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 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 (3)
An Animal Muscum! : a visit to the Cotswold Farm Park
White-faced Woodlands. West Highlands. Gloucester Old Spot - many traditional breeds of farm animals are no longer commercially produced, but their extinction would be an irreplaceable loss. Not only are they delightful creatures in themselves, but they may prove of great value to stock-breeders in the future.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: Sunday's broadcast)
plays some of his favourite records and explains why they give him particular pleasure. Ornithologist, explorer, artist - all blend as we hear the musical choice of a self-confessed ' slow-movement man.' Producer CAROLE STONE
NEW p 87; My God. how wonderful thou art (BBC HB 12); Psalm 147, vv 1-12: Jeremiah 31, vv 27-34 (AV): Christ, whose glory (BBC HB 137)
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND
ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conductor KENNETH ALWYN includes music by Tchaikovsky, Litolff and Malcolm Arnold
TOMMY REILLY plays the harmonica, with WILFRID PARRY at the piano
Introduced by Colin Doran
Four morning plays from the British Isles
2: Something Like Tennis by WILLIAM ANDREW
' We have the tennis club right next door. We chose the house specially for that. Actually the wall is too high to let us see the courts. I can watch from the bedroom upstairs.'
Producer GORDON EMSLIE (from Scotland)
(Tomorrow: from N Ireland)
Presenter Nancy Wise Your Rights and Responsibilities
Neighbourhood Advice Centres: What are they and how do they work? JUNE rose investigates. 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)
Based on the book by Henry Cecil
Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby
with John Glyn-Jones as Grimes, Julia Lockwood as Sally, Bridget Armstrong as Joy, Jean Anderson as Mrs Thursby, Blake Butler as Alec, Alan Curtis as Maxbury, Edward Kelsey as Turnweather, William Fox as the Coroner, John Samson as Tomlinson, John Rowe as the Man in Train
Written by Henry Cecil and Basil Dawson
(Monday's broadcast) [Repeat]
(Richard Briers is in "Butley" at the Criterion Theatre, London; Alan Curtis in "All My Sons" at the Forum Theatre, Billingham)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
(Tuesday's broadcast)
Story: The Little Red Bucket by DINAH ROWBURY
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE includes music by Walton, Faure and Chabrier's Espafia VALERIE TRYON (piano) plays Mendelssohn and Poulenc
by Helen Keith Smith
With Irene Sutcliffe, Aline Waites , Pauline Delaney
The morning after the night before bitter things are said and personal secrets revealed - but in the end does it really matter?
A tribute, with gramophone records, to Marian Anderson , who celebrated her 70th birthday earlier this year, based on her memoirs.
Written and introduced by CMARLES OSBORNE followed by an interlude
The Three Musketeers Read by MARTIN JARVIS
3: The Cardinal's Conspiracy
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0Regional news, weather and programme news
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Presented by Adam Raphael
Roy TREVIVIAN recently visited
Hythe, Hampshire
East of Christmas A play for radio by PETER YELDHAM
The action of the play starts in Broome, Western Australia, and continues at sea in a pearling boat bound for waters east of Christmas Island.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
( Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
with Marghanita Laski
Who, With H. R. F. KEATING , looks at recent crime fiction. including Abracadaver, Peter Lovesey 's latest Victorian period piece and NIGEL CALDER reviews The Doomsday Syndrome by John Maddox , a hopeful analysis of such contemporary topics as over-population and pollution RICHARD MAYNE on his new bouk The Europeans, which asks the question: ' Who are we? ' v. S. PRITCHETT reviews One Rare Fair Woman, Thomas Hardy 's letters to Florence Henniker. the model for the heroine of his novel Jude the Obscure and other new books Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(John Maddox. takes part in Analysis, Friday, 9.15 pm)
A well-knoun professional broadcaster talks about something in the recent news.
John Tusa reporting
3: A couple, the husband once in a Japanese prison camp, the wife once a cancer patient, tell June Rose why they turned to social work.
(Fourth programme: tomorrow)
Cone of Silence by DAVID BEATY Read by DAVID TATE (10)
preceded by Weather