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 Todays 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
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools
A Building Made of Music: the storv of Handel's Messiah. by GORDON REYNOLDS
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Movement and Music 2
NEM p 72: Father of heaven (BBC hb 290); Psalm 51; Mark 11, vv 11-20 (AV); My God, accept my heart (BBC hb 356)
10.30 Marsh! 19: In Tbilisi written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
11.45 Intermediate German
Internationales Quiz: Wer Wieiss mehr? by HILDE-MARIA KRAUS
11.0 Movement and Music 1 for the 5-to-6-year-olds by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.21 Music Club presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion in its
Contemporary Context
The Artist and his Vision: JOHN STOCKBRIDGE presents The Music of Beethoven Producer RALPH ROLLS
Presenter Nancy Wise
Your Home and Family
The Wicked Stepmother - fact or fiction? JOAN YORKE tries to dispel the myth relating to step-parents.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Clement Freud , Peter Jones
Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that Devised by tAN MESSITER Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Unwanted Woodshed by KATHLEEN SHARMA
2.0 Peoples of the World
Uganda: life can change fast, by ELEANOR YOUNG: part 1
2.20 Geography. Malaysia by JOHN TUSA
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9) ' The Overland Launch ' by C. WALTER HODGES
by HUGH WALPOLE Book 4: Vanessa
Adapted lor radio in three episodes by CONSTANCE cox 1:The Rascal
Special effects prepared by DAVID FLEMING-WILLIAMS
Theme music by PAUL FERRIS Producer TREVOR HILL
(from the North of England)
(Colin Edwynn is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)
(Tenth of 12 instalments: Sunday's broadcast)
visits St Aryans, Monmouthshire Members of the St Aryans Village Produce Association put their questions to:
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL. Question-master FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Producer KENNETH FORD
Explorers by KATHERINE sim Narrated by CARLETON HOBBS
2: Frederick Conrad Hornemann (1772-1801)
! It was thought that the Niger and the Nile communicated. My task was to discover if they did.'
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.6 Regional news, weather and programme news
'twixt Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and Richard Murdoch , David Nixon Tune-twisters from STEVE race In the chair Roy PLOMLEY Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer PETER TITBERADGE
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
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Ring Robin Day to put your question on Birth Control in person to
Sir John Peel , President of the British Medical Association, past President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Queen.
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward as well as while the programme is on the air. Producer BERNARD TATE
A series of five Royal Scandals 4:The Duke of Clarenceand Mrs Jordan by DAVID WILLIAMS with Mary Wimbush and Michael Harbour
The love affair of a noted actress and a Royal Duke, recollected in adversity.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING (Mary Wimbush is in ' Butley ' at the Criterion, London)
The Seychelles
During her Commonwealth tour the Queen will be visiting the group of tropical islands in the Indian Ocean which, because of their coral beaches, turtles and coconut palms, and - up to now-their inaccessibility. have come to be known as the last paradise.
But with BOAC now operating a regular weekly service, the package-tour operators and the property dealers are moving in. Can the islands survive the tourist invasion? In a year's time what will be left of this tropical paradise?
MARGARET HOWARD reports Producer GORDON CLOUGH
Four talks for Lent
3: Bronwen. Viscountess Astor
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Dead Cert by DICK prancis
Read by denys hawthorne (2)
preceded by Weather