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
The Problem of Pests
Even the most ardent conservationist doesn'want to set up a wildlife reserve for wood-worm in his furniture or for rats in his larder - certain species have to be controlled. The Living World visits a leading pest control laboratory to find out what work is going on in this sphere.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History in Evidence Medieval Britain
4: The Black Death
Written by MICHAEL SMEE
9.45 Listening and Reading 2
Return to Air, by PHILIPPA PEARCE , read by JUDY BENNETT
9.55 Radio Jeunesse
4: A radio magazine including Le conseil de discipline by PAULE-ALINE DENT
(Second-year French)
10.5 Poetry Corner Let's hear it again
NEM p 15: Virgin-born, we bow before thee (BBC HB 240); Psalm 33. vv 13-21; Luke 2, vv 28-40 (AV); Lead us, heavenly Father (BBC hb 307)
10.30 Music Workshop 2 Paris under Gaslight by JOHN PARRY
Music by jacques OFFENBACH arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS
11.0 Inquiry. Unit III. Violence 4- Dog versus Under-dog written by JOHN SUTCLIFFE The series edited by JACK SINGLETON
(15-16 age group)
11 20 Discovery. Measurement 1: Time, by ARTHUR VIALLS Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Foreign Correspondent Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR
Presenter Nancy Wise Your Rights and Responsibilities
What's in a Name? What are the rules about naming children and what can you do if you don'like your name? LAURIE SAPPER explains.
Other topical items too, and What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 2
The Cheap Departed
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Tiger Tim Takes a Walk by ANNE ENGLISH
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music for the 7-to-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books. Plays, Poems
Becket by JEAN ANOUILH : part 1 Producer DAVID LYTTLE
2.45 Nature: The Robin by CLIO MATHESON
Gin and Gingerbread by KON FRASER
' Why should she have the luck? She doesn'enjoy life ... she only drinks it away.... and she makes sure no one else enjoys it either.'
Producer MARGARET ETALL
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words.
10: The Holy War: Roundheads and Cavaliers - and Everyman Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Christopher Hill , Master of Balliól College, Oxford, who also speaks the commentary.
Speakers for the People
GORDON BAVERSTOCK, R. MILES, C. COLEMAN , CHARLIE JOHNSON , JULIA LONGMAN , BILL JACKSON , ALAN HANCOX , NORMAN MACCAIG , E. SUGARMAN , THOMAS EVANS , DONALD ANDREWS , ELAINE SUGARMAN , THOMAS JONES. EDWIN BOND , RAY GOSLING , MIKE VICCARY , JOHN PLUMB , JIM WELHAM , PETER WAR-HAM , FRED DOUGHTY , L. HAZZLEDINE , JOHN WALLER , WILLIAM ANDREWS , GEORGE TIGWELL , STANLEY WILSON , GLYN MORGAN , ALAN HURFORD , TERRY YARNELL. COLIN SELF . GARRY DAVIS , JIM O'CONNOR , BRIAN PEARSON. DONALD ANDREWS , HARRY MADDISON , J. EDWARDS. PHILIP ALLEN , BILL COWLEY. BETTY DOUGHTY , JOHN ELEY , BETTY UNDER-WOOD . JACK CRISP , BRIAN DAVIES , F. WEBSTER
Producer for the voices of the People CHARLES PARKER , assisted by JOHN MERSON and JON CROOK
Special music, sound composition and orchestration by DAVID CAIN , assisted by LLOYD SILVERTHORNE and DICK MILLS THE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT directed by DAVID MUNROW Readers JOHN RYE
CLIFFORD NORGATE. NIGEL LAMBERT Additional commentary by MICHAEL DRAKE
The series of 26 programmes created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by MICHAEL MASON
Masterman Ready by CAPTAIN MARRYAT
Read by DAVID MAHLOWE 3: A Blustering Night
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
John Simpson and Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
Midlothian
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the Loanhead district of Midlothian
Our John by IVOR WILSON
' From the number of jobs you've had, you must be the most versatile lad in the North of England. They all liked you, but they all dismissed you. Why's that? '
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
with Richard Mayne who looks at the adventures of One of the Few (Grp-Capt Johnny Kent ) and The Diary of a Desert Rat (R. L. Crimp)
LORD CHALFONT reviews two new biographies, Barnes Wallts by J. E. Morpurgo and Man of Valour - Field-Marshal Lord Gort, VC, by J. R. Colville
RONALD BRYDEN talks to the West Indian novelist-playwright SAMUEL SELVON about his new book Those Who Eat the Cascadura; and reviews Water with Berries, a novel of a West Indian in exile, by George Lamming and a new biography by Basil Willey sends DAVID DAICHES back to' the poems of Coleridge Producer DAN ZERDIN
from Chaucer to Yeats
An anthology in 26 programmes 18: Percu Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
John Keats (1795-1821) John Clare (1793-1864)
Introduced by PETER PORTER ReaderHARVEY HALL
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
(Feb 9: Byron, Hood. Praed)
Douglas Stuart reporting
Officers and Gentlemen by EVELYN WAUGH
Read by HUGH BURDEN (3)
preceded by Weather
