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: 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)
8.40 Today's Papers
Some children cannot be looked after by their own parents - around 70.000 each year in England and Wales. ' In care is the official phrase. But in whose care?
Two Foster Mothers talk about themselves and their work to RITA DANDO , who also questions a social worker involved.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM p 90; Lord of mercy (BBC HB 295): Psalm 23; Isaiah 6, vv 1-10 (rsv): Shepherd divine (BBC HB 348)
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL MOORES and KING'S S SINGERS
Today: Made in Britain †
Introduced by DAVID BROOMFIELD
The biography of the legendary dancer written by his widow Read by ANNA BURDEN ‡ 2: Beauty or the Beastt
Ken Sykora presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Today: Your Home and Family Is it the thought that counts?: NIGEL MURPHY examines the importance that married partners attach today to such things as gifts and remembering dates. and What's On Your Mind?
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Eva and the Birds by LEILA BERG
BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conductor KENNETH ALWYN and OWEN BRANNIGAN (bass)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)
by CHARLES DICKENS adapted and produced in seven episodes by CHARLES LEFEAUX 3: Mr Vincent Crummies
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visits Meole Brace, Shropshire. Members of the Meole Brace Garden and Allotment Club put their questions to:
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS
ALAN GEMMELL. Question-master FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Producer KENNETH FORD .
The Cruel Sea by NICHOLAS MONSARRAT
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF 2: 1940 - Skirmishing
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
by RAY COONEY and JOHN CHAPMAN
Starring Moira Lister as Felicity Willow, Terence Alexander as Paul Willow and Doris Hare as Nanny
with John Chapman as the garage man, Ray Cooney as the caravan camper
(Moira Lister and Terence Alexander are in 'Move Over Mrs Markham' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Chris Underwood and Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
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Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
James Reid. chief spokesman for Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Shop Stewards, Clydebank Communist Town Councillor and newly elected Rector of Glasgow University
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air. Remember that your chance of getting into the programme will be much greater ij you keep your question short. Producer WALTER WALLICH
(Shortened version: Wednesday. 9.35 am)
Written and compiled by OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS
Fifty years ago this week the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London after centuries of strife between both countries. The decision by the Irish delegation to settle ' The Irish Question ' for once and for all was an agonising one.
When the news was brought back to Dublin there followed a split in Irish politics which resulted in a year of the bloodiest civil war that the island had ever experienced. Songs by BILL MEEK
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(The BBC at ihe front line in Belfast 1971 - an exclusive RADIO TIMES report from Northern Ireland: pages 65-71)
Only Connect - on culture and communication by Richard Hoggart A series of six talks 4: There's No Home
Professor Hoggart is currently on leave of absence from Birmingham University, where he is Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, serving as Assistant Director-General of UNESCO in Paris. In this lecture he talks about life in a large international organisation, the pressures operating within such a ' non-society ' or ' non-culture.' and particularly the problems of language and communication. †
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
by George Blake
Read by Tom Fleming
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
