6.27 Farming Today
S.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)
8.40 Today's Papers
The Peak Park
This month's Radio Nature Trail visits the wild and beautiful Peak District, home of ring ouzel, red grouse, mountain hare and golden plover. The area of the Park is ringed by cities, so careful planning will be vital to preserve its beauty and value to wildlife. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History in Evidence Tudor Britain. 4: Frobisher's
Voyage, by HUGH WOODHOUSE
9.45 Listening and Reading 2 Robinson Crusoe by Defoe Read by JOHN HOLLIS - 1
9.55 Radio Jeunesse
9: A radio magazine including Paris-Londres by PAULE-ALINE DENT. (Second-year French)
10.5 Poetry Corner The Echoing Green
NEM p 76; Father of peace (BBC HB 488); Psalm 67; Mark 11, vv 20-33 (Av); 0 happy band of pilgrims (BBC HB 335)
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. 4: Drugs: use and abuse, by JUNE ROSE (15-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Bread (ii) by JO MANTON
Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Foreign Correspondent
Introduced by GRAHAM TAYAR
Presenter Nancy Wise
Your Rights and Responsibilities. The Private Eye: FRANCES berthelsen looks at investigation agencies.
Other topical items too, 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
Queen's Institute of District Nursing: BRIAN rix on gardens open this summer.
Illustrated booklets (England and Wales, 25p including postage) from 57 Lower Belgrave Street, London SWI, or Scotland's Gardens (20p including postage) from 26 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh 1.
Story: The Lost Boots by ENID ROGERS
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
Your Own Plays: a programme of short plays by listeners
2.45 Nature. Migrant Butterflies, by DEBORAH STEINER
For Your Friends Are My Friends by JOAN TIMOTHY
' I don'expect my slippers in the hearth, the evening paper by my chair, or even a glass of sherry, but I don'even get a cup of tea. And why? Because my dearly beloved wife is out on her many works of charity. Charity! There's a proverb about that you might bear in mind.'
Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Miriam Margolyes is in ' The Threepenny* Opera ' at the Prince of Wales Theatre)
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words.
16: True-born Britons
As the French Revolution challenged the old regime in Europe, Everyman found a radical political voice which was to echo down two generations of sweeping social change. Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Gwyn Williams , Professor of History at the University of York, who also speaks the commentary.
Special music by DAVID CAIN Programme realisation by DICK MILLS , LLOYD SILVERTHORNE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON directed by DAVID MUNROW Readers JOHN SAMSON
WILLIAM EEDLE and ROBIN BROWNE The series of 26 programmes created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by MICHAEL MASON
Explorers by KATHERINE SIM Narrated by CARLETON HODES 3: Jean Louis Burckhardt (1784-1817)
The great caravan routes of Arabia travel through sandy plains still unknown to us ...'
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 Renée Houston, Margot Naylor Sally Beauman , Charmian limes in the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
(Repeated:-Friday, 12.25 pm) (Radio Times People: page 4)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
visited Hyde, Cheshire
Producer richard DURWOOD
(Sunday's broadcast extendedH
The Prizewinners by JOHN IIOLLIS with Patricia Hayes
When the kids have left home you've got to find some way of filling the day. Competitions and bingo are fun and, of course, you could win a lot of money.
Producer JANE GRAHAM
with Magnus Magnusson
LENA JF. GER, MP, looks at Old Age, Simone de Beauvoir 's study of society's treatment of old people in the past and now; Hugh Leonard talks about Sean O'Casey as revealed in his autobiography, being published in paperback, with readings by O'Casey himself; and other books including The Lunatic Express by Charles Miller, the true story of the building of a railway across East Africa in the 1890s.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
from Chaucer to Yeats
24: Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) George Meredith (1828-1909)
Introduced by ANTHONY thwaite Reader HARVEY HALL
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Douglas Stuart reporting
Dead Cert by dick
Francis Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (3)
preceded by Weather