6.27 Farming Week: from the first day of the Royal Show at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth 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
MARGHANITA LASKI finds in the BBC Sound Archives a reminder of life in 1947.
Lance Percival. Zena Skinner Linda Blandford , Fritz Spiegl and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week.
Producer HUGH PURCELL
NEM p 80; From all that dwell below the skies (BBC HB 5); Psalm 90 vv 1-6. 12-17; Acts 22, vv 17-29 (NEB); All my hope on God is founded (BBC HB 299)
CONTINENTAL ORCHESTRAS and RAIMUND HERINCX (baritone) MARTIN GOLDSTEIN (piano)
Introduced by DOUGLAS SMITH Producer BARRY KNIGHT
(Raimund Herincx broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
A series of five stories
1: Honolulu by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM adapted for radio by ERIC EWENS
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
Jeanine McMullen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
Onwards, Upwards?: an investigation into trends in house and land prices.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Analysis on The House Price Spiral: Friday 9.15 pm)
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Story: The Yellow Umbrella by ELIZABETH GEORGE
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND including music by Beethoven, Marquina and Bryan Kelly RAYMOND COHEN (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Tchaikovsky and Kreisler Producer ALAN OWEN
The Appointed Hour
Wuthering Heights by EMILY BRONTE abridged for radio in ten instalments by NAN MACDONALD 6: Haunt me, then!
Read by RONALD HARVI and MARAH STOHL
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Based on the book by HENRY CECIL and featuring
And this week's guest star John Le Mesurler as Judge Prime
Written by HENRY CECIL and BASIL DAWSON
Producer TRAFFORD WHlTELOCK (Repeated: Wed, 12.25 pm)
(Richard Briers is in ' Butley ' at the Criterion Theatre, London: Henry McGee in ' The
Man Most Likely To ' at the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
A general knowledge contest between schoolchildren in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Canadian Team Raymond Torbiak, Richard Decter, Joanne Peters
Questionmaster Bob Burton
Australian Team Laurel Meers, Charles Maddison, Igor Nossar
Questionmaster John Dease
(Also broadcast on the networks of ABC Australia, NZBC New Zealand and CBC Canada)
by RACINE translated by JOHN CAIRNCROSS with Sheila Allen , Freda Dowie
Marius Goring , Alec McCowen This. one of the greatest works of the French classical theatre, tells the story of Hector's widow Andromache who was brought as a slave to his capital city by Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, who fell in love with her.
The action takes place at Buthrotum. capital of Epirus, some time after the Trojan War. Producer MARTIN ESSLIN
In 1954, when A. E. Matthews was 85. he joined Gilbert Harding in the studio for one of the ' HardinR Interviews.' The conversation ranged over Royal theatregoing, Matty's liking for ad-libbing, his dislike of Shakespeare and Shaw, and enjoyment of cycling.
(From the BBC Sound Archives)
Douglas Stuart reporting
Kim by RUDYARD KIPLING Read by joss ACKLAND (8)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
