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
7.50-8.0 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
An Act of Worship ' Folk in Worship '
Introduced by RALPH ROLLS
Victoria's Veteran
HARRY WILKINS of Newark took the Queen's Shilling in 1894. He fought on the North West Frontier in 1897 and is the last survivor of the Tochi Valley Campaign.
Today he reminisces with DENNIS MCCARTHY
Producer JAMES GALLAGHER (from Birmingham)
Music Workshop 1
Written by WILLIAM MURPHY
NEM p 61; Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27); Psalm 97; Romans 14, v 19, to 15, v 7 (NEB); How glorious Sion's courts appear (BBC HB 493)
10.30 Voix de France: 9
Extracts from Partage de Midi by Paul Claudel, with narrative links by Ariel Daigre (Sixth Form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music: 9: Raindrops
by Albert Chatterley
11.0 Deutsch fur die Oberstufe
Probleme der Bundesrepublik in den siebziger Jahren
11.20 Listening and Writing: Walkabout: 2
by James Vance Marshall
adapted by Michael Hyde
11.40 Prospect: Some political ideas: Maoism
Norman Hunt in a discussion with John Torrance and Bill Weinstein
12.0 Announcements
Jeanine McMullen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Own Time
'It may come in handy RENÉE and JULIAN ROBINSON give NANCY WISE ideas on what to make from rubbish
And other topical items too.
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Brown Bunnies with Pink Ears by JEAN SUTCLIFFE
2.0 Let's Join In The Magic Pot by CHARLES OFFER
2.20 Art and Design
Structure: Buckminster Fuller Interview by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE Narrator NIGEL ANTHONY
Script and production by JOAN GRIFFITHS (Radiovision)
2.40 Guitar School (18)
Selected for Friday A Tale of Two Men by ROGER MACBETH with Cyril Luckham
At the crossroads of his career Underwood must decide either to sink into oblivion or to seek fulfilment.
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.
A selection of listeners' letters
The short stories of Saki 5: Saki on Fate
PAUL EDDINGTON reads Fate, The Background, and The Unrest-Cure.
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
A general knowledge contest between schools in England Scotland, Wales and N Ireland. Question-masters JOHN ELLISON and TIM GUDGIN First Round - 6:
North of England
CHEADLE HULME SCHOOL, Cheshire v QUEEN ELIZABETH GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Wakefield
John Simpson presenting world news and views
NANCY wise makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
Producer Richard BURWOOD
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Stokes, Bamber Gascoigne, Lynda Chalker, Dennis Potter
Chairman David Jacobs
from King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, Birmingham
(Repeated: Saturday. 1.15 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers' to Any Answers? [address removed]
(Lord Stokes's Choice: page 5)
Criminal Justice 71
Presented by Robert McKenzte Crime, and violent crime in particular, is on the increase, and questions are being raised about the kind of sen tences being handed down. The background to the new Criminal Justice Bill is in part a demand for harsher sentences, and there is some demand for a more formalised sentencing policy. With crowded prisons, are there alternatives to tougher sentences?
These problems are examined by criminoiogists, senior members of the legal profession and others closely concerned. Producer ROBERT FOX
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week.
Yuki by RONALD KIRKBRIDE read by GARY WATSON (5)
DAVID JASON , NIGEL REES MARK WING-DAVEY and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano look back at the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by PETER SPENCE Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Saturday, 5.30 pm)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
