MUROOCH
'My Lord. I am greatly surprised at the connexions you have been pleased to form during my absence. Now kindly decide what you are going to do. For. if Ravens-wood does not quit this house, I will.'
7: The Return of Lady Ashton Producer GORDON EMSLIE
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
based on the book by HENRY CECIL starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby in Tell 'em the Tale
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cyril Fletcher in the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY Special guest Sheila Hancock (Saturdays broadcast)
Introduced by Ian McIntyre
Does it exist? What is it? Where is it? Is it a step forward? Is it a step back? discussed by
KENNETH GREET, Secretary of the Methodist Conference
GILLIAN REYNOLDS , journalist and Liverpool housewife
ANTHONY STORR , psychiatrist
Evidence on The case against licence: THE BISHOP OF COVENTRY
The cast for freedom:
DR PHILIP CAUTHERY, joint director with Dr Martin Cole of the Institute for Sex Education and Research
Permissiveness and the Law
Michael ZANDER, legal correspondent of The Guardian
Parental authority, sexual freedom and all that:
RITA DANDO talking to girls and boys in a New Town
IAN MCINTYRE talking to families in Tannochbrae
Dress: JANEY IRONSIDE
Freedom of Expression:
TOM MASCHLER, chairman of Jonathan Cape
BACHOO SEN, film distributor and producer of Loving Feeling and To Rio for Love
Producer RICHARD KEEN
Meet the people whose research, discoveries and inventions are changing our way of life and our understanding of the world around us.
Presenter PAUL VAUCHAN
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 (4)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
