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 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 *nd 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 column 5
8.40 Today's Papers
An Act of Worship
The Hopwood Family: The Deep End. Introduced by RALPH ROLLS
Devised to help listeners recognise the songs and other sound signals of the birds about them. Presented by TERRY GOMPERTZ Producer MADEAU STEWART
9.35 Hello Agatn
S: Ananse and the Tiger retold by MARGERY MORRIS '.45 Music Workshop 1
The Bluebird Line by PAUL JENNINGS and NEIL BUTTERWORTH
NEM p 102; Lord, teach us how to pray aright (BBC bb 344); Psalm 34, vv 11-22; Mark 2, vv 1-12 (AV); Rise up, 0 men of God! (BBC HB 364)
10.30 Voix de France
15: L'immigration étrangère en France. Compiled by R. A. ESCOFFEY (Sixth Form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
5: Wheels within wheels
11.0 Quest. Workshop
11.20 Listening and Writing
Seeing and Saying: The City (Radiovision)
11.40 Prospect. Oneself
The psychologist and work: compiled by LESLIE SMITH
12.0 Announcements
Presenter Joan Yorke Your Own Time
Too Cheap by Half?: a winter weekend in a European capital costs less than some train or plane return fares within Britain. But is It worth it? DEREK COOPER investigates.
And other topical items, too.
VHF South West: see column 5
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: Brown Bear Goes to Market by ELIZABETH ROBINSON
2.0 Let's Join In. Long, Broad and Sharpsight: traditional
2.20 Christian Focus. Time To Spare: voluntary service in schools, by BARRY TURNER
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School: written and presented by MICHAELJESSETT (25)
A Boring Story by ANTON CHEKHOV : adaptation by TONY GOULD from the story translated by DAVID magarshack Erie Portman as an eminent professor, Nikolai Stepanych
Jane Asher as his ward Katya, a young actress
Wolfe Morris as his colleague, Mikhail Fyodorovich
Themes and characters which recur in the later plays originate in this story: an old man's painful indifference of the soul, a young girl's search for love, lives passing each other by. Music selected and played by VIOLA TUNNARD
Producer B. B. FORTUIN
Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
The Freedom Trap by DESMOND BAGLEY
5: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
Reader TRADER FAULKNER
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team including
STEVE RACE'S Radio Times Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
2: Home Counties
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBT 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 PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday, 4.30 pm)
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Robens Shirley Williams , mp
Bryan Forbes , David Frost Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Producer Michael BOWEN from Weybridge, Surrey
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answersr should be sent to Any
Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Picking Up the Pieces
Pakistan's President Bhutto talks in Rawalpindi to IAN MCINTYRE about the domestic and international problems now facing his country. Producer GEORGE FISCHER
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week.
Officers and Gentlemen by EVELYN WAUGH : abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE-WILKINSON Read by HUGH BURDEN Producer JOHN CARDY
In which travellers on the Southern Region pass their time like Chaucer's pilgrims by telling stories. This week:
The Lay Clerk's Tale
Written by PAUL JENNINGS and told by Patrick Cargill to GEOFFREY BEEVERS and JOHN RUDDOCK
Producer simon BRETT
(Repeated: Saturday, 5.30 pm)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
