6.27 Farming Week: presented today from East Anglia by DAVID RICHARDSON
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
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
and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by ANTHONY SMITH ) VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
by JAMES HILTON
Read by GEOFFREY MATTHEWS (6)
Zena Skinner. Gordon Clyde Vivian Stanshall 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 58; Love came down at Christmas (BBC Hymn Book 53): Psalm 119, part 3; Philippians 2, vv 1-11 (NEB); When Christ was born of Mary free (Oxford Book of Carols 178)
CONTINENTAL ORCHESTRAS and BBC CHORUS conducted by G.ALAN MELVILLE Introduced by PETER DONALDSON Producer BARRY S. KNIGHT
by ANTHONY BUCKERIDGE
Jennings Sounds the Alarm
Jennings and Darbishire are back again up to their old tricks. It's not too easy organising fire drill and. of course. things go wrong. But they go right, as well!
(And you'll find the cast list on Wednesday, too)
Presenter Joan Yorke
Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
The economic outlook for 1972: DOMINICK HARROD. the BBC'S economic correspondent, looks into the crystal ball to see what the future holds for prices, wages, taxes and unemployment,
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: Mr Moon Goes to a Party by MARGARET EDEN
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND PHILIP HATTEY (baritone) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Producer ALAN OWEN
Thunder in the Air
The Wind in the Willows by KENNETH GRAHAME (1859-1932) The immortal story of Rat, Mole, Badger, and Toad of Toad Hall
Abridged and told in ten parts by David Davis
1: The River Bank
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening.
Including the latest news, the evening press, the City. the people and talking points of the day. Presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news; weather and programme news
from the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Better Safe than Sorry written and adapted by DICK SHARPLES
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer PETER TITHERADGE
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views ... Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
by ANNE BRONTE: abridged In 10 instalments by NAN MACDONALD Reader David Mahlowe
Part 1: Which introduces Gilbert Markham , his Family and Neighbours
Producer TREVOR HILL (from Manchester)
Percy Edwards , the bird-imitator of radio. TV, films and variety theatre fame, discusses with DEREK JONES his career and enthusiasm for wildlife, aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)
Not a Bandit in Sight by ROY BOLITHO with and and The trouble with Ivor was that he'd always had it too soft, too much money, too few responsibilities. He wanted nothing but a quiet life - and above all escape from his obligations.
The action takes place in the garden of Ivor's house in Surrey. Time: The present.
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL
England v
Australia 1946-71
What would happen were it practicable to match the 22 post-war Greats in Test cricket between
England and Australia in a Super Test at Lord's to celebrate a quarter of a century of battling for the Ashes?
Radio 4 this week brings you a close approximation - a Computer Test programmed to embrace all the known facts and as many variables as possible, not forgetting the weather (as for June).
Teams:
England HUTTON, BOYCOTT, MAY, COMPTON, COWDREY, BAILEY (Captain), KNOTT, WARDLE, LAKER. TRUEMAN, BEDSER
Australia MORRIS, SIMPSON, BRADMAN (Captain), HARVEY HASSETT. MILLER, BENAUD, DAVID-SON, LINDWALL, GROUT, JOHNSTON
Tonight until Friday we bring you the highlights of each day's play, reconstructed as commentary with actuality by BRIAN JOHNSTON and JOHN ARLOTT , with summaries from NORMAN YARDLEY and statistics and computer comment by BILL FRINDALL. CHRISTOPHER MARTIN -JENKINS and JOHN POSTON (Of Scicon Ltd).
Later, at 10.45 pm. there is match analysis and discussion. Producers MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS and MARTIN COX
(A Current Affairs and Outside Broadcasts special presentation) (Radio Times People: page 4)
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Part 2: Match analysis and discussion, with SIR NEVILLE CARDUS among the contributors, and interviews with some of the day's top performers.
Kitten with Blue Eyes by JON GODDEN read by DENISE BRYER (6)
preceded by Weather
