6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.56 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
7.46 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.9 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
Never has it been more vital to be aware of the state of our British wildlife, animals and insects, fish and plants.
At the Nature Conservancy at Monks Wood the Biological Records Centre is mapping our wildlife populations - compiling, in fact, a 20th-century Domesday Book.
Introduced by Derek Jones
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
S.30 History in Evidence
.Anglo-Saxon Britain - 5: The
Coming of the Danes
Written by MAGNUS MAGNUSSON Producer ALAN FREIRA
9.45 Listening and Reading
1 Shadrach ' by MEINDERT DEJONG 2: The Coming of the Rabbit Read by ELIZABETH ORNBO
Series edited and produced by PHILIPPA PEARCE
Poetry Corner. Once a Year: poems for Christmas
NEM p 72: All ye who seek for sure relief i BBC HB 289); Psalm 51: Isaiah 1. vv 1-6, 16-20 (rsv); Rock of ages (BBC HB 296)
10.30 Music Workshop 2
Written by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry
Unit II: The Family Today
10: Change in the African Family written by JIM CRACK The series edited by JACK SINGLETON
(15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery
Bridges -3: Bridges Today by BOSWELL TAYLOR
Series producer ARTHUR VIALLS (Rjadiovision)
11040 Guitar School
Written and introduced by MICHAEL JESSETT (19)
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today: Your Rights and Responsibilities
The Cruse Organisation: FRANCES BBRTHELSEN reports on a channel that exists to offer practical advice to widows, Other topical items too. and a selection from vour 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 13: Paritomania 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 behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle '
Story: Bertha and the Lonely Lighthouse by LIANE SMITH
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 by James Doming
2.20 Books. Plays, Poems
Your Own Stories: a programme of original stories by listeners to the series
Producer STUART EVANS
2.45 Nature
Swans by LESLEY GOULD
Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
White Nights by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY dramatised by KEITH MILES
Ian Richardson as the Narrator ' It was a beautiful night, the sort of night that is only possible when we are young. The sky was wonderfully bright, the stars gleeful, and the moon majestic. Gazing upwards, it was difficult to believe that so many wicked people could live beneath so perfect a sky.... ' LINDA GARDNER as the Girl
GRIZELDA HERVEY as Grandmother and KERRY FRANCIS as the Man Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words
2: A Sigh on the Harp
The Celts who have inhabited the island since pre-Roman times are defeated by the Anglo-Saxons. and have lived ever since in the further reaches of Britain.
Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Dr Anne Ross , former Research Fellow. School of Scottish Studies. University of Edinburgh, who also speaks the commentary.
(For full details see Sunday)
Read by Alan Gibson
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 Renle Houston , Marjorie Proops Juno Alexander , Ann Holloway In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
Burry Port
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently Visited the Burrv Port district of Carmarthenshire
Producer PHYI.LIS ROBINSON
(Sunday's broadcast extended
Time to Go Home by IVOR WILSON
'I'm looking for someone - a regular customer on these highbrow coach-tour holidays who specialises in a bit of extortion between visits to the Art Galleries.'
Michael Cnaig DERRICK GILBERT Elizabeth Downing
JENNIFER PIERCEY
Miss Semple ......ELLA ATKINSON Vivienne Jennings JUNE BARRY Colonel Daventry.DAVID MAHLOWE Mr Poole........GEOFFREY BANKS Mr Braybrook.ROY BARRACLOUGH Producer ALFRED BRADLEY
with Philip Oakes who talks to Paul Foot about The Life and Times of 'Private Eye,' a collection of the magazine's best pages
Anthony Howard on Our Gang (starring Tricky and his friends), a new American satire by Philip Roth
Melvyn Bragg looks at some new fiction with poems from Geoffrey Grigson's anthology Unrespectable Verse
from Chaucer to Yeats
An amthology in 26 programmes 10: Richard Crashaw (1612-1649) Thomas Traherne (16371674) Henry Vauahan 11622-1695)
Introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE Reader GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Yuki by RONALD KIRKRRIDE
Read by GARY WATSON (8)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
