6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The world this morning 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
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
by James Hilton, abridged by Neville Teller, read by Geoffrey Matthews
(Last of ten instalments)
(Next Week: "Further Chronicles of Bootle")
Starring Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch
with Wallas Eaton, Anthea Askey
in a light-hearted journey down Memory Lane back to that flat in Broadcasting House where Band Waggon was born.
(Broadcast on 28 Dec 1971) [Repeat]
go out in the midday sun and sometimes catch a cold.
Last year five million people went abroad for their holiday and 500,000 of them went for the first time.
John Doran looks at some of the personal stories behind these statistics and comes to the conclusion that perhaps home isn't so bad after all.
NEM p 87; What star is this with beams so bright (BBC HB 69); Psalm 119, part 5; Ephesians 1, vv 3-14 (NEB); Jesu, ,guide our way (BBC HB 144)
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by KENNETH ALWYN GEOFFREY CHARD (baritone) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Music from Town and Country Introduced by PETER DONALDSON
by Anthony Buckeridge
(For cast see Wed, 11.30 am)
The end-of-term play could be absolutely supersonic if everything worked out right. But when Jennings and Darbishire get involved and Mr Wilkins tries to help out ...
Presenter John Edmunds.
Your Own Time
Yoga for Beginners: Barbara Myers reports on the growing popularity in this country of the ancient oriental art of relaxation and meditation,
And other topical items too.
(VHF South West: see column 2)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Pantomime by Jacqueline Adkins
BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conductor KENNETH ALWYN PHILIP HATTEY (baritone)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Selected for Friday Take Any Day by IVOR WILSON
A doctor holds in his hands the lives and happiness of his patients -. not just for this day - or that - but every day. When we ask him for an account of his stewardship he must be able to say - ' Take any day.'
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY
The Wind in the Willows by KENNETH GRAHAME Told by DAVID DAVIS 5: Dulce Domum
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
(Repeated: Saturday, 4.30 pm)
A spontaneous discussion by RT HON
ANTHONY WEDGWOOD BENN , MP NOKMAN ST JOHN-STEVAS , MP ANTONY HOPKINS
PATHICM HAYES
Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Redditch, Worcestershire
England or Australia?
Who has won Radio 4's special Computer Test Match between the postwar Greats of each country?
Today is the fifth and final day, with maybe an exciting finish in prospect.
Full details in tonight's programme, with match comment, analysis and discussion, and interviews with leading players including England captain Trevor Bailey.
Contributors: Sir Neville Cardus, John Arlott, Brian Johnston, Norman Yardley, Bill Frindall, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and John Poston (of Scicon Ltd).
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Georgette Heyer and Barbara Cartland have been the undisputed queens of romantic fiction for 20 years.
MARGARET WALTERS analyses the reasons for their continuing success,
Kitten with Blue Eyes by JON GODDEN read by DENISE BRYER abridged by MOLLIE HARDWICK Producer JOHN CARDY
Last of ten instalments
DAVID JASON. BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano look hack at the week's news and illustrate the funny side. script by PETER SPENCE Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Saturday, 5.30 pm)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
