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
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
8.40 Today's Papers
by L. M. MONTGOMERY
Read by ANN MURRAY (12)
James Robertson Justice introduces a selection of readings from books and poems which have influenced and interested him. Recorded at the Little Theatre, Inverness Producer JOHN GRAY
NEM p 47: Come. gracious Spirit heavenly Dove (BBC HB 150): Psalm 126; Luke 18, vv 31-45 Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (BBC HB 508)
Today: British Light Music
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL MOORES jimmy hUGHES (harmonica) HAROLD RICH (piano)
Introduced by PETER BARKER
by KENNETH JOHN with Pat Coombs
Ba Cadbury is an ' average housewife,' mother of an 'average family' of three, and wife to a very average husband, Frank. But behind Mrs Average lurks a panting and vivid imagination, eager to over-react to her son's act of graffiti.
Producer anthony cornish (from Birmingham)
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Home and Family
What Kind of Sixth Form? With more youngsters staying on at school' to take a Sixth Form course, what sort of environment are they looking for? LESLIE SMITH talks to school children, a headmaster and a headmistress,
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see col
based on the book by HENRY CECIL and This week's guest
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 Trundle goes Harvesting by JEAN L. ATKINSON (Trundlf the Tractor series)
with the BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor KENNETH ALWYN IAN WALLACE (bass)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)
A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 26: Responsibility
The trial of Kitty Pateman and Cora Ross
Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
from the novel Inspector West Makes Haste by JOHN CREASEY dramatised as a serial in six parts by MAURICE TRAVERS and 3, A Clue from the Past
visits Sutton Common in Surrey.
The Night of Wenceslas by LIONEL DAVIDSON
Read by JOHN BULL 2: Foreign Courier
Though the latitude's rather uncertain
And the longitude also is vague The persons I pity who don'
. know the city
The beautiful city of Prague '
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
invites you to hear Yarwood Weekly
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With JACKY GILLOTT
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On the eve of the Liberal Party Assembly, ring Robin Day to put your question in person to The Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe, MP, Leader of the Liberal Party, who will reply from Scarborough.
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed] (16 lines) will take them from 5.30 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air.
(Edited version: Wed, 9.35 am)
But why do so many people believe in it?
Jonathan Miller and Derek Parker discuss the pros and cons of belief in Astrology upon the recorded evidence of: JOHN ADDEY , President of the Astrological Association
ROGER ELLIOT , who is a professional astrologer
PROFESSOR MICHEL GAUQUELlN Of the Psycho-physiological Laboratory, Strasbourg University CUARLES HARVEY, Secretary, British Astrological Association
ANN PETRIE , who consults an astrologer regularly both in her work and her private life I became convinced that astro-logers were not simple-minded idiots but were working serious-ly on a quite extraordinary system DEREK PARKER Astrology represents some sort of pathology in modern society, some sort of retreat into what I regard as irrational systems
JONATHAN MILLER
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
A look at the present plight and future shape of town and country: compiled and introduced by Nicholas Taylor Housing: fair deal or raw dealt The Government's recent White Paper is the most radical reconstruction of housing subsidies and rents that has been attempted for a generation. But will the new system actually help those in the greatest need, and will it succeed in breaking down the social barriers which have been made permanent in concrete? Speakers include:
HARRY SIMPSON , Housing Manager. Borough of Lambeth FR PAUL BYRNE. Director, Shelter Housing Advisory Centre FRANK ALLAUN , MP
Producer LEONIE COHN
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
BBC Economics Correspondent DOMINICK HARROD takes a look at the present international currency tangle.
Tonight he discusses with PETER OPPENHEIMER Of Christ Church, Oxford, ways in which the present system can be improved while remaining basically unchanged,
(George) by E. L. KONIGSBURG Read by BLAIN FAIRMAN (5)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
