6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.59-7.0 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 column 5
8.40 Today's Papers
A magazine edition of this programme about wildlife and the countryside
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History in Evidence
Anglo-Saxon Britain - 4: An Anglo-Saxon Lawsuat
Written by HUGH WOODHOUSE †
9.45 Listening and Reading
' Shadrach byMEiNDER TDEJONG Part 1: Waiting for the Rabbit Read by ELIZABETH ORNBO
Poetry Corner
Let's Hear it Again
NEM p 54: All as God wills (BBC HB II: Psalm 25, vv 1-10; Romans 13. vv 1, 7-14 (NEB); We come unto our fathers' God (BBC HB 255)
10.30 Music Workshop 2
Written by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry
Unit II: The Family Today
9: Old Way of Life in Africa Written by JIM CRACE (15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery
Bridges - 2: The Tay Bridge by ALEX ALLAN and ARTHUR VIALLS
11.40 Guitar School Introduced by MICHAEL JESSETT (17)
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Today: Your Rights and Responsibilities
Furnished Tenancies: ignorance of the law can lead to misunderstandingbetweenlandlord and tenant. A tenant describes her unhappy experiences and a barrister explains how they might have been avoided. †and a Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBO,
Broadcasting House, London
WIA IAA: or phone [number removed], and record your letter)see column 5
VHF south West: see
starring ' The Things'
Michael Robbins as Dad Pat Coombs as Mum Liz Gebhardt as Beryl Frank Abbott as Len with Ronald Fletcher as Himself
12: Trade'n'Industryan'that Written by TONY BILBOW and m.ke fentiman Producer MARTIN FISHER
12.55Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Lullaby by MARGARET GORE
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 for the 7-to-9-year-oIds by JAMES DOODING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems Don Quixote by CERVANTES
A new adaptation for radao in six parts by VERNON SCANNELL -6 Music specially composed by MICHAEL GARRICK , played by the MICHAEL GARRICK trio: Michael Garrick (piano, harpsichord, organ); Dave Green (bass); Trevor Tomkins (drums)
DAVID MARCH as Don Quixote JOBS HOLLIS as Sancho Panza Narrated by VERNON SCANNELL Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO †
2.45 Nature: Water Birds by CLIO MATHESON
Aren'People Kind? by MARIAN CAMPBELL
'You know I wouldn'interfere, but to stand by and do northing when she's turned to us ...it doesn'seem natural.' an<l DAVID GOODERSON
Producer MARGARET ETALL
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words.
1: Green Land, Red Bricks
The ancient Britons build the first round houses, but the Romans drive the first straight roads - until the breaking of the Wall ...
Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON under the direction of Barry Cunliffe , Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton, who also speaks the commentary.
Speakers for the People BEN DAVIES. COLIN BUCHANAN , CHRISTOS ALEXIOUS, MICHOS KOSTOPOU-LOS, STELIOS PLATONOS , RITSA PA-PATHEOPHI1.OU, BERTHA BUTLER. ANDREAS PARPAXIAS , JANE JOSHUA , CHRIS ZISSIMOS , IDRIS OWEN , CHRISTOS DOULIDE. THOMAS EVANS. GEORGE HAJEFANIS. GLENNYS TOMBS Producer for the voices of the People CHARLES PARKER
Literary advisers MICHAEL ALEX ANDER. Lecturer in English, University of Stirling: RAYMOND Williams , Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and University Reader in Drama
Central consultants ASA BRIGGS, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex; GWYN Williams. Professor of History, University of York
Special music, sound composition and orchestration by DAVID CAIN , assisted by NORMAN MCLEOD THE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT directed by DAVID MUNROW
Folk music adviser MADEAU STEWART
Readers ANTHONY HALL
TREVOR MARTIN. NIGEL LAMBERT Additional commentary by JACQUETTA HAWKES. ANNE ROSS and MICHAEL DRAKE
Producer's assistant LIBBY MAUDE The series created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by MICHAEL MASON
(A 2.000-year story of everyday British folk: pages 17-19)
The short stories of Saki 3: Saki on Bores
PAUL EDDINGTON reads The Schartz-Metterklume Method. A Defensive Diamond, and The Boar-Pig,
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 Renée Houston
Nemone Lethbridge
Bettine Le Beau , Alice Hemming In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
John Simpson and Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
Lochgelly: FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Lochgelly. Fife The Burry Port District of Carmarthenshire
The Traitor by ADRIENNE MANS translated by ARNOLD HINCHLIFFE with Geoffrey Beevers
In May 1940 German troops occupied Holland and a guerilla army - the Dutch Resistance - came into being. To young men like Jan Veenstra the choice seemed clear - the Germans were evil and must be destroyed. But he soon learned that the enemy was not so easily defined ...
Producer KAY PATRICK
with Philip Oakes
RICHARD MAYNE on Flaubert the Master, the second volume of Enid Starkie 's biography
JULIAN MITCHELL takes a look at some of the novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize the day before the winner is announced
MARGARET LANE talks about a new book on Mary Wollstone craft, an important figure in the Romantic movement and an early champion of women's rights. and other new books
Producers MICHAEL HEFFERNAN and MIRIAM RAPP
from Chaucer to Yeats
An anthology in 26 programmes 9: George Herbert (1593-1633)
Introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE Reader GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
(Nexrt week: Vaughan, Crashaw and Traherne)
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Yuki by RONALD KIRKBRIDE read by GARY WATSON (3)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends