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 Mary Marquis
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
by ROBERT STANDISH
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY (4) ‡
to Edgar Lustgarten
(who has added ' without permission ' some examples from the master's works)
' What fascinates me about acting is that a wonderful, beautiful, talented actress can come on the stage and give a performance that really makes your blood curdle with excitement and pleasure, and she can make such a cracking pig of herself over where her dressing-room is, or some triviality, that you hate her. Intelligent actors never do that, but then they're seldom as good as the unintelligent ones.' Producer ALAN BURGESS
Second of three conversations broadcast weekly at this time.
A summer series In which guests are invited to discuss their personal selection of books now available in paperback.
This week Shirley Williams , mp, Lord Redtiiffe-Maud, Master of University College, Oxford, and Ronald Eyre , theatre director, present their choice to DEREK PARKER
Producer ROSEMARY HART
NEM p 4: How glorious Sion's courts appear (BBC HB 493); Psalm 96; Matthew 11, vv 2-15 (Rsv); Praise to the Lord (BBC HB 534)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by TERENCE LOVETT and PETER KATIN (piano)
Introduced by STUART PORSYTH
by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Read by DAVID DAVIS
9: Jim Hawkins , Hostage
Presenter John Edmunds Your Health and Welfare
Cataracts: an eye specialist answers questions about present-day care and treatment.
Other topical items too, and a selection from vour letters in What s On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA IAA)
starring A. GIBBON , OBE and featuring
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Graeme Garden , David Hatch Jo Kendall , Bill Oddie with THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Written by BILL ODDIE and GRAEME GARDEN
Producers DAVID HATCH and PETER TITHERADGE
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: A Day on the Beach by WINIFRED DORAN
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor lAIN SUTHERLAND
Offenbach overture ' Orpheus in the Underworld ' and music by Elgar and Robert Farnon
EDWARD DARLING and URSULA CONNORS singing songs and duets with WILFRID PARRY (piano)
The Freezer
A mixture of the laconic, the luminous, the lovesick, the larkish and the labyrinthine. Producers MICHELL RAPER and ROBERT FOX
The Russian Interpreter Read by CLIFFORD NORCATS 4: The Faculty Dinner
The news magazine: presented by William Hardeastle and PM s reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
FowlPlay
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questionsr Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
A two-part investigation of contemporary heroes and some aspects of the fascination they exert over their worshippers, the fans.
Compiled and presented by PETER CLAYTON
1 : Heroes of the Cinema Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Part 2, Heroes of Popular Music: next Thursday)
A weekly magazine of the arts Presenter Oleg Kerensky including
Antony and Cleopatra, the third new production in the season of Shakespeare's Roman plays at Stratford-upon-Avon, with Richard Johnson as Antony and Janet Suzman as Cleopatra
Producers ALAN HAYDOCK and MIRIAM RAPP
What's happening in science and technology?
Paul Vaughan rounds up the important, the interesting and the off-beat in a weekly look into the world of the future. Producer MICHAEL TOTTON
Douglas Stuart reporting
4: Verkauf oeht wetter: Business as usual
In Cologne it is a short step from the magnificence of the Cathedral to the boutiques and sex shops of the Hohestrasse. Repelled by the relentless materialism of West Germany, WILFRED DE'ATH makes a sentimental pilgrimage to the BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) in the leafy suburb of Marienburg.
The Devil's Advocate by MORRIS WEST
Read by DAVID GARTH (6)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
