6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
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
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
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 below
8.49 Today's Papers
by L. M. MONTGOMERY
Read by ANN MURRAY (5)
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
David Dunhill presents a personal view of Dartmoor
(From the BBC World Service)
NEM p 15; Praise to the Holiest (BBC HB 88); Psalm 111; Luke 15, vv 11-32; The Church of God (BBC HB 183)
A miscellany for morning listening
Today: Strings and Voices LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by TERENCE LOVETT DORITA Y PEPE
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
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: Arthur Lowe , Michael Aspel and Dr Maurice Burton
The Quest for Salovar: a space serial with KERRY FRANCIS and MICHAEL KILGARRIFF
A visit to Southend-on-Sea Research TONY ASPLER Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT
Jeanine McMullen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Own Time
'Hop Inn for a quick one : study of pub signs can be a fascinating hobby. KEN SYKORA explains,
And other topical items too VHF South West: see col
Written by Jack Roffey
Starring Kenneth More
with Ewan Roberts and Jean Harvey
In times of pressure, a Queen's Counsel can sit on the Judge's Bench as a Special Commissioner. When Simon Crawford does so, and his junior Sheila Larkin appears before him with an ill-prepared brief, he cannot resist the temptation to make her hop about a bit.
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: Teddy and the Bumpy Bus by MARY STONEVALE
with the BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor KENNETH ALWYN THE KING'S SINGERS
Selected for Friday The Yalu Flows by MIROK LI : the story of a Korean childhood translated and adapted for radio by HANNS HAMMELMANN
Other parts NIGEL ANTHONY PRESTON LOCKWOOD
DENIS MCCARTHY , MICHAEL MCCLAIN HUMPHREY MORTON , JONATHAN SCOTT and HENRY STAMPER
Producer DOROTHY BAKER
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.
The game that turns the pages of showbiz history with Jean Metcalfe , Jimmy Wheeler Douglas Byng, John Benson Chairman Jack Watson Programme devised and compiled by DENIS GIFFORD Producer JOHN DYAS
Moonfleet by J. MEADE FALKNER
Read by PAUL DOUGLAS 5: The Perilous Climb
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Roger Cook
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
(Your invitation to the wedding of the year: pages 52-55)
Chris Underwood presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON (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 casting a personal eye over the events of the last week is Kenny Lynch and Alan Coren comments from Unusually Reliable Sources
Producer ANNE DUNCAN-JONES
The Government's Family Income Supplement, designed specifically to help the poorest families, came into force a month ago. It should ease the financial burden for some. But what effect will it have on the many families where it is often impossible to isolate the lack of money from a number of other probleme?
Are extra benefits or a minimum wage the solution, or will families continue to need the support of the social agencies?
Families in the North talk about the way poverty affects their lives and the strains it puts on relationships at home and outside the family unit. Presented by Brian Morris Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
ANTHONY LAWRENCE 'S impressions of Chinese life after 15 years as the BBC's Far East correspondent
5: Musical Sounds and Voices
South Riding by WINIFRED HOLTBY
Read by ANNETTE CROSBIE (15)
University Revue at this year's Edinburgh Festival
Cambridge University Theatre Group presents
The Footlights Revue: Lot '71 with SARAH DUNANT , ADRIAN EDWARDS JOHN PARRY , ROBERT ROWE
STEVE THORN , PAUL WOLFSON
Musical director ROB ORLEDGE Producer JOHN CASSELS
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
