6.27 Farming Today
Presented from the Royal Show at Stoneleigh by ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6. 50-7. 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
On the panel: WENDY GREENGROSS JAMES HEMMING , MARY STOTT and DAVID WATSON
In the chair Jean Metcalfe
Johnny Morris goes ' island-hopping ' across the Pacific Ocean.
He visits Hawaii, the New Hebrides, Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga and Fiji, and describes his journey in six instalments. 2: Erromango, Erromango
NEM p 90; 0 Lamb of God all-holy (BBC BB 530); Psalm 23; Acts 24, vv 1-16 (NEB); The King of love (BBC HB 475)
CONTINENTAL ORCHESTRAS and PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) MARTIN GOLDSTEIN (piano)
Introduced by DOUGLAS SMITH
A series of five stories
4: Astronaut by ALLEN HARBINSON
'Abstractionists always changed with the scenery: once there were philosophers, then there were poets, then from the New World came the astronauts.'
Producer GERRY JONES
Presenter Joan Yorke
Your Health and Welfare
What can your Plastic Surgeon do for you? NIGEL MURPHY talks to a consultant plastic surgeon about the physical and pyschologicaJ aspects of having your appearance altered.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
starring A. Gibbon, OBE and featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
with The Dave Lee Group
Written by Bill Oddie
Producers DAVID HATCH and PETER TITHEHADGE
Fact 1: There have been 96 editions of ISIRTA.
Fact 2: The writer/performers emerged collectively or separately into The Goodies, Twice a Fortnight, At Last the 1948 Show and Monty Python.
Fact 3: You've asked to hear this series again.
Fact 4: You'll enjoy it.
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle '
Story: The White China Mug by JO DONOVAN
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND including music by Edward German and J. Strauss RAYMOND COHEN (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano) playing the last movement of Fauré's Sonata in A, Op 13
Something for Nothing
A mixture of the laconic, the luminous, the lovesick, the larkish and the labyrinthine. Producers MICHELL RAPER and ROBERT FOX
Wuthering Heights
9: Heathcliff's Revenge Read by RONALD HARVI and MARAH STOHL
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
If you wish to add your views to any of the subjects discussed in this week's Any Questions! (Friday, 8.30 pm) send them as soon as possible to BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Based on Madame de Pompaaour by NANCY MITPORD adapted for radio by ALAN MELVILLE
2; If there has to be a mistress with Moira Lister Edward de Souza and Alan Melville
A sequence of three programmes depicting the colourful life at the court of Louis XV.
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
(Moira Lister is in ' Move Over Mrs Markham ' at the Vaudeville; Edward de Souza in ' The Philanthropist ' at the May Fair Theatre, London)
A weekly survey of the arts
Introduced by Alexander Walker
Shadow of a Gunman, Sean O'Casey's play set in the crossfire of guerrilla warfare in Ireland during the early 1920s: a new production by Peter James at the Young Vic.
Lloyd George Knew my Father: William Douglas Home talks about his play opening this week at the Savoy Theatre, London, starring Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson.
King Lear: a Russian production, the first in a ten-week Festival of Shakespeare Films at the Globe Playhouse Classic.
Producers ALAN HAYDOCK and MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
Cabinet ministers and eminent scientists, housewives and schoolboys - why do they all listen to New Worlds? After all, it's only a programme of discovery and invention. Presenter PAUL VAUGHAN Producer LAURIE JOHN
Douglas Stuart reporting
Kim by RUDYARD KIPLING
Read by joss ACKLAND (11)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
