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)
9.30 History in Evidence Tudor Britain 1: The Star Chamber written by ALAN FISHER
9.45 Listening and Reading 2
James and the Giant Peach (i) by ROALD DAHL : read by DAVID BRIERLEY
9.55 Radio Jeunesse
6: A radio magazine including La maison de la Culture by PAULE-ALINE DENT
(Second-year French)
10.5 Poetry Corner The Big Brass Band
NEM p 11: The Lord of heaven confess (BBC HB 478); Psalm 116; Mark 5, vv 1-17 (av);
Give to our God immortal praise (BBC HB 6)
10.30 Music Workshop 2 Paris under Gaslight by JOHN PARRY
Music by JACQUES OFFENBACH arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS
11.0 Inquiry. Unit IV: The Public Health.
1: National Health by JEANINE MCMULLEN
Series edited by JOHN PARRY (15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Measurement 3: Keeping Time (Radiovision) Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Foreign Correspondent
Despatches from BBC correspondents around the world are followed by comment, discussion and interpretation by experts in London.
Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR
Presenter Derek Cooper
Who is eligible for Jury Service? Who should be eligible? Is it true that the average jury is male middle-class, middle-aged and middle-minded? Nigel Murphy investigates.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 2
with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron Barbara Mullen as Janet Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay The Equilibrium
1
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Jonathan's Silver Clothes Peg by MARY DE LA MAHOTIERE
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 for the 7-to-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
Becket by jean ANOUILH : part 3 Producer DAVID LYTTLE
2.45 Nature. Mammals that fly
The Shop Steward by DON WATTS
' .. they mark you - remember that. They'll be polite to you, maybe make a fuss of you, but they're the enemy-a threat.... and it's not just them - there's your mates. They'll use you as a firing range if you let them, they'll let you stick your neck out and watch it get hacked off.'
Producer ROGER PINE
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words.
What was the British countryside like, before the Industrial Revolution, for those who actually earned their daily bread in it?
Composed and produced by Michael Mason, under the direction of Joan Thirsk, Reader in Economic History in the University of Oxford, who also speaks the commentary.
The series of 26 programmes created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by Michael Mason
The Purple Land by W. H. HUDSON
Read by BRIAN GEAR
3: The Reds and the Whites
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 Renee Houston , Barbara Kelly Nancy Wise. Rita Merkelis 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)
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
Horley, Surrey
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Horley in Surrey
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
Next week Tonypandy and Trealaw, Glamorgan
Bill and Ben by DON MATTHEWS
On television, Bill and Ben the flower-pot men are very sweet, and oh so friendly to everyone at the little house ...
But now for something completely different.
Producer GERRY JONES
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
with Richard Mayne
MICHAEL BILLINGTON looks at a new book about one of the greatest of music-hall performers, George Robey by Peter Cotes
FRANÇOIS DUCHÊNE on De Gaulle as revealed in Fallen Oaks, an account of a long conversation Andre Malraux had with him in December 1969
WILLI FRISCHAUER talks about his latest book, David Frost , and about some of the problems of writing biography
MICHAEL SCAMMELL discusses Red Square at Noon. the story of what happened when young people in Moscow demonstrated against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and other new books
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
from Chaucer to Yeats
An anthology in 26 programmes 21: RobertBrowning (1812-1889) Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907)
Introduced by PETER PORTER Reader HARVEY HALL
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
The Story of Gwendolen Harleth Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (3)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends