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 column 5
8.40 Today's Papers
Jean Metcalfe introduces
Questions posed by listeners
Sunday's broadcast)
Peter Pratt tecalts the career of the popular Australian bass-baritone
NEM p 96; Come down, 0 Love divine (BBC HB 149); Psalm 29; Isaiah 8, v 22, to 9, v 7 (rsv); 0 God of truth (BBC HB 359)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE MARY THOMAS (soprano) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Today: Music from France Introduced by DAVID BROOMFIELD
The biography of the legendary dancer written by his widow ROMOLA NIJINSKY
Read by ANNA BURDEN 4: Prisoners of War
Ken Sykora presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
Dentistry without Qualms: DAVID SHUTE sees a recently developed drug in action at the Birmingham Dental Hospital which takes the terror out of dentistry for the very nervous patient,
Other topical items too. and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours. BBC, Broadcasting House. London W1A IAA; or phone [number removed], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: see column 5
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12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Jenny and the Singing Animals by KATHLEEN EYRE †
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND OWEN BRANNIGAN (baSS)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)
But precisely whatr
A magazine of a sort, which takes a quizzical, indulgent and sometimes ferocious glance at the British way of life - while we still have one
The Cruel Sea by NICHOLAS MONSARRAT . Read by GABRIEL WOOLF 4: 1941 Against Odds
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 panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Clement Freud. Peter Jones Katharine Whitehorn try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSlTER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard In last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Presented by Ludovic Kennedy On 10 December 1941 Japanese aircraft sent iims Prince of Wales and Repulse to the bottom of the South China Sea -and thereby ended an era.
On the eve of the 30th anniversary, survivors relive the last hours of Force Z. joining historians, intelligence experts, and men who lived in Japan, Singapore, and Australia to recreate the climate and controversies of 1941. Written and produced by ROLAND CRALLIS
(' ... listing so much I simply walked off the ship ': page 12)
A weekly survey of the arts Introduced by Michael Billihgton
This edition includes:
Fiddler On the Roof: NORMAN JEWISON talking about his new film of the hit musical, starring
Topol Blake 's Illustrations to the Poems of Thomas Gray - on exhibition at the Tate Gallery. Lost for over 100 years, this is the first time they have been shown to the public
The Long March of Everyman: Radio 4's 26-part project. ' Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain ' (Sunday and Wednesday)
Producer MIRIAM RAPP
PAUL VAUGHAN presents new discoveries, new ideas and recent research, and introduces some of the people who make and use them in a changing world. Producer MICHAEL R. BRIGHT V.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The Shipbuilders by GEORGE BLAKE
Read by Tom FLEMING (4)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
