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 Robert Robinson and John Tlmpson
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
8.40 Today's Papers
Short story by SYLVIA LEWIN Read by JOAN MATHESON
' The house looked grim. Dark and Gothic behind its shrubs and creepers. I said something about not wanting to go on with it, especially as we weren'sure of our welcome, but Ralph pointed out that there seemed absolutely nowhere else.'
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools
' Man for All the People ': an outside broadcast from Whitley South Primary School, Whitley Bay, Northumberland,
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Movement and Music 2 for the 6-to-7-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
NEm p 87; God of mercy, God of grace (BBC HB 455); Psalm 147, vv 1-12; 2 Peter 1, vv 1-11 (NEB): Lead, kindly light (BBC HB 306)
10.30 Marsh!
6: In the restaurant
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Intermediate German Nicht jeder Stern glitzert Written by MILO SPERBER
11.0 Movement and Music 1 for the S-to-6-year-olds by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club
Presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion in its Contemporary Context. Searching for Truth - 3: ROBERT WALTON on 'Truth for the Religious Man ' (Sixth Form series)
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Home and Family
In search of lodgings: GEOFFREY GREEN looks at the position of youngsters leaving home and in need of accommodation, 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 column 1
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud
Peter Jones , Andrle Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thurs, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics In and behindthe headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Doll's House by JOYCE STANLEY
2.0 Peoples of the World
The House of Roses: a story about Mexico - part 2
Written by MARGERY MORRIS
2.20 Geography
France - Aluminium and the Savoie Landscape, by NORMAN TURNER. Series produced and edited by ALEX HUNTER
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9) Bellerophon and Pegasus: a Greek legend retold by JUNE HODGE
by ROBERT BARR
A further Jim Nicholson adventure in six parts, taking us back to the remote and lonely islands of the Outer Hebrides. starring Edward de Souza
Bryden Murdoch , John Graham Geoffrey Frederick
Part 4.: The Prisoner
Producer PETER TITHERADGE
(Edward de Souza is in The Philanthropist ' at the May Fair Theatre, London)
What was it like to be up against it in the London of 70 years ago or more? DAISY,' now in her 80s, never had it easy: with a feckless father and almost no money, she remembers queueing late at night to get the cheapest food; and a working life which began at the age of 13 in service. She reminisces with NANCY wise
visits Crieff in Perthshire
Members of the Strathearn Horticultural Society put their questions to:
JOHN LACEY , BILL SOWERBUTTS
ALAN GEMMELL. Question-master FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Producer KENNETH FORD
The Young Wizard An account of Sir Walter Scott 's childhood by MICHAEL ELDER 2: Sandy Knowe
The news magazine that sums up your clay - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and PM s reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Ian Carmichael and Dinah Sheridan in Keeping Up With the Talbots with Colin Gordon and Charlotte Mitcbell and SUZANNE KERCHISS , PETER CRAZE EDWARD KELSEY , JOHN BULL
Written by GODFREY HARRISON Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
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Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Rt Hon Sir Keltn Joseph , mp Secretary of State for Social Services
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air. Producer WALTER WALLICH
A second chance to hear
What Happened to Hancock? Written and introduced by PHILIP. OAKES
Throughout his career Tony Hancock was a perfectionist, searching for some indefinable and unattainable peak of ' pure' comedy. It was a search which brought him both triumph and disaster. He was still searching when he died tragically in Australia In June 1968. with contributions from
RALPH READER, BERYL VERTUE SYLVIA SYMS , SID JAMES
DUNCAN WOOD, MICHAEL WALE
RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON Research and interviews by RITA DANDO
Producer MICHELL RAPER
A look at the present plight and future shape of town and country: compiled and introduced by Nicholas Taylor The Owners of Our Cities
Large parts of our city centres are still in the hands of the same few noble landlords who created them. The Grosvenor Estate has just published a plan for the future of Mayfair. Are the great estates living up to their responsibilities? Speakers include:
GEORGE RIDLEY and J. N. C. JAMES , Trustees of the Grosvenor Estate
JOHN TAYLOR , Architect-Planner to the Grosvenor Estate
SIR JOHN SUMMERSON , author of Georgian London
COUNCILLOR HUGH CUBITT , Chairman of the Planning Committee, Westminster City Council Producer LEONIE COHN
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The Scapegoat
Read by MICHAEL SPICE (2)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends