6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The world this morning 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 col 5
8.40 Today's Papers
by John Wyndham
Read by Gabriel Woolf
Girls! Girls in the passages, girls in the hall, girls racing upstairs and scurrying downstairs, girls diving into dormitories and running into classrooms... everywhere girls!
Angela Brazil (1868-1947) founded and gave her name to a literary genre - the schoolgirl story.
Two devoted admirers. ARTHUR MARSHALL and AMANDA THEUNISSEN, discuss her work and read some passages in which the whole vast panorama of mistresses and girls, with its feuds and dramas and excitements, comes thrillingly to life. Producer PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)
(' Oh God, Nigel the romantic novelists: BBC2 Saturday 7 Aug)
NEM p 54: Praise, my soul (BBC HB 15); Psalm 25, vv 1-10; Luke 10, vv 25-37: Lord of all hopefulness (BBC HB 309)
A miscellany for morning listening
Today: Strings and Voices LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by ERIC WETHERELL LEONARD PEARCEY with DENYS WRIGHT (guitar) ARTHUR WATTS (bass)
Introduced by PETER BARKER
Invented and presented by JEAN MACINTYRE , 13 years FRANCINE BATES , 12 years NILU PATTNAIK, 12 years TESSA STOREY, 11 years PAUL BOROSS , 11 years
Speaking when they're spoken to: Terry Scott David Steel , mp and Dr Maurice Burton The Quest for Salovar A space serial with KERRY FRANCIS and MICHAEL KILGARRIFF Visits to an Adventure Playground and Italia Conti Drama School
Young people from Edinburgh grouse about school; questions about pets are answered; and the team discuss how they would bring themselves up if they were their own parents. Research TONY ASPLER Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT
John Edmunds presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Own Time
A Good Girl's Guide to Self-defence: ANNE NIGHTINGALE investigates the gentle art of avoiding trouble.
And other topical items too. VHF South West: see col 5
starring Kenneth More with Ewan Roberts and Jean Harvey written by JACK ROFFEY
2: By Gas - that's Murder
A wife is found dead in a closed room from coal-gas poisoning- and, for the second time in his career, the husband collects a hefty insurance payment. Coincidence? Or Murder?
Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Trotting Pony Gets Up by MARGARET GORE
with the BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor KENNETH ALWYN
by RVDYARD KIPLING : adapted for radio by A. R. RAWLINSON with Henry Stamper and Barrie Shore
Producer DAVID DAVIS
The game that turns the pages of showbiz history with Florence Desmond David Jacobs , Ben Lyon Michael Pertwee
Chairman Jack Watson Programme devised and compiled by DENIS GiFFORD Producer JOHN DYAS
by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF Read by DAVID DAVIS
5: Marching Orders
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
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
John Simpson presenting world news and views
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON (Shortened version: Sat, 4.30)
Nicholas Parsons takes a look at who's talking and the issues they're talking about, with the help and hindrance of an invited audience at Broadcasting House, London
This week`s special guest:
Patrick Moore and Paul Jennings comments from Unusually Reliable Sources
Producer ANNE DUNCAN-JONES
In the first six months of this year, more than 170,000 people were made redundant. Some communities have been threatened with the loss of their only source of employment
What happens when the local pit or factory closes? How do towns start again, when the headlines and the protest marches have been forgotten? George Scott reports from two northern coastal towns which have already faced this problem.
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Concluding his series of late-night conversations with people who are particularly busy just now looking after or entertaining holidaymakers: Montv gets to know a household name, MIKE ONIONS , the holiday-camp comic,
A Girl Like I by ANITA LOOS Read by TOBY ROBINS
5: The Central of Europe Producer JOHN CARDY
with DENISE COFFEY , JONATHAN CECIL DAVID GOODERSON , DAVID JASON BILL WALLIS and PETER PONTZEN at the piano Written by PETER SPENCE with additional material by DAVID RENWICK
Producer DAVID HATCH
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
