6.27 Farming Week: a regional view of farming in the week ahead, presented today from the North by KENNETH FORD
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 Robert Robinson
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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
WILFRID THOMAS tells more of his outlandish stories with the help of the BBC Sound Archives
Zena Skinner. Vivian Stanshalt 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 1; Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! (BBC HB 169): Psalm 63; Isaiah 11, v 10, to 12.v2 (Rsv; Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round (BBC HB 321)
A mid-morning mixture for your enjoyment with CONTINENTAL ORCHESTRAS and JACK BRYMER (clarinet) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by PETER DONALDSON 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 6: The Final Dance
As his mind begins to crack. Nijinsky dances for the last time in public.
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
The Cost of Litigation: going to law is notoriously expensive. but there are ways of keeping the costs down. LAURIE SAPPER explains. †
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 1AA; or phone [number removed]. extension 3030. and record your letter)
VHF South West: see column 2
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines inlroduced by Robert Williams
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: The House Stands Empty by MARGARET GORE
with BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE , conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND and CLIVE LYTHGOE (piano)
Producer ALAN OWEN
by Wynard Browne
Afternoon Theatre
(Saturday's broadcast)
[Repeat]
The Cruel Sea by NICHOLAS MONSARRAT abridged in ten episodes and read by GABRIEL WOOLF 6:1942 - Darkness
HMS Compass Rose has fought valiantly against the cruel sea as well as a cruel enemy for three punishing years. And now in 1942, in the bitterly cold sea off Iceland, the moment they have feared these long years has come. A U-boal has found them at last ...
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
This week: A Question of Conflict
Written by Tony Williamson and adapted by Pat Dunlop
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT ducgleby Editor BRIAN BLISS
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland
Edgar Lustgarten reconstructs six of the most famous murder trials of this century.
4: The Chalk Pit Mw,
' Two days after the existent party ... Mudie's dead body was discovered. In a deserted chalk pit Discovered with clean shoes on ... though the surrounding ground looked like a swamp Discovered with a cord around. the neck....
Producer ROGER PINE †
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
The Shipbuilders by GEORGE BLAKE
Read by TOM FLEMING (6) †
All the day's news preceded by Weather
