6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayet for the Day
S.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 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 )
8.40 Today's Papers
An Act of Worship
The Hopwood Family
Put it to him straight'
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 Again!
6: The Talking Fish retold by MARGERY MORRIS
9.45 Music Workshop 1
The Bluebird Line by PAUL JENNINGS and NEIL BUTTERWORTH
NEM p 19; Jesus, good above all other (BBC HB 72); Canticle 9; Mark 6, vv 6-16 (AV): Lone in the desert (BBC HB 343)
10.30 Voix de France
16: La vie politique en France: a talk by ROBERT MENGIN (Sixth Form French)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
6: Dreaming and Dancing (I)
11.0 Quest. A hidden book by GEOFFREY CURTIS
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
11.20 Listening and Writing
The Gang: an extract from Orwell's Coming Up for Air
11.40 Prospect. Ourselves: the sociologist and the family compiled by KEITH YEOMANS
12.0 Announcements
Presenter Derek Cooper Your Own Time
Away From It All: religious considerations aside, the habit of going into retreat for a few days-usually as a second holiday - is on the increase.
TONY BLACK takes a look at the reasons, the cost, and the people who do it.
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 Hardcaslle
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: Hawkins and the Ducks by RUTH TURRELL
2.0 Let's Join In
Mouse saves the Village by JENNY TILL
2.20 Christian Focus. Time to Think, by PADDY FEENY
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School: edited and produced by DOUGLAS coombes (26)
Selected for Friday Dear Miss Hope by DENNIS WOODFORD with Irene Handl
Hilary Hope 's agony column Is read by thousands and she's never at a loss for a reply to ' Despondent' of Golders Green. But when trouble lands on her own doorstep she finds it's not quite so easy to know how to deal with it.
Producer JANE GRAHAM
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.
The Purple Land by W. H. HUDSON
Read by BRIAN GEAR 5: Dona Demetria
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcaslle 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
A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title.
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN 3: South of England
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
John Simpson 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 PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday, 4.30 pm)
A spontaneous discussion by Rt Ron Edward du Cann , MP The Bishop of Credlton Frank Judd , me Jacky Gillott
Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Plymouth. Devon
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers' should be s.ent to Any
Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
The Death and Resurrections of Marx Brian Beedham looks at the various attempts that have been made to put the ideas of Karl Marx into practice.
The original experiments in the Soviet Union failed because the Russian leaders made the . mistake of thinking that the problem of power was solved when they had captured it.
Wtot are the chances that the second round of experiments -in China, in Yugoslavia, in Cuba and in the West - will do better?
Producer GEORGE FISCHER
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week.
The Story of Gwendolen Harleth by GEORGE ELIOT
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (5)
In which travellers on the Southern Region pass their time like Chaucer's pilgrims by telling stories.
The Film Director's Talc
Written and told by Peter Jones to ROBIN BROWNE and MARTIN FRIEND
Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Saturday, 5.30 pm)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
