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 Douglas Cameron and John Timpson
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
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
Bing Crosby
Barbara Mullen discusses with DEREK JONES her enthusiasm for birdwatching, especially in her Irish homeland, and chooses wildlife recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer JOHN BURTON ‡
NEM p 7; Awake, my soul (BBC HB 403); Psalm 8: Acts 27, vv 1-17 (NEB); Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round (BBC HB 321)
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by KERRY WOODWARD evoking ' ghosts and magic' LONDON CZECH TRIO playing music by Brahms, Suk, Haydn, Schubert Introduced by COLIN DORAN
5: The Tuner by ERIC TWINAME with Joan Matheson and Aubrey Woods
When a piano tuner applies his revolutionary ' methods not only to the instrument but also to a middle-aged widow, the comic situation that results has unexpected overtones.
Piano ANNA BERENSKA
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
12.0 Announcements
Presenter Joan Yorke Your Own Time
Giving a Face Lift to Your Car: DOUGLAS MITCHELL with some practical tips for the non-mechanically minded.
And other topical items too
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: Luke and Lucy the Two Street Lamps by PHYLLIS SMITH Presenter Elizabeth CASSIE Scripts by LESLIE PITT
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by ALUN FRANCIS including music by Suppe and Gounod
Philip Challis playing piano music by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky
Selected for Friday
A comedy for radio by Terrance Dicks
Newly qualified and full of youthful idealism, Matthew Larrabie joins his uncle's firm of solicitors. But George Larrabie has a criminal practice, and Matthew finds himself defending hardened villains like Ginger Smith. Fred Selby, the little man in trouble, is much more Matthew's sort of client. But a lawyer's life can be full of surprises - as Matthew finds out...
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs.
The View from Prospect by GEOFFREY MORGAN
Read by RICHARD HURNDALL 5: The Return
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team including
STEVE RACE'S Radio Times Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
9: Northern Ireland
(Book, 35p: see page 55)
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views, with Gerald Priestland reporting from the Democratic Convention Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Script and selection by JEAN STROUD
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
(Repeated: Saturday, 4.30 pm)
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Robens Jack Jones
Lady Barnett Michael Barratt
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Liverpool
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm)
The Rt Hon Denis Healey , up in conversation with GEORGE SCOTT about the major domestic and international issues of the day.
Producer ROLAND CHALLIS
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEDY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week
The Eustace Diamonds by ANTHONY THOLLOPE
Read by GERALDINE MCEWAN (2)
with DENISE COFFEY. JONATHAN CECU DAVID GOODERSON , DAVID JASON BILL WALLIS and PETER PONTZEN at the piano Written by PETER SPENCE and CHRISTOPHER LANGHAM Producer SIMON BRETT
(Denise Coffey is a National Theatre player at Young Vic)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
