6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6. 50-7. 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 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 col 5
8.40 Today's Papers
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
presents her personal choice of poetry and prose before an invited audience.
She is joined in the studio by Dame Sybil Thorndike and John Casson, who read some of the pieces for her
NEM p 4; Let all the world (BBC HB 2751: Psalm 19, vv 1-11; Luke 7, vv 24-35; Sing praise to God (BBC HB 18)
A miscellany for morning listening
Today: British Light Music
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL MOORES JIMMY HUGHES (harmonica) HAROLD RICH (piano)
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
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)
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Home and Family
What makes a happy home? Your environment, or your attitude tO life? MICHAEL FREEDLAND investigates
Other topical items too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5
based on the book by HENRY CECIL starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby in Statistics with TERENCE ALEXANDER as Henry Blagrove
JULIA LOCKWOOD as Sally
BRIDGET ARMSTRONG as Joy MALCOLM HAYES as the Racing Commentator MICHAEL KILGARRIFF as everyone else
This week's guest stars:
John Le Mesurier as the Judge and Richard Wattis as Trent Written by HENRY CECIL and BASIL DAWSON
Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thurs, 6.15 pm) (Terence Alexander is in ' Move Over Mrs Markham' at the Vaudeville Theatre. London)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Dog Toffy learns a trick by FLORENCE POOLE
with the BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor KENNETH ALWYN JACK BRYMER
(clarinet and saxophone) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 19: Homecoming. 1947 and later.
Producer ROGER PINE , Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
A serial for radio in six parts by STEWART FARRAR
2: White Against Black
Members of the Smithdon Group of Women's Institutes, Hunstanton, put their questions to:
FRED LOADS , BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL Question-master
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN Producer
KENNETH FORD
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 2: Under Fire
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
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
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John Simpson presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
Will Fyffe
Memories of one of Scotland's greatest character comedians recalled by HOWARD LOCKHART and illustrated by his gramophone records.
Producer EDDIE FRASER (from Scotland)
(Repeated: Friday, 9.5 am)
A series of six programmes showing how new anaesthetics, drugs and surgical techniques have transformed the art of medicine during the last decade.
Most of us will certainly spend several weeks of our lives in hospital in varying degrees of discomfort and apprehension. One middle-aged housewife and mother entered a North Country hospital for a major operation. This is how she faced up to the experience and what happened to her.
Compiled and narrated by TONY VAN DEN BERGH
Producer ALAN BURGESS
Ron Bailey - the Squatters
Peter Hain-the Young Liberals Juliet Mitchell - Women's Lib Richard Neville - Oz and Ink
To many they share the same notorious public image; together their extreme views range over a wide area of contemporary life.
With Kenneth Allsop they outline their own ideas and argue each others. What will emerge? Perhaps a radical philosophy, perhaps a state of anarchy. Producer HUGH PURCELL
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The World in Winter by JOHN CHRISTOPHER
Read by MICHAEL MCCLAIN (7)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
