6.27 Farming Week: a regional view of farming in the week ahead, presented today from the South West by DAVID BUTLER
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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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
WILFRID THOMAS introduces stories from the BBC Sound Archives and adds a few of his own.
Ken Sykora. Zena Skinner Vivian Stanshall and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week Producer RICHARD GILBERT
NEM P 1; 0 come, let us sing to the Lord (BBC HB 465); Psalm 3; Luke 7, vv 11-23; Bright the vision that delighted (BBC HB 269)
A miscellany for morning listening
Today: Music from Vienna BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARNIUR LEAVINS conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY and DAVID MCCALLUM (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON Producer JOHN MELOY
by A. PHILIPPA PEARCE abridged for radio in six parts by BERTHA LONSDALE
The big house had no garden - only a paved backyard-but one night when the grandfather clock struck 13, Tom found the hall furnished as it must have been long ago; and opening the back door, he saw a large beautiful garden. 2: Explorations
Reader GEOFFREY BANKS
Producer HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today: Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
Should mortgage interest rates go down? A financial journalist puts the case in favour and a member of the Building Societies Association replies. Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West:
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: The Little Tugboat by JACQUELINE CAIIILL
with the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor iain SUTHERLAND and JACK BRYMER
(clarinet and saxophone) WILFRID PARRY (piano) Producer ALAN OWEN
The novel by TERENCE DE VERE WHITE adapted for radio by ADRIAN VALE
The Scene: Dublin 1900.
GERALD DURRELL'S book about his South American animal collection expedition: abridged and read in four parts by PETER BILLINGSLEY
4: Homeward bound
A final encounter with a cayman. Then it is time to leave South America and ship the collection of 500 animals back to England.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
The news magazine that sums up your day-and starts off your evening.
Including the latest news, the evening press, what's on tonight, the City, and the people and talking points of the day Presented by Robert Williams and Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
with Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips
A chronicle of events aboard HMS Troutbridqe
John Simpson presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A general knowledge contest between schoolchildren in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Wellington team: Alison Miller, Rosalind Salas, Leslie Galler
Question-master Lyell Boyes
Sydney team: Charles Maddison, Igor Nossar, Colleen Guray
Question-master John Dease
(Also broadcast on the networks of ABC Australia, NZBC New Zealand and CBC Canada)
Producers in Wellington Graeme Ross, in Sydney Hal Lashwood
by LILLIAN HELLMAN adapted for radio by GUY VAESEN
' I know every foot of this house. It was the great summer mansion and as kids we were here more than we were at home-The great summer mansion! Did the house change, or me? '
September 1949: the Tuckerman house in a summer resort on the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 miles from New Orleans.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
by JOHN CHRISTOPHER
Read by MICHAEL MCCLAIN (6)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends