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 Robert Robinson and John Timpson
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 CLIVE CUNNINGIUM ) VHF East Anglia: see column 5
8.40 Today's Papers
Contributed by the BBC'S Foreign News staff
9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools 'Jesus the healer'
(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 22: Prayer is the soul's sincere desire (BBC HB 347); Psalm 9: Romans 8, vv 5-21 (NEB): Believe not those who Bay (BBC HB 317)
16.30 Marsh! 8: Moscow (i)
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
11.45 Intermediate German
Wilhelm Röntgen, der Entdecker der X-Strahlen
Written by HILDE-MARIA KRAUS
11.0 Movement and Music 1 for the 5-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
The Artist and his Vision: R. E. t. LAMB presents some of the poetry of R. S. THOMAS - who talks about himself and reads some of his own poems. (Sixth Form series)
Presented by Derek Cooper Today's main feature: Your Home and Family
Where Have all the Grannies Gone?: with more women working and parents living far away from their adult children, it's more and more rare, NANCY WISE finds, to have a Granny close by. 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 5
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Clement Freud , Peter Jones Sheila Hancock 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 introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Nicest Things by LESLIE PITT
2.0 Peoples of the World
A Golden Earring - Peru to. day and yesterday: part 2
Written by MARGERY MORRIS
2.20 Geography
Switzerland - Vaud: property development in the Alps by PHILIP HOLLAND
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9)
Woodspells: witches, wizards and magic charms
by ROBERT BARR starring Edward de Souza
Bryden Murdoch. John Graham Geoffrey Frederick Part 6: The Trap
Producer PETER TITHERADGE ‡
(Edward de Souza is in ' The Philanthropist ' at the May Fair Theatre, London)
Monty visits Britain's top tourist attraction and talks to CYRIL TAYLOR , Chief Yeoman Warder , about life in the Tower during and after visiting hours,
by Charlotte Brontë
Presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
by RAY COONEY and JOHN CHAPMAN Getting to Know You
Moira Lister as tcuciiy willow Terence Alexander as Paul Willow and Doris Hare as Nanny with RAY COONEY as the Motel Receptionist
JOHN CHAPMAN as the Manager Producer DAVID HATCH
(Moira Lister and Terence Alexander are in ' Move Over Mrs Markham ' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
John Simpson presenting world news and views
Ring Robin Day to put your question on China in person to three experts
Anthony Grey , Reuter's former Correspondent in Peking, who was held as a hostage by the Chinese for two and a half years
Anttaonv Lawrence , for 15 years the BBC's Far East Correspondent, who will be answering your questions from Hong K-ong Roderick MacFarquhar of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, leading expert on China, and the first Editor of China Quarterly
Inscrutable China, whose 850-million people make up nearly a quarter of the world's population, is emerging from her isolation. What will her impact be on world politics? What are the Chinese really like? What do they think about us?
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward. as well as while the programme is on the air. Producer WALTER WALLICH
The Iron Box
The Prison Life and Death of George Jackson , author of Soledad Brother, shot down in San Quentin, 21 August 1971 ' Failure ... means our crowbar has struck the iron box containing the treasure.'
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Compiled and introduced by Godfrey Hodgson from tape and documentary records of the events which led up to his death, including interviews with the Soledad Three, their relatives and counsels, and with the Prison Authorities, made available by Pacifica Radio, Berkeley, California
Producer CHARLES PARKER
Stereophony: see page 19
Only Connect - on culture and communication by Richard Hoggart
1: Taking for Granted
The general subject of Professor Hoggart's lectures is ' communication ' with a small ' c '. Later in the series he will be dealing in personal terms with aspects of the mass media and with the problems of making contact within a foreign culture. In this first lecture he discusses the variety of ways in which we speak to each other in our own society, the judgments - sometimes simple, sometimes highly complex - we make from ' reading ' gestures, signals and faces, and the implications of taking so much of this communication for granted, i
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The Scapegoat by DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Read by MICHAEL SPICE (12)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
