6.27 Farming Week: presented from the Royal Smithfield Show at Earls Court by ROY GREGOR
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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
7.49 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
says I've always wondered ... and seeks an answer in the odder recesses of the BBC Sound Archives
Zena Skinner , Gordon Clyde Vivian Slanshall and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Producer RICHARD GILBERT
NEM p 87; Love of love (BBC HB 521); Psalm 100; Isaiah 5, vv 11, 12, 18, 25 (RSV); 0 happy band of pilgrims (BBC HB 335)
A mid-morning mixture for your enjoyment with CONTINENTAL ORCHESTRAS and RAPHAEL SOMMER (Cello) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by DAVID BROOMFIELD Producer BARRY S. KNIGHT
The biography of the legendary dancer written by his widow ROMOLA NIJINSKY abridged in ten parts by DEREK PARKER from Nijinsky and The Last Years of Nijinsky Read by Anna Burden 1: Imperial Russia This story ranges from glory to disaster and is as tragic and thrilling as any written by the great Russian novelists.
Ken Sykora presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
Tax Concessions for the Elderly: PAMELA DEEDES goes through the list and explains who can benefit,
Other topical items too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 1
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: The Rat Princess by PENELOPE FARMR
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND and OWEN BRANNIGAN (bass) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Producer ALAN OWEN
We the Accused
The Cruel Sea by NICHOLAS MONSARRAT abridged in ten episodes and read by Gabriel Woolf 1: 1939 -Learning
When this book was published just 20 years ago it was hailed as a great saga of the war in the Atlantic and as one of the most exciting sea stories ever written.
The sailors are the stars of this story: the only heroines are the ships and the only villain the cruel sea itself.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
( ' The Day Force Z Went Down,' the sinking of bms Prince of Wales and Repulse in 1941: Thursday. 8.0 pm)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
from the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron Barbara Mullen as Janet Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay
For Richer for Poorer: written and adapted by DICK SHARPLES
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer PETER TITHERADGE † (Rptd: Wednesday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Chris Underwood presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
on behalf of the Labour Party
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dllys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland (Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 pm)
Edgar Lustgarten reconstructs six of the most famous murder trials of this century
3: The Wigwam Girl
' With branches and leaves and twigs and capes and blankets, he constructed primitive shacks and shelters. Wigwams they were really - wigwams that have given this case its lasting name.'
Producer ROGER PINE
The Darling of Disaster by LYDIA RAGOSIN with
Mary Wimbush , Sheila Burrell ' Intolerance of corruption and refusal to compromise with it, can only lead a proud and honourable man in a corrupt society to self-destruction.' Main characters:
Producer CHARLES LFFEAUX †
(Sheila Burrell is in ' West of Suez' at the Cambridge Theatre. London)
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
The Shipbuilders by GEORGE BLAKE abridged by NAN MACDONALD Read by Tom Fleming
Clydeside 40 years ago. Then, as now. times were hard, slump had followed wartime boom. and fine craftsmen were idle. This is the story of Danny Shields and Leslie Pagan , old war comrades, held together by friendship but divided by class - one a worker, the other a boss.
Producer JOHN CARDY
(First of 15 instalments) †
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
