6.27 Farming Week: a regional view of farming in the week ahead, presented today from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
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 Robert Robinson
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 theMidlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES ) VHF East Anglia: see col
8.40 Today's Papers
They are plants. They stand over seven feet high. They can walk and 'talk' and their sting can kill. When a world-wide disaster disables most of the human race, they seem to sense that their day has come...
The novel by John Wyndham abridged for radio
Read by Gabriel Woolf
(First of 15 instalments, broadcast Mondays-Fridays)
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 41; 0 for a thousand tongues'" (BBC HB 2781; Psalm 32: Luke 9, vv 37-50: My God, my Father (BBC HB 357)
Today: Music from Vienna BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by MARCUS DODS DAVID MCCALLUM (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by PETER BARKER Producer JOHN MELOY
by A. PHILIPPA PEARCE abridged by BERTHA LONSDALE
Tom was fascinated by the way time jumped about during his visits to the Midnight Garden. He and Hatty had a quarrel when each accused the other of being a ghost.
4: The Tree House Brings Disaster
Reader GEOFFREY BANKS
Producer HERBERT SMITH
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today: Your Money
Gamblers Anonymous: DAVID BROWN looks at a cure for one misuse of money.
Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert-Williams
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Storv: Squeaker is lost by KATHLEEN WHITE (Jimmy Woppy and Squeaker series)
with the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND ERIC HOPE (piano)
Producer ALAN OWEN
The celebrated novel about Roman Britain by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF abridged in ten episodes by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN Read by David Davis 1: The Frontier Fort
Sometime about the year 117 AD the Ninth Legion, which was stationed at Eburacum, where York now stands, marched north to deal with a rising of the Caledonian tribes, and was never heard of again. 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
Written by RONNIE TAYLOR
A light-hearted look at life in which Al airs the views of the silent majority on the subject of Summer Holidays
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Prlestland presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Liza Goddard as Victoria, Yootha Joyce as Edna say You want it, we find it in the weekly adventures of an agency with guest artist Deryck Guyler and GERALD CROSS, ERIC FRANCIS. HANNAH GORDON
Script by TERENCE BRADY and CHARLOTTE BINGHAM
Producer JOHN BRIDGES
(Radio Times People: page 4)
A new panel game in which Cyril Fletcher, June Whitfield, Caryl Brahms and Graeme Garden converse in verse with their chairman Gyles Brandreth who devised the game
Poems read by David Brierley
by PETER RUSSELL with Sandor Eles as Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
' The great revolution of modern times in obstetrics as well as in surgery is the result of the one idea that, complete and clear, first arose in the mind of Semmelweis, and was embodied in the practice of which he was the pioneer.'
The action takes place in Vienna and Buda between the years 1836 and 1865. ] Members of the Vienna Medical Faculty, students, nurses, patients and others
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
What's the real person like behind the popular image of the ever-smiling beauty queen, the dashing pilot, the haughty head-waiter, the aristocratic landlord of a stately home or the wise-cracking holiday-camp comic? How do these people, who are particularly busy just now looking after or entertaining holidaymakers, see themselves, their jobs and their public?
To find out Monty Modlyn talks to them in this new series of five late-night conversations starting with BARBARA GILLMAN , the Beauty Queen.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
abridged in five episodes by EILEEN CAPEL from
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by ANITA LOOS with Toby Robins as Lorelei, the girl from Little Rock, Arkansas
1: Fate Keeps on Happening
'Kissing a girl's hand may make her feel very very good, but a diamond and satire bracelet lasts forever.'
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends