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 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
Songs and Voices
Hedgehogs squabbling, night-jars displaying, toads spawning, snails on the march, and a wide selection of birdsong-all these have been recorded by members of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society for their annual competition.
In this programme they play their recordings and describe how they were made.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History in Evidence Stuart Britain 1:
The Virginia Settlement
Written by HUGH WOODHOUSE Producer DICKON REED
9.45 Listening and Reading 3
The Dog with a Million Fleas by STUART WIDDOWS Reader PETER FACEY
9.55 Nous y sommes!
1: Roger- détective formidable Written by ARIEL DAIGRE
(Fourth-year French: 11-12)
10.5 Poetry Corner. Fire! Fire!
NEM p 83; Almighty God , thy word is cast (BBC HB 188); Psalm 50; Hebrews 11, vv 17-19, 23-27, 32-40 (jb); Spread, 0 spread, thou mighty word (BBC HB 182)
10.30 Music Workshop 2
Hagoromo - an introduction to a Noh play bySeami adapted from the original by ANTHONY THWAITE with music by GERARD VICTORY . Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry. Unit 5: The Worker. 1: All in together, by JEANINE MCMULI. EN based on an idea by SIMON CI.EMENTS (15-16)
11.20 Discovery. Prime Movers 1: It starts from the sun by ARTHUR VIALLS
Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Foreign Correspondent
Each week, an examination in depth of a major current international issue
Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR
Presenter Nancy Wise Your Rights and Responsibilities
Home Helps: what sort of assistance are you entitled to, and on what grounds? What should you pay?
NIGEL MURPHY investigates.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
based on the book by HENRY CECIL starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby in Deaf Aid
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Roy Hay talks about gardens open this summer in aid of the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society and the Royal Gardeners' Orphan Fund.
(Booklet, Gardens to Visit, price 10p, from bookstalls)
Story: The Boasting Whistling Kettle by i. w. ROBERTS
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music 1 for the 7-to-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
I and Mine: poems about people and possessions Script by STUART EVANS Producer SAM LANGDON
2.45 Nature. The Plant Hunters by PETER CAMPBELL
Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
Better Than Skate by DAVID MOSEY
' When we got in the other night-at mam's - Colin was by the curtains, standing, helpless and so out of place I felt like ... He wouldn'hurt a fly but something's got to be bottled up there somewhere ... '
Producer TONY CLIFF
22: The Inferno: 1914-1918
Speakers for the People HAROLD JANNER , CAl.UM GRAHAM, MARK STRUTT , MATTHEW FESTINGS , A. J. MARTIN , JOHN ANSTEY. JOAN MITCHELL , REG MOSS. KAY BLISS , CECIL ABBOTSON , NORMAN WISE-MAN, BRIGADlER BURTON , TOM SALMON, JOHN HENDERSON , MRS LOCKWOOD , GERALD MICHAELS , MR WILI. ATS, GERALD KNIGHTS, GOD-FREY CORNWALL, MICHAEL REEVES , P. DAVIS , C. W. BARTLE , PETER ASTON-WICHETT , RAY PETT, ASTON GAZE, LESLIE ASHTON , CHARLES FENWICK , DOREEN TURNER , DAVID SUTTON , MR CADMAN , W. E. MELL , TERRY FLEMING , LYN GOLDBERG , BUNTY KING, BRUNO TURNER , MR THORNTON, NICHOLAS BOGGIS-ROLFE, ROBERT BURNS , ANTHONY RYE.
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 SILVERTHORNE
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON directed by DAVID MUNROW Readers WILLIAM FOX
WILLIAM EEDLE , GARARD GREEN ANTHONY HALL , HAYDN JONES Additional commentary by MICHAEL DRAKE , JACQUETTA HAWKES
Vanity Fair by w. m. THACKERAY Read by DAVID DAVIS
3: Rebecca has need for all her wits
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
David Franklin in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Blackburn, Lancashire
(Sunday'sbroadcast extended)
Grand Finale by JAMES SCOTLAND with Jimmy Logan and Una McLean Business is booming at the Duchess Theatre. Kelvinbank, in November 1929; but a frightening thing has happened at the cinema along the road. The talkies have arrived.
Musical associate IAN GOURLAY Producer EDDIE FRASER
with Richard Mayne
Victoria's Heyday, J. B. Priest lev's illustrated portrait of the 1850s; a new edition of H. G. Wells 's famous ' plain history of life and mankind.' The Outline of History; and a paperback biography of Karl Marx. A. s. BYATT looks at new fiction. And other new books, including the story of the British Museum
Producers MICHAEL HEFFERNAN and KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND
A well-known professional broadcaster talks about something in the recent news which has caught his attention.
(Repeated: Friday, 10.30 am)
Douglas Stuart reporting
The House of Mirth by EDITH WHARTON abridged by ROSAMOND SHAW
Read by Anna Massey
In the aristocratic New York society of the 1900s, Lily Bart was beautiful and still comparatively young. It was expected that she would make a brilliant marriage. But time was no longer on Lily's side and there were occasions when she could be her own worst enemy.
Producer JOHN CARDY
First of 15 instalments
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
