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 CUNNINGHAM ) VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
Forest Nature Trail
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(From Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History in Evidence
Anglo-Saxon Britain -3: The Court of King Alfred Written by MAGNUS MAGNUSSON †
9.45 Listening and Reading
Lion at School ' by PHILIPPA PEARCE, read by GARARDGREENt
Poetry Corner
The Owl in the Oak
NEMp 26; To Christ, the prince of peace (BBC HB 94): Canticle 5: Romans 8, vv 22-39 (NEB): Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (BBC HB 369)
10.30 Music Workshop 2
Written by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry
Unit II: The Family Today 8: Family in the Future Written by ALICK ROWE (15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery
Bridges by ARTHUR VIALLS
11.40 Guitar School
Edited by DOUGLAS COOMBES (15)
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Rights and Responsibilities The Planners versus the People: what are your rights if ' they ' threaten to blight your area With motorways, purchase your home compulsorily, or damage your local amenities? RUPERT TOWNSHEND -ROSE asks whether the law gives the individual enough protection.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 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. 11: The Arts 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 behindithe headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Andrew's Lucky Dip by WINIFRED HOLLOWAY
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 for the 7-to-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDINGt
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems Don Quixote by CERVANTES
A new adaptation for radio in six parts by VERNON SCANNELL - 5 Music by MICHAEL GARRICK
DAVIDMARCH as Don Quixote
JOHN HOLLIS as Sancho Panza
2.45 Nature
The story of Tarka the Otter adapted for radio by DEBORAH STEIN ER from the book by HENRY WILLIAMSON
Hit and Run by ALFRED ANDERSCH translated by DAPHNE LEE
An accident on the Autobahn tangles up three separate stories of guilt and innocence and fear.
This is the first English broadcast of the famous German radio play of -the 60s. Oast:
With JAKE THACKRAY and TRISTAN FRY (percussion) Producer CHRISTOPHER HOLME
TOM HARRISSON , for many years Government Ethnologist in Sarawak, talks to DEREK COOPER about the Kelabits of Borneo Producer SUSAN ERLBECK +
by Charlotte Brontë
Read by Judy Parfitt
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The questions and ideas you send are discussed today by Renee Houston, The Rt Hon Barbara Castle MP, Jean Hook, Carol Binstead
In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
(Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
Kidlington, Oxfordshire
Where's Your Sense of Democracy? by KEITH MILES
The balance of power in the Pugh family is severely upset when, in spite of Dai's objections, the women democratically elect to take a student into the house.
' A perfect democracy is ... the most shameless thing in the world.' BURKE
Producer JAMES OUCKETT
with Philip Oakes
JOHN WAIN talks about his new collection of stories The Life-guard
A. ALVAREZ on his new book The Savage God
DEREK JEWELL reviews The World of Duke Ellington R. o. SMITH looks at the Collected Poems of W. R. Rodgers TONY BEAMISH on two books by Alan Moorehead : The White Nile and Darwin and the Brayle Producers MICHAEL HEFFERNAN and MIRIAM RAPP
(Ellington at 72: page 3)
from Chaucer to Yeats
An anthology in 26 programmes 8: Thomas Campion (1567-1620) Sir Walter Raleph (1552.1618) John Donne (1572-16311 and others
Introduced by PETER PORTER Reader HUGH DICKSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Scapegoat by DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Read by MICHAEL SPICE (13)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
