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 Douglas Cameron
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.56-8.0 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 byCLIVECUNNINGHAM)
VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
bVH.K.FLEMING‡
Read by TONY BRITTON (13) *
Talking point ,
(Shortened version of Sunday's s broadcast) ‡
9.30 History in Evidence
Roman Britain 3: Polyclitus investigation of Suetonius Paulinus.
Written by JEREMY GIBSON
8.45 Listening and Reading
Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse by URSULA MORAY WILLIAMS - 1
Read by PETER PACEY
Poetry Corner
Little King Pippin
NEMp 7; 0 greatly Messed the people are (BBC HB 469); Psalm 65; Luke 23, vv 44-56; Sing to the Lord of harvest (BBC HB 442)
10.30 Music Workshop 2
Producer WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry
Unit I: Waste and Want 3: Use and Abuse by LAURIE JOHN
(15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Human Biology 3: The Starving Millions
11.40 Guitar School
5. Producer DOUGLAS COOMBES
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Rights and Responsibilities
On the Statute Book: RUPERT TOWNSHEND-ROSE talks about the Animals Act 1971 which came into force this month,
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 WIA 1AA; or phone [number removed], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: see col 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. 5: Class 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 Robert Williams
Story: The Little Fairy Shoe maker by ELIZABETH FERRIER 1
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music I
for the 7-to-9-year-olds by James Dodding
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
'The Stone Thrower' by Douglas Dunn
Read by David Brierley
2.45 Nature: Sea Mammals
by Lesley Gould
(Radiovision)
Give Me One More Summer by JOAN TIMOTHY
Stephen and Anne's children are growing up and leaving home - it's a common enough happening. But one child hasn'grown up, though he is no longer at home.
Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Caroline Hunt is a National Theatre player)
P. G. Wodehouse celebrates his 90th birthday on 15 October with yet another instalment of the adventures of Bertie Wooster called Much Obliged, Jeeves.
Sam Pollock presents a radio tribute to one of the best-loved of English comic writers and recalls some of the highlights of his long and varied literary life. from his early success in the world of musical comedy to his continuing career as a novelist, with Kingsley Amis, Richard Usborne and, from BBC Sound Archives, extracts from a broadcast talk by Evelyn Waugh.
Atlantic Rendezvous by WILLIAM MURRAY
Read by ALAN MOORE 3: In the Bag
The news magazine that sums up your day and starts off your evening. Presented by Robert Williams and Steve Race
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Problems from listeners' letters discussed by Renee Houston Juno Alexander , Nancy Wise Anna Coote
In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
† (Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday. 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland. from the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, presents world news and views with JACKY GiLLOTT in London
Bourne: FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the Bourne district of Lincolnshire
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
(Sunday' broadcast extended) Rubery, Worcs
The Food of Hate by MALCOLM HAZELL
' Look, Mr Finnegan. My boy Brian is going to learn the cornet. I have made the decision. In my own house. About my own son. He will have 40 minutes' practice a day. No more, no less. If others don'like it, they can lump it.'
Producer BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
with Michael Flanders
DESMOND MORRIS talks about his study of our Intimate Behaviour v. s. NAIPAUL on his new novel In (Free State
MARGARET DRABBLE Considers E. M. Forster 's early novel
Maurice PAUL JOHNSON on Vincent Cronin 's biography of Napoleon Producers
JOCELYN FERGUSON MIRIAM RAPP
(K. W. Gransden talking about Maurice: tomorrow, 8.10 pm, R3)
from Chaucer to Yeats
An anthology in 26 programmes 2: Anonymous songs and ballads of the 14th and 15th centuries Introduced by PETER PORTER Reader HUGH DICKSON
ProducerGEORGE MACBETH
S.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world: including reports from the Labour Party Conference in Brighton
ROBERT MCKENZIE examines the art and craft of political oratory. Tonight he looks at the particular skills required for parliamentary oratory: in conversation with NORMAN ST JOHN-STEVAS , MP, and RICHARD CROSSMAN , MP.
Pride and Prejudice
Read by EILEEN ATKINS (11)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
