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 Timpsen and Robert Robinson
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
VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
by H. K. FLEMING
Read by TONY BRITTON (5) %
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast) %
9.30 History in Evidence: Roman Britain - 1: Claudius' Triumph in Britain
Written by JEREMY GIBSON
Producer ALAN EREIRA
9.45 Listening and Reading
'The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids' from Grimms Fairy Tales.
Read by ELIZABETH ORNBO
Producer PHILIPPA PEARCE
Poetry Corner
Songs in the Street
NEM p 72; 0 for a heart to praise my' God (BBC HB 334): Psalm 142: Luke 20. vv 27-40; Christian, unflinching stand (BBC HB-350)
10.30 Music Workshop 2
America Latina: a musical exploration by BARBARA KLUGE Music by DORITA Y PEPE Producer
WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry
Unit 1: Waste and Want 1: Poverty
Written by KEITH YEOMANS
Series edited by JACK singleton (For the 15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Human Biology 1: Your Senses by ARTHUR VIALLS
Series producer ARTHUR VIALLS
11.40 Guitar School
Introduced by MICHAEL JESSETT
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Today's main feature: Your Rights and Responsibilities
Widows' Damages: RUPERT TOWNSEND-ROSE talks about a change in the law which removes a long-standing grievance.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see cot 2
Starring 'The Things': Michael Robbins as Dad, Pat Coombs as Mum, Liz Gebhardt 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.
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Pottle Pig goes to Town by NANCY NORTHCOTE
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 for the 7-to-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems A A Bird in the Hand by FREDERICK TREVES
Producer STUART EVANS
2.45 Nature
The Edge of the Sea by CHRISTINE DUDLEY
Athlete by KEITH MILES
Billy Grayston shows unusual promise as a sprinter, but has he the necessary dedication to make it to the top?
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH ‡ (from Birmingham)
A series of three programmes dealing with the use and possible abuse of chemicals in the home.
3: Food Additives
From cow to ketchup, chemicals get added to our food. What is put in - and is it necessary?
GEORGE LUCE investigates.
Producer MICHAEL R. BRIGHT
Barchester Towers by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Read by MARTIN FRIEND (3)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Roger Cook
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The game in which it's better to be wrong than right with John Cleese, William Rushton, Andrée Melly, Anthea Askey, their chairman Clement Freud and this week's special guest Spike Milligan.
Devised by Ian Messiter
Producer Christopher Serle
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With JACKY GILLOTT
Ashtead FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Ashtead in Surrey.
A new play for radio by Robin Houston
This last summer I went back to Townside. In Oxford I'm haunted by Townside and the bogys of the half-finished, abandoned, rusting hulks in the shipyards. It was only the memory of a floppy hat struggling up Reservoir Hill against the smoke sky of Newcastle in the distance that brought me back at all.'
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
with Michael Flanders
JOHN LE CARRE ́ describes his bLack comedy The Naive and Sentimental Lover
MARGARET DRABBLE on other new novels including Mary Mc Carthy 's latest, Birds of America MARY WIMRUSH reads from Vera Inber 's Leningrad Diary and the voice of OGDEN NASH reading from his last book of verse Bed Riddance
Producers JOCELYN FERGUSON and MIRIAM RAPP
Richard MAYNE poses some reassuring questions and suggests some alarming answers. What does make a lady of 80 go out on the loose? And is Catharsis a Greek colonel?
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN abridged by HONOR WYATT
Read by Eileen Atkins
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife; and when the handsome Mr Bingley comes to live at Netherfield Hall Mrs Bennet 's first concern is that he should marry one of her five daughters. His friend Mr Darcv is even more handsome and has flO,000 a year; but she discovers him to be proud and above being pleased by any lady. She quite detests the man.
Producer PATRICIA BRENT (First of 28 instalments)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
