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 anvwhere 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 below
8.41 Today'* Papers
by L. M. MONTGOMERY
Read by ANN MURRAY (8)
Talking Point: reflecting listeners' queries and comments on wildlife and the countryside. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: Sunday's broadcast) Questions to Talking Point, The Living World, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
to Alfred Allen , General Secretary of USDAW, and Jack Jones , General Secretary of TGWU, with ROBIN DAY in the chair
(Shortened version of Tuesday's broadcast)
NEM p 29; Jesus, stand among us (BBC HB 262): Psalm 57: Luke 17. vv 1-10: God liveth still (BBC HB 513)
Today: Music Sets the Scene BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by ALUN FRANCIS BBC CHORUS conducted by JOHN POOLE
Introduced by PETER BARKER
3: Levin's Wedding
(from Anna Kareninal
ReaderDENYS HAWTHORNE
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Today's features: Your Rights and Responsibilities
Do you know what you can claim for under your Insurance policies? JOHN R. SMITH , an insurance expert, may surprise you.
The Lollipop Men: how safe is your child's journey to school? ELIZABETH MITCHELL looks at the position in the light of two recent cases,
Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see cot 1
starring ' The Things '
Michael Robbins as Dad Pat Coombs as Mum Liz Gcbhardt as Beryl Frank Abbott as Len with Ronald Fletcher as Himself
A weekly, fearless, down-to-earth report on Britain today through the eyes of yer typical average listening family. 1: The Family an' that Written by TONY BILBOW and MIKE FENTIMAN Producer MARTIN FISHER
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: My Naughty Little Sister is a Curly Girl by DOROTHY EDWARDS
with the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Henry V in Two Parts by HOWARD BARKER with Anthony Haygarth and Dinsdale Landen
For the first time (in unique monophonic sound) - the true story of the glory and the splendour, the pain and the passion of the Battle of Agincourt. Hear thousands die in an orgy of patriotic fervour-learn how the English carved their name in the Annals of History.
Additional dialogue by W. SHAKESPEARE
A COLIN P. TUCKER production
A series of three programmes dealing with the use and possible abuse of chemicals in the home.
1: Internal Pollution -Medicines A little of what you fancy.... but does it do you good? What happens to medicines when they're inside our bodies? Are we internally polluting ourselves?
GEORGE LUCE investigates.
Producer MICHAEL R. BRIGHT
Moonfleet
Read by PAUL DOUGLAS
8: Blackbeard's Diamond
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
The game in which it's better to be wrong than right.
John Cleese, Pete Murray, Sheila Hancock, Andrée Melly, their chairman Clement Freud and this week's special guest Patrick Moore.
When Clement Freud asks a question the chances are that the outrageously wrong answer will score more points than the right one. You may also find out something you didn't know about Patrick Moore.
Devised by Ian Messiter
Producer Christopher Serle
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with JACKY GiLLOTr
Trumpington FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Trumpington in Cambridgeshire
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
Top Man by PHILIP BARKER with Robert Keegan and Robin Ellis
To most of us the idea of being a spiderman is frightening enough, but what happens when one of them loses his nerve?
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
JULIAN SYMONS and H. R. F. KEATING exchange views on favourite fictional detectives and reveal where they've caught them out
CAMPS, ALAN MELVILLE and ANDREW SALKEY discuss their own choice of books which include Nancy Mitford s biography Mme de Pompadour and a look at one of the oldest books in paperback. Homer's Odyssey. written 3,000 years ago and in E. V. Rieu's 1946 translation a modern best-seller.
Presented by ALAN HAYDOCK † (Repeated: Thurs, 3.45 pm)
... by a distant prospect of the Great Gear Trading Company. Shops and shoppers-are they becoming alienated? Or is it all in the mind of ROBERT ROBINSON ?
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The third of five programmes in which GEORCE WOODCOCK. former General Secretary of the TUC, discusses his career and the political and industrial leaders he has known, with PETER JENKINS.
(George) by E. L. KONIGSBURG : abridged and read by Blain Fairman
Benjamin Dickinson Carr would be a perfectly ordinary boy but for George. George is the little man who lives inside Ben and helps Ben with his biology lessons. Ben has good reason to be very grateful to George. And so. in view of what happens. have others ... Producer JOHN CARDY
(First of ten instalments)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
