27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
Regional news, weather and programme news
The world this morning 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
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 RICHARD COMPTON-HALL
Read by MARTIN MUNCASTER 5: Bootle's Benefit
An Act of Worship
The Road to Damascus
Introduced by RALPH ROLLS
A new series designed to help town, suburb and country dwellers to identify the songs and signals of the birds about them.
Presented by TERRY GOMPERTZ Producer MADEAU STEWART
9.35 Hello Again! 1: The Clever Beetle by MARGERY MORRIS Producer DAVID LYTTLE
9.45 Music Workshop 1
The Bluebird Line by PAUL JENNINGS and NEIL BUTTERWORTH Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
NEM p 102; Jesus, stand among us (BBC HB 262); Psalm 10; Ephesians 4, v 32, and 5, vv 1-14 (NEB); 0 what their joy (BBC HB 252)
10.30 Voix de France: 11
Extracts from Dom Juan by Moliere
(Sixth Form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music: 1: Exploring the instruments
by Albert Chatterley
11.0 Quest
Other People's Shoes by Robert Rietty
11.20 Listening and Writing
A Tin Butterfly: an extract from Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy. Reader Diana Olsson
11.40 Prospect
Current Affairs
Presenter Derek Cooper Your Own Time
Reeling About: KEN SYKORA visits the headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society at Cecil Sharp House, London,
And other topical items too.
VHF South West: see column 1
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: Scruffy Mouse and the Centipede by Leslie Pitt
2.0 Let's Join In. Jack and the Beanstalk: traditional
2.20 Christian Focus
A Point of View: CINDY KENT of The Settlers answers questions put by LESLIE SMITH and two young people
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School. Introduced by MICHAEL JESSETT (21)
Selected for Friday Amphitryon 2
A Roman comedy by PI.AUTUS (c 255-184 Be) translated by PATRIC DICKINSON Music by THOMAS EASTWOOD with and A section of the NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HARRY NEWSTONE Producer RAYMOND RAIKES
(Shortened version of broadcast in 1961) A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.
The Wind in the Willows by KENNETH GRAHAMS Told by DAVID DAVIS
10: The Return of Ulysses
The news magazine: presented by William Hardeastle and PM's 'reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Semi-Final (i)
13: Scotland v North of England
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Tom Bostock presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer RICHARD BURWOODt
(Repeated: Saturday, 4.30 pm)
A spontaneous discussion by MARGHANITA LASKI , DAVID FROST JOHN JUNOR , HAROLD EVANS Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from London
(Repeated: Saturday 1.15 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answersr should be addressed to Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Fifty-four per cent of the electorate are women and yet of 630 mps there are only 26 women and only one in the Cabinet.
Why do so few women enter politics? Why is there so much prejudice against them? Is it a fallacy that they are bitchy and over-emotional?
Anthony King investigates with the help of Barbara Castle, MP; Pat Hornsby-Smith, MP; Margaret Thatcher, MP; Shirley Williams, MP and recordings from BBC Sound Archives, including the first woman in Parliament, Nancy Astor, and the first woman Cabinet Minister, Margaret Bondfield.
[Recording]
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
New York: Fun City or Nott WILFRED DE'ATH returns, with relief, to the relative civilisation of the East Coast. On Manhattan Island he rejoices in 'the only really sophisticated city I know.'
The Walking Stick
Read by YSANNE CHURCHMAN (5)
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano look back at the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by PETER SFENCE Producers SIMON BRETT and DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Saturday, 5.30 pm)
preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
