6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.0 News
The world this morning introduced bv John Timpson 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 CLIVE CUNNINGHAM )
8.40 Today's Papers
by FARLEY MOWAT read by JOHN GLEN (2)
Between 1961 and the end of last year Lloyd's posted 2,766 ships as missing. Despite modern ship construction and improved methods of navigation and communications 74 ships disappeared without trace. They left no radio message, no survivors and no wreckage.
IAIN CRAWFORD talks to the men whose job it is to keep track of the world's shipping and asks how these tragedies occur. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
NEM p 83; 0 dearest Lord (BBC HB 266): Psalm 119, part 6; Jeremiah 18, vv 1-11 (AV); Thy hand, 0 God, has guided (BBC HB 187)
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by TERENCE LOVETT includes music by Mendelssohn and Inghelbrecht
HAROLD BLACKBURN with WILFRID PARRY at the piano sings British songs
Introduced by Colin Doran Producer BARRY KNIGHT
Four morning plays from the British Isles
1: Little Evenings by DIANA MORGAN
'You know, if we weren'four heartbroken widows, I'd say we were lucky women ... Men are a mixed blessing, Ellen Hughes. You have to have one sometime or you feel you've failed. But 15 years of Thomas and I was ready for him to go.'
Producer LORRAINE DAVIES (from Wales)
(Tomorrow: from Scotland)
Your Home and Family 'Spare the rod ... ? '
In this special single subject edition You and Yours invites listeners who have already written about discipline in the home to exchange views live by telephone.
Nancy Wise takes the chair for this experiment in listener participation
For this programme no calls in please
starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
and voices and topics Introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Taddy's Tail by JANE SHAW
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor KENNETH ALWYN includes music by Borodin, Delius and Wilfred Josephs
VALERIE TRYON (piano) plays Ireland, Debussy and Chopin's Scherzo in b flat minor Producer ALAN OWEN
by JOHN MASTERS dramatised in five parts by NORMAN PAINTING with Robin Ellis as Peter Savage Liane Aukin as Emily and Maria Aitken as Peggy Part 4
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
visits Jersey in the Channel Islands
Members of the Horticultural Department of the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Introduced and produced by KENNETH FORD
The Three Musketeers by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Read by MARTIN JARVIS 2: Intrigue at Court
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 RICHARD WILLCOX
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
LAURIE JOHN and PETER ARMSTRONG travelled round Britain meeting leading New Testament scholars to come to their own conclusions about the figure of Jesus.
Part two of the programme is open to you to telephone on [number removed]to add your own points to the discussion or put your own questions to the New Testament scholars in the studio:
Dr George Caird , Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, and Dr William Barclay , Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow
Chairman Laurie John
Production team DENNIS LOWER RICHARD SYMS , PETER ARMSTRONG [number removed](16 lines) will take calls from 7.0 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air
For more than 80 years since its brilliant first night in Rome Cavalleria Rusticana has never faltered in its popularity.
Roger Snowdon tells the story of Pietro Mascagni and his masterpiece
John Tusa reporting
Five programmes in which people tell how they overcame adversity
2: An ex-heroin addict tells JUNE ROSE how he returned to normal living after seven years of addiction.
(Third programme in the series: tomorrow)
Cone of Silence bv DAVID BEATY Read by DAVID TATE (9)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
