6.27 Farming Today
Presented by ROBIN HICKS
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 Robert Robinson and John Timpson
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
Contributed by the BBC's. Foreign News staff
9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools Treasure in Soreton by R. E. T. LAMB : part 4
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Movement and Music 2 for the 6-to-7-year-olds
nem p 19; Jesus, where'er thy people meet (BBC HB 263); Canticle 9; Acts 17, vv 16-27 (NEB); Jesus shall reign Where'er the sun (BBC BB 460)
DEREK PARKER talks to DAME NINETTE DE VALOIS SALLY GILMOUR, NORMAN MORRICE and SIR FREDERICK ASHTON and assesses Marie Rambert's extraordinary contribution to ballet in this country and, through that, to ballet in the Western world as a whole.
Producer KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND
11.0 Movement and Music 1 for the 5-6 year-olds by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club
Presented by GARY TAYLOR
We are probably seeing tht last of the tiger in its wild state and man alone has been responsible for its extermination.
GUY MOUNTFORT describes the tiger in its jungle world - a world soon to lose these magnificent beasts.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Presenter Joan Yorke
Your Home and Family
There's a funny smell.... KIT VAN TULLEKEN has a sniff around some common - and not so common - household aromas.
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 WIA IAA)
A panel game (?) starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie with Barry Cryer in the chair and Dave Lee at the piano.
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Mrs Mitten 's Birthday Hat by NANCY NORTHCOTE
Mary Wilson plays some of her favourite records and explains why they give her particular pleasure.
2.40 Stories and Rhymes (7-9) ' Greyling ' by JANE YOLEN
Producer ELIZABETH ANDERSON
by MRS GASKELL adapted by ELIZABETH BRADBURY and DENIS CONSTANDUROS with Written in 1863 - two years before her death - Mrs Gaskell returns to the background of her childhood, Whitby, here called Monkshaven.
1: Visions of the Future
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
(Jane Freeman is a member of the Birmingham Repertory Co)
Journey to Ardmore written and read by John Ridgway
2: Search for Adventure
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 Whilfield Patrick Moore
William Rushton
Devised and shuffled by IAN MESSITER
Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
A Night at The Paragon with PETER REEVES , PAT WHITMORE and CHARLES YOUNG MUSIC-HALL SINGERS directed by CHARLES YOUNG LONDON STUDIO PLAYERS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by ALFRED RALSTON Chairman Roy Hudd
Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
(Roy Hudd is at the Wellington Pier Theatre, Great Yarmouth)
' Pilotless aircraft' ' flying bomb,' buzz bomb,' ' doodlebug' ... whatever you called it, you will never forget the sound it made, or the havoc it caused, if you were living anywhere near London in the weary wartime summer of 1944. Narrator David Mahlowe Readers JOHN BLAIN
RONALD HARVI , PAUL WEBSTER
Written by NORMAN LONGMATE Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON
A. J. P. TAYLOR and MICHAEL FOOT , MP discuss the life and times of William Maxwell Aitken , first Baron Beaverbrook (1879-1964), newspaper proprietor, politician, War Cabinet Minister, historian.
They recall the colourful personality of a man they both knew as a friend. Alan Taylor has recently written a book on Beaverbrook which will be published later this month. Producer ROBERT fox
David Low cartoon: Evening Standard
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Perfect Stranger by P. J. KAVANAGH read by EDWARD FOX (4)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
