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 John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
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
Bob Hope
Spike Milligan talks to Derek Jones about his enthusiasm for wild animals and his concern for their future, aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Producer John Burton (from Bristol)
NEM p 90; Dear Master, in whose life (BBC HB 319); Psalm 95: Matthew 9. vv 14-26 (RSV); Eternal Father (BBC HB 384)
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conducted by MARCUS dods and GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord) Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN
by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Read by DAVID DAVIS
5: How the Ship was Abandoned In which Dr Livesey takes up the story.
Presenter Joan Yorke Your Own Time
The Spectators' View: do they get value for money? Are they properly catered for at football grounds? DAVID DAVIES investigates at the start of the new season
And other topical items too
with Leslie Phillips
Stephen Murray , Jon Pertwee A chronicle of events aboard HMS Troutbridge Written by LAWRIE WYMAN and GEORGE EVANS and involving
RICHARD CALDICOT , HEATHER CHASEN
TENNIEL EVANS , MICHAEL BATES AnnouncerMICHAEL DE MORGAN Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Leslie Phillips is in ' The Man Most Likely To ...' at the Duke of York's Theatre; Richard Caldicot in ' No Sex, Please - We're British ' at The Strand Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Queen of the Circus by MARY CALVERT
Presenter MAUREEN MORRIS
Scripts by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON including music by Chabrier, Butterworth and Jean Francaix GEORGINA ZELLAN-SMITH (piano)
Scarlatti. Douglas Lilburn and Chopin's Fantasy Impromptu
Selected for Friday
Peace: a play for radio by MAGDA SZABO : translated from the Hungarian by GEORGE MIKES
Produced by GEZAVARGA of the Hungarian Radio. Budapest
This radio play by the distinguished Hungarian novelist Magda Szabo was the Hungarian contribution to an exchange of producers and plays between the BBC and Hungarian Radio.
Dame Sybil Thorndike plays the mother of two daughters whose bitter quarrel at last seems to hive ended ...
(Dame Sybil on This Week's Proms: page 11)
Rockets in Ursa Major by FRED and GEOFFREY HOYLE Read by JOHN SHEDDEN 5: The Exploding Sun
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Final
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
NANCY wise makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by jean STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday, 4.30 pm)
A spontaneous discussion by Lady Barnett Vic Feather , Patrick Moore Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Hull. Yorkshire
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be addressed to Any Answers?. BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
George Scott examines what has happened since the 1970 Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act became law. and discusses with some of the people involved what still needs to be done to improve life for the disabled. Producer GILLIAN HUSH ( from Manchester)
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
A foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week
The Devil's Advocate by MORRIS WEST
Read by DAVID GARTH (2)
A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker (Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
