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 Extraordinary! with DON MACLEAN ; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES )
8.40 Today's Papers
by TOM HOPKINSON read by Joss Ackland
' What you mean is I'm an obsolete animal that ought to have become extinct. So I should. Long ago. I'm the last living representative of the ordinary decent English middle-class - pre-Welfare State model.'
(Abridged for radio)
The story of ' Father ' Willis's greatest masterpiece, the organ at Alexandra Palace in North London, spans nearly a century of Anglo-Saxon attitudes to music. Once described as ' the finest concert organ in Europe,' this immense instrument is partially dismantled and damaged. But some believe it could and should be saved. Speakers include YEHUDI MENUHIN
DR GEORGE THALBEN-BALL HENRY WILLIS IV
SIR HUGH CASSON , IVAN BARWELL and HORRIE BERESFORD
Presented and produced by LAWRIE JOHN
(A revised version of the programme broadcast in 1970)
C. Day Lewis, the Poet Laureate, talks to HALLAM TENNYSON about birdwatching, and introduces some of his favourite birdsongs.
' One of the great things is that you feel you have made the discovery yourself-nobody else has found it for you.!
NEM p 93; 0 Worship the Lord (BBC HB 267); Psalm 138; Acts 13. vv 13-15, 43-52 (NEB); Let all the world (BBC HB 275)
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE MICHAEL WAKEHAM (baritone) with WILFRID PARRY at the piano Introduced by Colin Doran
(Michael Wakeham is appearing in ' Gilbert and Sullivan for All ' at the Opera House, Jersey)
Four morning plays from the British Isles
4: Once Upon a Christmas by DAVID FITZSIMMONS
I think we're going to our
Joan's. Last time we saw her she said " You and Norman'll be all on your own on Christmas Day." Don'you remember? '
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (from Leeds)
John Edmunds presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. your Own Time
Don'get out of your depth: DAVID BELLAN finds out when and where it is safe to swim And other topical items too
Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Norman Haekforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
David Franklin in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Henry's Wooden Bus by KEN METHOLD
Presenter JEAN ROGERS Scripts by LESLIE PITT
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
BBC NORTHERN 1RELANDORCHESTRA conductor KENNETH ALWYN includes music by Tchaikovsky, Bizet and V'irgil Thomson VALERIE TRYON (piano) plays Albeniz, Gershwin, and The Lover and the Nightingale by Granados
Selected for Friday
A Bunch of Blue Ribbons A play for radio by CONSTANCE COX
The action of the play takes place in London at the beginning of the present century. He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons
To tie up my bonny brown hair
Producer DAVID DAVIS
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions! Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
The Three Musketeers by ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Read by MARTIN JARVIS 5: A Reunion of Friends
The news magazine: presented by William Hardeastle and PM's reporting team including
STEVE RACE'S Radio Times
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title Second Round: featuring each week three winners from the first round of the contest. Chairman IAN GILLIES
3: West of England and Midlands
MRS MEG HAMILTON (Somerset) JOHN BAGGS (Dorset) retired lecturer
ANTHONY MARKSON (Nottingham) knitwear manufacturer
Including Beat the Brains ' in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
NANCY wise selects items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday, 4.30 pm)
A spontaneous discussion by The Bishop of Stepney
John Junor, Bryan Forbes Elizabeth Jane Howard Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Merton, Surrey
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answersf should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
The Doomsday Debate
An international discussion about population growth, the use of natural resources and the current ideas concerning what we make of the world we live in In San Francisco:
Dr Paul Ehrlich , Professor of Biology, Stanford University, and author of The Population Bomb
In Paris:
Professor Jacques Monod , Director of the Pasteur Insti tute and Nobel Prizewinner in 1965 in Medicine and Physiology
In London:
John Maddox. Editor of Nature and author of The Doomsday Syndrome, published yesterday In the chair Michael Peacock Producer MICHAEL R. BRIGHT
(Doomwatch returns to BBC1 next Monday)
John Tusa reporting
People tell how they overcame adversity
5: A teacher who suffered a nervous breakdown tells JUNE ROSE of her year's fight to get back to work.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Cone of Silence by DAVID BEATY Read by DAVID TATE (12)
with Denise Coffey
JONATHAN CECIL , DAVID GOODERSON DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS and PETER PONTZEN at the piano Written by PETER SPENCE and CHRISTOPHER LANGHAM with additional material by DAVID RENWICK
Producer DAVID HATCH
(Denise Coffey is a National Theatre player at the Young Vic)
preceded by Weather
