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 introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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
A magazine edition of this programme about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast) I
Private Lives: a book of fully illustrated natural history studies on a year in the life-cycles of 13 different species of animals and birds is available, price £1.75 (a BBC publication).
9.38 History in Evidence
Medieval Britain - 2: An Assize Court. Written by HUGH wood -HOUSE
9.45 Listening and Reading
Stig of the Dump (i) by CLIVE KING. Read by GARARD GREEN
9.55 Radio Jeunesse
2: A radio magazine including Vous avez le nez cassé! by PAULE-ALINE DENT
(Second-year French)
10.5 Poetry Corner
Rain from a Red Sky
NEM p 64; 0 thou who earnest from above (BBC HB 362); Psalm 119 part 2; Jeremiah 31, vv 1-6 (rsv); 0 Brother man (BBC HB 376)
10.30 Music Workshop 2 Paris under Gaslight by JOHN PARRY
Music by JACQUES OFFENBACH arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS
11.0 Inquiry. Unit 111: Violence 2: A Case Study written by FRED HOOPER The series edited by JACK SINGLETON
(15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Communication 2: There's no need to talk by ARTHUR VIALLS
Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Foreign Correspondent
Each week, an examination in depth of a major and current issue in international affairs. Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR
Presenter Derek Cooper Your Rights and Responsibilities
Do people who defend themselves, instead of employing a lawyer, get a fair deal from magistrates courts? ELIZABETH MITCHELL discusses some possible changes in legal procedure. Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA; or phone [number removed], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: see column 2
from the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with The Masterpiece written by VINCENT TILSLEY and adapted by PAT DUNLOP
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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: The Dog who Frightened the Sea by DOROTHY EDWARDS
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music for the 7-to-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
'If I could only find the words' by FAY WELPON
A new play specially written for this series
2.45 Nature. How Birds Fly by PADDY FEENY
Figures in the Foreground by GYLES ADAMS with Sean Barrett. Kate Coleridge and Stephen Thorne
Photographs of monks who couldn'have been there lead to strange developments.
Producer R. d. SMITH
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words
8: Madrigal for Mixed Voices: The New Age of Elizabeth
Annapurna South Face CHRIS BONINGTON reads extracts from his book 3: Struggle for the Ice Ridge
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The questions and ideas you send are discussed today by Renée Houston. Eileen Fowler Gwen Grant , Juno Alexander In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland and Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
Seaton Delaval
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Seaton Delaval in Northumberland
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
Smoke by ROBIN SMYTH with Lynn Carson , John Dearth and Kathleen Helme
Life is definitely not over at 40 in this cheerful domestic comedy - not if your luck's in! Producer R. D. SMITH
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
with Richard Mavne
ARNOLD KETTLE talks about a new edition of Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders, with readings by GABRIEL WOOLF London Pride: a look at two nostalgic books about our vanishing metropolis, Lost London and Chelsea
The voice of the late STEVIE smith reading from a new hook of her poems and other new books Producers DAN ZERDIN and MIRIAM RAPP
from Chaucer to Yeats
An anthology in 26 programmes 16: Robert Burns ([number removed]) George Crabbe 11754-1832) William Blake (1757-1827)
Introduced by PETER PORTER Reader HARVEY hall
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
(26 Jan: Wordsworth, Coleridge)
John Tusa reporting
The Walking Stick by WINSTON GRAHAM
Read by YSANNE CHURCHMAN (8)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends