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 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
The Super-Pest
Few creatures are more universally hated than the rat, yet it can rely on man for food and shelter. Rats are widely used in medical research, but the diseases they carry have killed millions of human beings.
It's a great success story-from the rat's point of view! Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
Robin Day presents highlights from Radio 4's weekly telephone series It's Your Line. Today's edition features past 5uests:
James Callaghan , mp
Enoch Powell , mp
Geoffrey Rippon , mp Dr Ralf Dahrendorf Michael Foot, mp
Producer WALTER WALLICH
NEM p 7; Immortal, invisible (BBC HB 10): Canticle 6, part 1; Luke 7, vv 36-50; My soul, praise the Lord! (BBC HB 463)
A miscellany for morning listening
Today: Music Sets the Scene BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON VALERIE TRYON (piano)
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
Send us those science questions your parents stumble over. Paddy Feeny will be phoning the lucky ones and putting them on the line to the panel of resident scientists.
You can talk to Patrick Moore about space travel and astronomy, and to Professor Richard Gregory about inventions and how the brain works.
This week's guest is Professor Eric Laithwaite , who will answer questions about highspeed transport, electric motors, magnets and engineering. HaVe fun trying out for yourself ARTHUR GARRATT 'S experiments in the second instalment of ' You and Your Senses.'
If you would like a chance to talk on the telephone to the experts, send your question on a postcard, giving your name, age and telephone number to: Dial a Scientist. BBC. Broadcasting House. London WIA 1AA Producer ALISTAIR BROWN
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Rights and Responsibilities
Lost Documents: what can be done about them? Some advice from LAURIE SAPPER
Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see col 2
by R. D. WINGFIELD with Kenneth Williams RICHARD CALDICOT as Sir Charles Prattle
JOSEPHINE TEWSON as Maisie CAROLINE HLAKISTON as MiSS GibbS and LESLIE HERITAGE as Tomkins with GRAHAM STARK as the Armourer Chapter 3: Harem Nights Other parts: EVA HADDON
RONALD HERDMAN , HAROLD KASKET JON ROLLASON , JOANNA WAKE and JO MANNING WILSON
Scripts edited by GERRY JONES Producer KEITH WILLIAMS
(Kenneth Williams is in ' Captain Brassbound's Conversion' at the Cambridge Theatre, London; Richard Caldicot in ' No Sex, Please - We're British ' at the Strand Theatre)
12.55 Weather; programmenews
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Boasting Whistling Kettle by I. w. ROBERTS
with the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND JACK BRYMER
(clarinet and saxophone) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
A play for radio by DAVID WADE with William Fox
' You see, Edwards, my organisation is retained by some, if not all of the country's industrial leaders to find what they in their simple-minded way are pleased to call " men of outstanding ability," men, that is, dedicated to the job in hand with no other thought than to live it, eat it, sleep it.'
Producer DAVID h. GODFREY
A monthly programme reflecting life in the country, with a natural history contribution by ERIC SIMMS
Introduced by C. GORDON GLOVER Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
by KEITH DARVILL adapted from JOHN COLEMAN 'S 50 Years of an Actor's Life with Timothy West as John Coleman
' Some of these young actors have not, I'm afraid, the same spirit as we of the old brigade - too pretty, lisping hawthorne buds. cricket and Oxford degrees. But I am grateful for their loyal assistance in making the project for long so dear to my heart such an outstanding success. The climax of one life's devotion to the traditions of the art It loves. The rest is silence.,
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
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
ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair Producer BOBBY JAYE
Gerald Priestiand presenting world news and views
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the Callander and Doune districts.
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
Next week; The Royal National Rose Society, St Albans
by SAMUEL SELVON with Jan Edwards and Rudolph Walker
Things are not always what they seem ...
Producer BETTY DAVIES
Presented by JOHN DONAT , who makes a personal choice and introduces
MICHAEL PODRO on The Sovereignty of Good, three essays by Iris Murdoch , and PHILIP STEADMAN on Circle, edited by J. L. Martin , Ben Nicholson and Naom Gabo. and Architecture 2000 by Charles Jencks. DAVID PIPER and LIONEL MARCH discuss with JOHN DONAT some favourite books available between soft covers
Producer LEONIE COHN
MARGARET DRABBLE talks about the predicament of people with speech impediments whose careers nonetheless require them to speak in public.
The speaker herself, a well-known novelist and broadcaster, has an intermittent speech impediment,
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The World in Winter by JOHN CHRISTOPHER
Read by MICHAEL MCCLAIN (8)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
