6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
7.48 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 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 L. M. MONTGOMERY
Read by ANN MURRAY (2)
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
Yehudi Menuhin takes time off while at the Edinburgh International Festival to introduce a selection of readings from books and poems which have influenced and interested him.
NEM p 4; The God of Abraham praise (BBC HB 283); Psalm 47; Luke 14, 'vv 15-24; Thou, whose almighty word (BBC HB 185)
Today: British Light Music
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by TERENCE LOVETT PEARL FAWCETT (accordion)
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON Producer JOHN MELOY
wHh 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)
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Home and Family
Are you a godparent? What do you consider are your duties and responsibilities? BRYON QUIGLEY finds some of the answers,
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5
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, William Fox, Garard Green and Peter Tuddenham as everyone else. This week's guest Brian Oulton as the Judge.
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: Mary Ellan Needs Help by CHERRY C. MANN
with the BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON THE KING'S SINGERS
Producer ALAN OWEN
A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 24: Arrests of Life - 1963
Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
1: Old Coppers never die
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 J. Meade Falkner
Read by Paul Douglas
Rumblings in the vault of the Mohunes under the church have pricked the curiosity of John Trenchard, who determines to find out if the stories of treasure are true...
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Roger Cook
17.50-18.00 Regional news, weather and programme news
invites you to hear Yarwood Weekly
John Simpson presenting world news and views
Morecambe and Wise Two of a Kind
The story of the tall one with glasses, and the other chap with short fat hairy legs. Arranged and presented by FRANK DIXON
Additional research AUDREY KAYE Producer HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)
(Repeated: Friday, 9.5 am)†
6: The Faces of a Surgeon
In the last decade new anaesthetics. drugs and surgical techniques have transformed the art of medicine.
This surgeon works in a north-country hospital. TONY VAN DEN
-BERGH accompanies him on his rounds of wards, his outpatients department, his lectures to students, and follows him into the operating theatre. (This programme was the BBC's documentary entry for the 1969 Italia Prize)
Producer ALAN BURGESS
re the TUC and y Conferences inify the domestic bate on the Common Market, the fifth programme in this special series takes a wider world view of our proposed entry into an enlarged community.
PROFESSOR RICHARD COOPER of Yale University, Economic Adviser to President Nixon, and CHRISTOPHER LAYTON , Director of Centre of European Industrial Studies, Bath University, discuss a recent recorded speech by Senator Hubert Humphrey which strongly criticises EEC trade policy from an American viewpoint.
How does the Soviet bloc regard the EEC and our application for membership? And what effect will it have on East-West relations in Europe? In addition, the programme examines an emotive subject which could directly affect the lives of many of us - the free movement of labour between member countries.
Presented by Thomas Barman Producer HUGH PURCELL
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
ANTHONY LAWRENCE 'S impressions of the Chinese people after 15 years as the BBC's Far East correspondent
2: Mao Tse-tung - the last Great Man
South Riding by WINIFRED HOLTBY
Read by ANNETTE CROSBIE (12)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
