S.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer 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 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 CLIVE CUNNINGHAM )
8.40 Today's Papers
Talking Point: Junior Edition Why does our cat purr when I play the harmonica? How long does a slow-worm liver What do midges live on when we aren'theref
Some of the most intriguing-and formidable-questions come from our younger listeners, so this month's programme is given over to them.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DrLYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History in Evidence
Tudor Britain 5: A Recusant Story written by ROBERT LAMB
9.45 Listening and Reading 2 The Balaclava Story by GEORGE LAYTON
9.55 Radio Jeunesse
8: A radio magazine including Le correspondant anglais by PAULE-ALINE DENT
(Second-year French)
10.5 Poetry Corner
I went to the Animal Fair
NEM P 54; Thy mercy, Lord (BBC HB 482); Psalm 25, w 1-10 Mark 9, vv 30-50 (AV); 0 praise ye the Lord! (BBC HB 279)
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. 3: Fit for Work, Fit for Life. by PHILIP HOLLAND (15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Bread (i) by ARTHUR VIALLS
Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Foreign Correspondent Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR
Presenter Nancy Wise
Your Rights and Responsibilities. Magistrates: how are they appointed and how well does the system work? A report from PETER SANDY. and What's On Your Mind?
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
(Tuesday's broadcast)
Stories: Prunella's Cup of Coffee by DAVID CROWTHER , and Mr Brown 's Bonfire by ROSA-MUND RUSHTON
2.8 Movement, Mime and Music 1 by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems Enter a Free Man by Tom STOPPARD : Part 2 Producer STUART EVANS
2.45 Nature. Dragonfiies by LESLEY GOULD
He Knows, He Knows
A new radio comedy by GWYN THOMAS introducing Hewlett Prout , a Rhondda polymath
1 You'll have to watch it, Hewlett. Your mind's too hot. Cool it. Find, soothing things to do. See as many cowboy pictures as you can. And side with the cows. Don'try to make out a case for the Indians.'
Philip Madoc as Hewlett Prout Ray Smith as Norman Trott
Producer LORRAINE DAVIES
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words.
15: The Dignity of Danger
Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON under the direction of Christopher Lloyd , former Professor of History at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and Brian Bond , Lecturer in War Studies at King's College, London, who also speak the commentary. Speakers for the People
FRED WEBSTER , R. F. JAMES , JOHN DALISON , BEATRICE WEBSTER , JOHN FAULKNER , HENRY MILLS, BRIAN GILPIN , TEHRY YARNELL , STEPHEN COOMB , GLYN MORGAN , JONATHAN WOOD. RICHARD WAR-HAM LIAM MANNING , CORNELIUS RELORDAN , MALCOLM ADKINS , ERIC MASON , IDRIS OWEN , JAMES MC-LAREN, DEREK BERRY , DEREK ABSOLOM, W. G. HILLIER , BILL COWLEY , JOSEPH BEHAN , ERNEST ARMSTRONG , JOHN TAYLOR , BEN BRIGHT, CHARLIE CLAXTON.
Producer for the voices of the People CHARLES PARKER , assisted by JOHN MERSON and JON CROOK Special music by DAVID CAIN Programme realisation by DICK MILLS , LLOYD SIL^RTHORNE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON directed by DAVID MUNROW Readers JOHN RYE
SARA COWARD, TREVOR MARTIN and CLIFFORD NORGATE
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Read by EVA HADDON
8: The Great Big World
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Ollerton, Notts
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
Number 13 by David Ellis with Deryck Guyler
Henry Farthing was an enthusiastic amateur detective - and a great nuisance to the local police. But you can cry ' wolf ' once too often ...
with Magnus Magnusson. whose special interests attract him this week to Weird and Tragic Shores, the story of the 19th-century Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall ; and a discussion with a more recent dweller among the Eskimos, DUNCAN PRYDE , author of the recently published Nunaga
KINGSLEY amis surveys the science fiction scene, including the new Mutant 59 - the Plastic Eater by the Doomwatch creators Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis
Producer DAN ZERDIN
from Chaucer to Yeats
23: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Edward Lear (1812-1888) Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
Introduced by PETER PORTER Reader GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
John Tusa reporting
The Story of Gwendolen Harleth Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (13)
preceded by Weather
