6.27 Farming Week: a regional view of farming in the week ahead, presented today from the South West by DAVID BUTLER
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 column 5
8.40 Today's Papers
by L. M. MONTGOMERY
Read by ANN MURRAY (6)
Zena Skinner , Vivian Stanshall and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week Producer RICHARD GILBERT
NEM p 22; Thou art the Way <BBC HB 338); Psalm 27, part 1; Luke 16, vv 10-18; Soldiers of Christ, arise (BBC HB 366)
Today: Music from Vienna
BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Marcus Dods
David McCallum (violin) Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Introduced by Peter Barker
Five stories from the great Russian novelist selected and abridged by H. OLDFIELD BOX Reader Denys Hawthorne 1: Real Hussar Fashion (from Two Hussars)
' ... And in this lively fashion Count Turbin, the hussar, left the town of Kiev for ever.' Producer DAVID A. TURNER
(from Northern Ireland)
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Budget
JEANINE MCMULLEN continues the monthly series in which listeners describe how they cope with the eternal problem of making ends meet.
Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: The Paper Man by SYLVIA RUSSELL
with the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano) Producer ALAN OWEN
by Stanley Middleton
(Saturday's broadcast)
Moonneel by J. MEADE FALKNER : abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT Read by PAUL DOUGLAS
In Mobnfleet on the Dorset coast, in 1758, smuggling is virtually a respectable way of life, though not to the Excise-men....
6: Solving the Cipher
Producer BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening.
Including the latest news. the evening press, what's on tonight, the City, and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by Robert Williams and Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.58-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Written by Ronnie Taylor
A lighthearted look at life in which Al airs the views of the silent majority on the subject of: The Generation Gap
Pianistic reflections by Peter Rostal and Paul Scaefer
Musical illustrations by Max Harris and his Amazing Dance Band
(Sunday's broadcast: R2)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with JACKY GILLOTT
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
(Radio Times People: page 4)
Liza Goddard as Victoria and Yootha Joyce as Edna say You want it, we find it in the weeikly adventures of an agency: with JOHN BADDELEY , GERALD CROSS MARTIN FRIEND, SHEILA GRANT
OLWEN GRIFFITHS , LESLIE HERITAGE MICHAEL KILGARRIFF
CLIFFORD NORGATE , EVA STUART Script by TERENCE BRADY and CHARLOTTE BINGHAM
Producer JOHN BRIDGES
A new panel game in which
Cyril Fletcher , June Whitfield Caryl Brahms and Graeme Garden converse in verse with their chairman Gyles Brandreth who devised the game
Poems read by DAVID BRIERLEY Producer simon BRETT
by RONALD HARWOOD : adapted by the author from his novel with Zakes Mokae Nigel Hawthorne Amelia Bowman Hilda Kriseman Elizabeth Adare
The play takes place In and around Cape Town, South Africa. Time: the present day. George, a young Zulu, is in trouble with the police, his own people and his relatives. He seems to be the victim of some vicious plot - the fates are so often against him. Perhaps he is?
Mrs Sanders. JO MANNING WILSON Producer MARTIN JENKINS
(Nigel Hawthorne is in 'West of Suez ' at the Royal Court; Bloke Modisane. and Zakes Mokae in ' Boesman and Lena ' at the Young Vic; Andrew Sachs in ' A Voyage Round My Father' at the Haymarket Theatre, London) S.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
As the delegates to this year's Tnades Union Congress debate current industrial Droblems.
George Woodcock , cotton-weaver at the age of 12, Oxford graduate, and formerly the tuc's General Secretary, discusses his career in a series of five conversations with PETER JENKINS of The Guardian. Producer MARTIN cox
South Riding by WINIFRED HOLTBY
Read by ANNETTE CROSBIE (16)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends