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
7.40 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
8.46 Today's Papers
by H. K. FLEMING
Read by TONY BRITTON (8)
Up Against It
The camel can endure the heat of the desert and travel across it for many days without water; the emperor penguin survives without food for weeks in the bitter cold of the Antarctic. How do these and other creatures manage to adapt to extreme conditions? Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast) 1
9.30 History in Evidence
Roman Britain - 2: Druids on Anglesey. Written by ALAN EREIRA
9.45 Listening and Reading
Mr Miacca : adapted from Joseph Jacobs 's English Fairy Tales and ' Brother and Sister by Lewis Carroll. Read by JOHN HOLLIS
Poetry Corner: The World Turned Upside Down
NEM p 93; My Lord, my Life, my Love (BBC HB 330): Psalm 119, part 7; Revelation 12, w 7-12; Ye watchers and ye holy ones (BBC HB 288)
10.30 Music Workshop 2
Producer WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry
Unit I: Waste and Want 2: Enough is Enough by ALICK ROWE
Producer DICKON REED (15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery Human Biology
2: Survival of the Fittest by BRIAN GEAR and ARTHUR VIALLS
11.40 Guitar School
3: Written 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
Deposits: What rights do they give you? A barrister explains Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see col
starring ' The Things' with A weekly, fearless, down-to-earth report on Britain today through the eyes of yer typical average listening family. 4: Politics 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: Kurlie Kitten 's Curious Morning by RUTH c. PAINE
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 for the 7-to-9-yearolds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
' Rosie ': an original story by DOROTHY BAKER read by SHIRLEY DIXON
2.45 Nature
The Moon and the Tides by ARTHUR VIALLS
Open Verdict by LESTER POWELL with Eric Allen and Charles Simon 'At Ashminster today, an open verdict was returned at the inquest on Joan Kendal , the 19-year-old student who was found in the River Ash on Tuesday. It is understood that police are continuing their enquiries ... '
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
A monthly programme reflecting life in the country, with a natural history contribution by ERIC SIMMS
Introduced by c. GORDON GLOVER Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
Barchester Towers by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Read by MARTIN FRIEND (8)
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
Problems from listeners' letters discussed by Renée
Houston Eleanor Summerfield Josephine Douglas Debbie Bowen
In the chair Anona Winn
They don'claim to know everything - but the ladies of Petticoat Line guarantee common sense, good humour, and above all the feminine point of view in their answers to your letters.
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm) (Radio 4 People: page 5)
Gerald Priesthind presenting world news and views With JACKY GILLOTT
Ebbw Vale
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Ebbw Vale in Monmouthshire
Producer STEPHEN WILLIAMS
(Sunday's broadcast extended) The Bourne district of Lincolnshire
Flights of Fancy by EDWARD HEAD with Bruce Beeby and Jo Manning Wilson
Arthur would have been hurt if you called him a liar, but there was no doubt that he did enjoy telling innocent fairy stories. Lies? Well - let's call them nights of fancy ...
Producer BETTY DAVIES
with Michael Flanders
EILEEN O'CASEY talks about her biography of her husband,
Sean JOEL HURSTFIELD on Henry Vlll and his Court by Neville Wil liams and two other biographies of Bluff
King Hal PHILIP OAKES reviews Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a history of the Indians of the American West
MARGARET DRABBLE on new novels
Producers JOCELYN FERGUSON MIRIAM RAPP
from Chaucer to Yeats
An anthology in 26 programmes introduced oy two contemporary poets in mid-career, Anthony Thwalte and Peter Porter
There will be no attempt to make the series academic. authoritative or even comprehensive. The hosts will be enthusiastic and opinionated: some of their personal favourites will get more extensive treatment: some poets they don'much care for will be more summarily dismissed.
At the same time, this series is a serious attempt to give the listener a sense of the range and development of English poetry over 500 years.
1: Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) Introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE Reader GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
JOHN TUSA 's five-part series on aspects of Japanese life today. 3:The Ritual Death of Yukio Mishima
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
Read by EILEEN ATKINS (6)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
