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 Michael Parkinson
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 2 Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES )
8.40 Today's Papers
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY (7)
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
Max Bygraves plays some of his favourite records and explains why they give him particular pleasure (Repeated: Friday, 8.30 pm)
NEM p 19; Christ be with me (BBC HB 136); Psalm 15; Matthew 12, w 22-32 (RSv); Jesu, lover of my soul (BBC HB 145)
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by TERENCE LOVETT Handel and Offenbach DEIRDRE DUNDAS-GRANT (bassoon)
WILFRID PARRY (piano) Pierné and Hurlstone
Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN
by EMMA SMITH
Read by MARGARET JOHN 2: Tyler's Place
Presenter Jeanine McMullen YOUT Home and Family
Learning to Make a Good Buy: LUCILLE HALL goes back to school to watch consumer education in progress.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA)
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler with Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley, John Graham, Sheelah Wilcocks
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Hippo who had no Clothes by JANICE RANDALL
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES
Including music by Ravel, Elgar and ballet music from ' Sylvia ' by Delibes ANTHONY GOLDSTONI Includes piano music by Mompou, Percy Grainger and Dohnanyi
by JOHN BUCHAN
Adapted for radio In six episodes by WINIFRED CAREY from The 39 Steps and Mr Standfast with Fraser Kerr as Richard Hannay
2: The Hawk Swoops
Other parts MARTIN FRIEND
WILLIAM SLEIGH , LEWIS STRINGER and PETER TUDDENHAM
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
A year of Gardeners' Question Time
KENNETH FORD recalls some of the places visited and some of the questions asked during the past year: with FRED LOADS . BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL Producer KENNETH FORD
Ayo Gurkha! by J. M. MARKS Reader GARARD GREEN
2: Off to the Wart
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
A comic tour of the British Isles guided by Frank Muir stopping this week in London
With illustrations from PETER REEVES and the voices of STEP-
TOE AND SON, THE GARNETT FAMILY. ALAN BENNETT , JOYCE GRENFELL , PETER SELLERS and many others Research by TONY ASPLER Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestiand presenting world news and views
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Ring George Scott to put your question on housing in person tn
Stanley Morton , Chairman, the Building Societies Association To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward as well as while the programme is on the air.
Producer WALTER WALLICH
We swear that we will take part in the Olympic Games in fair competition .. with the desire to participate in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the honour of our country and for the glory of sport
On the eve of the Olympic Games in Munich Roger Bannister reflects on the Modern Olympiad, founded by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1896. With the help of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives, Dr Bannister recalls some of the athletes who have taken part in the Games in the 76 years since their foundation, and examines the role of the Olympic Movement in the world today
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Munich People and Harold Abrahams ' Choice: pages 4-5)
Sir Garnet Wolseley 's fears of a French invasion through the tunnel as seen in the United States in 1882 by Puck Brian Connell investigates the hopes of a land-link to Europe 100 years after the formation of the first British Channel Tunnel Company.
What are the economic and political realities?
Producer JOHN TURTLE
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
'This flow of a primitive world into my imagination was so rich that I constantly turn to it as a person might on a cold winter's night to a fire for warmth.'
Author Laurens van der Post talks to Jeanine McMullen about his childhood in Africa.
The Devil's Advocate by MORRIS WEST
Read by DAVID GARTH (9)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
