C.27 Farming Today
Presented by ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.9 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
Ancient Parklands
Building, farming, roadways-very little of our countryside has been left free of man's ' improvements.' But in a medieval deer park, scene of this month's Radio Nature Trail, we can still find a picture of the ancient trees, the insects and plants of the primeval English forest.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (from. Bristol: Sunday's broadcast)
Kenneth Robinson Kenny Everett
Vivian Slanshall and, from America, THE CREDIBILITY GAP in a midweek medley of music, humour and comment
Producer RICHARD GILBERT
NEM p 1: What tongue can tell thy greatness (BBC HB 541): Psalm 63; Acts 26, vv 9-20 (NEB): Eternal God. whose power upholds (BBC HB 23)
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conductor KENNETH ALWYN including music by Ernest Tomlinson and Patric Stanford MARGARET WILLIAMS (soprano) with WILFRID PARRY (piano) singing folksongs to operetta Introduced by COLIN DORAN
3: The Concert by NICHOLAS WOOD and a multitude of helpful people played by ROBIN BROWNE RONALD HERDMAN and MICHAEL KILGARRIFF Producer DAVID CAIN
Presenter Joan Yorke Your Rights and Responsibilities
Protection and Advice for Consumers: LUCILLE HALL investigates the work of a trading standards department.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
Based on the book by HENRY CECIL starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby in .4 Piece of Cake
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Big Blue Wheel by RUTH PAINE
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSXY and International Orchestras including music by Berlioz, Joseph Strauss and Grieg PHILIP CHALLIS playing piano music by Dussek, Smetana and Chopin
This Fantastic New System by GAIE HOUSTON with Angela Pleasence and Alethea Charlton
A baby snatcher gets three months ' holiday in Majorca followed by a child-care guidance course! What kind of a fantastic new system is this?
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
Ah! Seaweed smells from sandy coves
And thyme and mist in whiffs, Lark song and seasounds in the air
And sptendour, splendour everywhere
The waterways of the East Midlands, a nature trail on the lower slopes of the Cambrian mountains, wildlife in the Scottish Highlands, and a balloonist's-eye view of Herefordshire make up part of this pattern of summertime in the British countryside with NEVILLE POWLEY
DON MOSEY , ERIC SIMMS and BOB DANVERS-WALKER
Introduced by c. GORDON GLOVER Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
(Repeated: Sunday, 10.10 pm)
The View from Prospect by GEOFFREY MORGAN
Read bv RICHARD HURNDALL 3: The Captain
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Norman Hackforth. Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
David Franklin in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views, with Gerald Priestland reporting from the Democratic Convention
Geoffrey WHEELER recently visited Selsey, Sussex
Producer STEPHEN Williams
by Robin Houston
With Sylvia Coleridge and Pauline Letts
'That summer was hot. 1939. One day I took a picture of him. He was standing on top of the cliff, looking up into the sky, he seemed to be up in the sky, laughing in the sky.'
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
with Magnus Magnusson Out tomorrow:
Hoax, ' the inside story of the Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving affair ' examined by KENNETH ALLSOP
The Sway of the Grand Saloon, a social history of the North Atlantic from 1818 to QE2, reviewed by JOHN DONAT
A. S. BYATT takes her pick from the latest novels and CLAUD COCKBURN reflects on yesterday's best sellers
Producer DAN ZERDIN
An anthology in 13 programmes 2: Edward Thomas (1878-1917) Edmund Blunden (born 1896) Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) W. H. Davies '(1871-1940) Harold Monro (1879-1932)
Introduced by Anthony Thwaite Reader GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Kim by RUDYARD KIPLING abridged by E. P. THORNE Read by JOSS ACKLAND Last of 15 instalments Producer JOHN CARDY
preceded by Weather