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 Robert Robinson and Douglas Cameron
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
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
The kind of voice that comes only once every century
(Toscanini)
A tribute, with gramophone records, to Marian Anderson , who recently celebrated her 70th birthday, based on her memoirs.
Written and introduced by CHARLES OSBORNE
NEM p 4: My Father, for another night (BBC BB 407); Psalm 47; Hebrews 2, vv 5-18 (JB); Come, thou Holy Spirit, come (BBC HB 152)
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by TERENCE LOVETT BBC CHORUS
Introduced by COLIN DORAN
A series by MARGARET POTTER on people who assumed various roles, or were presumed to be of higher birth or rank.
2: The Watchmaker of Potsdam Narrative spoken by GEOFFREY BANKS Who also portrays the various characters
Presenter Jeanine McMullen Your Home and Family
What's New in Playground Equipment: slides on slopes, car tyres - these are two of the new developments investigated in today's programme.
Other topical items too; and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA; or phone [number removed], extension 3030, and record your letter)
A panel game (?)
Starring Graeme Garden and Jo Kendall v Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie
With Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and Dave Lee at the piano
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
(Radio Times People: page 4)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Jackalaska by MARJORIE DARKE
International Orchestras include music by Dvorak, Ponchielli and Malcolm Arnold
DEREK COLLIER plays violin solos accompanied by WILFRID PARRY
Charlotte Bronte's novel adapted as a five-part serial by Barbara Couper
with Meg Wynn Owen and Patrick Allen
visits Lincoln
Members and guests of the Lindum Townswomen's Guild put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Introduced and produced by KENNETH FORD
by P.C. Wren
Read by Douglas Leach
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
A panel game for four hands Leader of the pack and chairman is David Nixon who deals to June Whitfield, Patrick Moore, William Rushton
Devised and shuffled by IAN MESSITER
Produced and cut by BICHAKS WILLCOX
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestiand presenting world news and views
[number removed]
Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Dr Roger Bannister , Chairman of the Sports Council, which became operative on 1 April
To promote o 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 radio-link documentaries in which ROY TREVIVIAN asks the real questions of five remarkable people as he explores their world. 1: The Buccaneer
; Spike Milligan , are you going to try suicide again? '
Series devised and produced by PETER ARMSTRONG
by JASPER RIDLEY
Sir Robert Walpole was an expansive, extravagant man, lavish in entertainment and generous to his friends. He was on terms of close friendship with Queen Caroline, and her skilful management of George 11 was a great help to Sir Robert in the business of government.
A personal portrait compiled from the anecdotes and reminiscences of the men and women who knew him: among them Archdeacon Coxe , Horace Walpole. Lord Hervey and Lord Chesterfield.
Producer NESTA PAIN
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Liberty Man by GILLIAN FREEMAN abridged by BARBARA Henderson Read by ELIZABETH MORGAN Producer JOHN CARDY
All the day's news preceded by Weather
