6.27 Farming Today
9.45 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 Douglas Cameron
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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
9.5 An Act of Worship
The Hopwood Family: our Clients' Gaze by R. E. T. LAMB Introduced by RALPH ROLLS
Sidney Harrison , speaking as usual from the keyboard, imagines himself to be Chopin's piano-tuner. Yesterday he attended Chopin's funeral - and this morning he reflects upon the event.... all the fashionable world was there....
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
9.45 Music Workshop Stage 1 Libretto by PAUL TOWNSEND Music arranged by MICHAEL JESSETT
NEM p 61; Come, let us join our cheerful songs (BBC HB 122); Psalm 145. vv 1-13; Wisdom 12, vv 15-22 (RSV); Come ye people (BBC HB 270)
A well-known professional broadcaster talks about something in the recent news which has caught his attention.
followed by an interlude
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY. 24: Ghosts
Three talks by JOSEPH HONE who didn'go to university 2. Education for Egyptian Gentlemen
Just after Suez it wasn hard for an Irishman to get a job at a formerly 'English public school in Egypt.
11.20 Listening and Writing
Sound and Sense: music as a stimulus to writing, including the poem Music ' by A. S. J. Tessimond
11.40 Prospect. Aspects ofhuman biology: the vital processes Compiled by PAUL VAUGHAN Producer TOM BUTCHER
12.0 Announcements
Presenter Derek Cooper Your Own Time
' Toddlers Afloat ': TOM WISDOM reports on the new idea and practice of teaching very young children to swim.
How polluted are our holiday resorts? asks NIGEL MURPHY
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: Hooligan Beaky and the Little Grey Tiger Cat by ANNE WELLINGTON
Presenter ELIZABETH CASSIE Scripts by LESLIE PITT
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
2.0 Let's Join In. Father Gatto retold by BARBARA SLEIGH
2.20 Christian Focus. Man and God: the work of 'Focalare' by LESLIE SMITH
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School: presented by MICHAEL JESSETT (34)
Selected for Friday
Fellow Townsmen: a play for radio by PATRICK SIMPSON freely adapted from the story by THOMAS HARDY
This story, from Wessex Tales, foreshadows Hardy's later preoccupation with Fate and its manipulation of the lives and love of a man and woman.
The scene is the small town of Port Bredy in Dorset, in the latter half of the 19th century.with Other parts HILARY NEWCOMBE BRIAN HARDING , PEGGY TETHER HARRY CARTER
Producer BRIAN MILLER
(from Bristol: broadcast 1969)
The Shamrock Dossier
Read by PETER MARINKER 5: Bunratty Castle
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team, including STEVE RACE'S Radio Times Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Ernest Marples , mp Roy Hatterslcy , mp Judith Listowel Larry Adler
Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Hartlepool, Co Durham
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm)
Recipe for the Regions
Presented by George Scott
After more than a year of official study, new policies are emerging on how to overcome economic inequalities in the regions. One new factor is Britain's coming entry into the Common Market, which could spell hope for less prosperous regions.
Can we devise regional policies acceptable to competing interests at home as well as to our European neighbours? Producer ROLAND CHALLIS
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A foreign journalist based In London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week
Cone of Silence by DAVID BEATY Read by DAVID TATE (2)
In which travellers on the Southern Region pass their time like Chaucer's pilgrims by telling stories.
Written by Mary Edwards (First Prize-winner in the Commuters' Tales competition) and told by Francis Matthews to Kate Binchy, Robin Browne and John Samson.
Producer, Simon Brett.
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm.)
('The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately' - next week)
preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
