1.27 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 (7)
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
invites you to join him in a selection of the poetry which has given him and his family great pleasure over the years. His love for the countryside is reflected in this personal choice in which he is assisted by his daughter JILL FLETCHER. Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
NEM p 68; Sing to the Lord (BBC HB 19); Canticle 6, pt 2; Luke 11 vv 14-28; 0 thou who earnest from above (BBC HB 362)
Today: British Light Music
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by TERENCE LOVETT HENRY KREIN AND HIS QUARTET
Introduced by PETER BARKER
with Gerry Marsden
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. Todays main feature: Your Home and Family
Second-best to sex? Fringe activities in the world of soccer have put the game at the top as a selling force for anything from comics to bedspreads to exhibitions. KEN SYKORA reports Other topical items too, and a selection from vour 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
with John Glyn Jones as Grimes, Julia Lockwood as Sally, Bridget Armstrong as Joy, Robert Dorning as Jonathan Porter-Tooth, Bill Wallis as Denton and Douglas Blackwell as everyone else
(Repeated: Thurs, 6.15 pm)
(Robert Dorning is in 'The Great Waltz,' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Little Car Stops by LEILA BERG (The Little Car series)
with the BBC N. Ireland Orchestra conducted by Alun Francis, Edward Darling (tenor) and Ursula Connors (soprano) Wilfrid Parry (piano)
A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 22: Towards a Choice
Roger Quaife speaks out. His enemies begin to gather. Lewis Eliot and Francis Getliffe are suddenly subjected to a rigorous security investigation.
Producer ROGER PINE Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
A serial for radio in six parts by STEWART FARRAR 5:The Challenge
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 ALAN GEMMELL
Producer KENNETH FORD
by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF
Read by DAVID DAVIS 7: Guern the Hunter
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
John Simpson presenting world news and views
Elsie and Doris Waters recall half a century of fun-making from their earliest days up to the present and include an anecdote with brother Jack Warner who also sings! At the piano Geoffrey BRAWN Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
In the last decade new anaesthetics, drugs and surgical techniques have transformed the art of medicine.
A Birmingham surgeon has said that there are children living today who will reach 180. An American company claims that within 50 years It will be marketing a drug which will enable anyone who wishes to live to 120.
What are the facts? In the last 30 years our expectation of life has increased by only two years. But even if scientists succeed in prolonging life, new geriatric procedures will have to be developed to cope with the 'age explosion.'
(Next week: The New Diseases)
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 PURCEI. L
(Postponed from 27 July)
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
An A - Z of South Africa's peoples and problems by ANGUS MCDERMID 2: The Decline of the English-speakers
South Riding by WINIFRED HOLTBY
Read by ANNETTE CROSBIE (2)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
