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 John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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
by JOHN WYNDHAM
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (2)
' I was born in the Edwardian era, and I like to say I march with the century. It's not strictly true, but it has a nice sound and is near enough to the truth.'
In a personal anthology of poetry and prose, given before an invited audience at the Playhouse Theatre in London, Max Adrian recalls his childhood in Ireland.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
NEM p 44; Come down, 0 Love divine <BBC HB 149): Psalm 86; Luke 9, vv 51-62; 0 God, whose will is life and good (BBC HB 381)
A miscellany for morning listening
Today: British Light Music
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL MOORES ROBERT DOCKER (piano)
Introduced by PETER BARKER
with Ken Campbell
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)
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Today: Your Home and Family The Misgivings of Moving: difficulties arising out of moving into a new environment can be unexpected hazards for some. NIGEL MURPHY reports, Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA; or phone [number removed] and record your letter)
VHF South West: see column 1
based on the book by HENRY CECIL starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby in Polite Notice with JOHN GLYN JONES as Grimes JULIA LOCKWOOD as Sally BRIDGET ARMSTRONG as Joy DAVID JASON as Bannister GERALD CROSS as the Judge and SEAN ARNOLD and DOUGLAS BLACKWELL as everyone else
Written by HENRY CECIL and BASIL DAWSON
Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thurs, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Catkin by KATHLEEN WHITE (Jimmy Woppy and Squeaker series)
with the BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor KENNETH ALWYN ERIC HOPE (piano)
A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 21: The Next Thing
1956. Roger Quaife , now a Cabinet Minister, begins to calculate and arrange the balance of opinion for and against his undeclared nuclear policy.
Producer ROGER PINE Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
4: Black Midsummer
A year of Gardeners' Question Time
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recalls some of the places visited and some of the questions asked during the past year
With FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Producer KENNETH FORD
by Rosemary Sutcliff
Read by David Davis
Marcus Flavius Aquila, a young Roman centurion, has come to Britain in the second century AD to take over his first command and to solve a mystery.
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
starring Bill Fraser as Me
Patricia Hayes as the Missus ‡
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
The Sage of Knotty Ash
You know the singer; you roar at the comic. But are you ready for a lesson from Ken Dodd, Professor Extraordinary of the theory and history of humour? And have you met the man behind the comedian? Arranged and presented by FRANK DIXON
Additional research AUDREY KAYE Producer HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)
(Repeated: Friday, 9.5 am)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
While the domestic debate goes on, the fourth programme in this special occasional series looks at the kind of Europe the Government wants us to join. Are us insititutions bureaucratic or democratic? What is the role of the European Parliament, and what should its role be?
If Britain were to join the Common Market, what would happen to the European Free Trade Association? And do the Terms give adequate protection to our Commonwealth trading partners?
Presented by Alan Watson Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
HUGH PURCELL and MARTIN COX
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Continuing his series of midsummer conversations with people who are particularly busy just now looking after or entertaining holidaymakers, Monty talks to CAPTAIN ADRIAN Ross, Senior Pilot of BUA.
by Anita Loos
Read by Toby Robins
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
