6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.51-7.0 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 cot 5
9.40 Today's Papers
by H. K. FLEMING
Read by TONY BRITTON (9)
A Religious Service for Primary Schools
Martha ' by ZOE BAILEY
2: Three deep-water Captains discuss their experiences aboard sailing ships.
(BBC Sound Archive recording)
9.35 Religion: How and Why: Earth, Sky and Seashore
Keith Wilkes talks about how some scientists look at the mystery of the universe.
9.55 Movement and Music 1
by Penny Whittam
NEM p 96; Might and glory (BBC HB 265); Psalm 42; Luke 22 vv 39-53; Ye boundless realms of joy (BBC HB 483)
10.30 La France Aujourd'hul
2: Monsieur Richard ouvre un restaurant
Written by PAULE-ALINE DENT
10.45 Horizons de France 2: Commentaire de Paris Written by ANTOINETTE BERVEILLER (Fifth-year French)
11.0 Time and Tune
The Magic Music Shop - 2 Written and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Man
2: Life in the Sea by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrator BARRY FOSTER
11.40 Geography
Foulness - Britain's future gateway, by PHILIP HOLLANO (' Foulness: the big build-up is the subject of next week's programme in the series This Island Now: Tuesday, 9.30 pm)
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
Arms and Legs to Order: FRANCES BERTHELSEN visits the Roehampton Limb-Fitting Centre Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA; or phone [number removed], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: see cot 5
A panel game
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Lawnmower that was Tired of Mowing by RUTH AINSWORTH
Living Language
The Tale of King Arthur by SIR THOMAS MALORY adapted by SAM LANGDON
Narrator RICHARD HURNDALL
2: The Knight from the Kitchen
2.30 Unos minutos nada mas 2: El boicot
Written by ROBERT p. CLARKE
(For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)‡
2.40 Learning about Life 2: Others
Arranged and introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
Flights of Fancy
But precisely whatt
A magazine of a sort, which takes a quizzical, indulgent, and sometimes ferocious glance at the British way of life-while we still have one. Producer ROBERT CRADOCK
Barchester Towers by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Read by MARTIN FRIEND (9)
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
based on the book by HENRY CECIL starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby in Keeping it Warm
This week's guest star
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questionsf Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
A series of six programmes illustrating the composer's approach to his art as revealed through one of his major works. Introduced by Andrew Faulds 1:Our Glittering PrincessThe writing of Puccini's Turandot
Hour by hour, and minute by minute I think of ' Turandot,' and all the music I've written up to now seems a jest in comparison and pleases me no more. Is it a good signf I think 50. with MICHAEL SPICE as Puccini
Written by MICHAEL Producer
KENNEDY STANLEY WILLIAMSON (from Manchester)
(Elgar - ' Damn Gerontius!
A weeklv review of the arts
Julian Mitchell introduces this first edition, which includes discussion and comment on' Lear: the new Edward Bond play at the Royal Court Theatre, London.
Eduardo Paolozzi: a large-scale exhibition at the Tate Gallery.
The Go-Between : Joseph Losey 's award-winning film
Newcastle Festival: a report. Producers ROSEMARY HART and PHILIP FRENCH
(Radio 4 People: page 5)
Meet the people whose research, discoveries and inventions are changing our way of life and our understanding of the world around us.
Presenter PAUL VAUGHAN
Producer MICHAEL R. BRIGHT
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
JOHN tusa 's five-part series on aspects of Japanese life today. 4:' The Son of Heaven '- in 1946 officially rejected as a title for the man now merely ' His Majesty The Emperor.'
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
Read by EILEEN ATKINS
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends