6.58-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.0 News
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Malcolm Billings
7.25 Sportsdesk from Munich
7.30 News Summary
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 News and more of Today
8.25 Sportsdesk from Munich
8.30 News Summary
(In the Midlands and East Anglia, Regional Extra: and from Bristol, Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES )
8.40 Today's Papers
by ROBERT STANDISH
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY (12)
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
Fred Streeter plays some of his favourite records and explains why they give him particular pleasure (Repeated: Friday, 8.30 pm)
NEM p 41; Dear Shepherd of thy people, hear (BBC HB 259); Psalm 119, part 4; Matthew 13. vv 44-58 (Rsv); Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140)
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by TERENCE LOVETT KENNETH MCKELLAR (tenor) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON Producer BARRY KNIGHT
William deserves to be the most famous of schoolboy heroes, for he shows rare imagination and cunning. Martin Jarvis reads:
William Goes Shopping Producer JANE GRAHAM
Presenter Nigel Murphy Your Home and Family
For Those in Peril.... MOLLY PRICE-OWEN talks to FRANK MARTIN , who organises an independent sea rescue service at Hayling Island, and to MICHAEL PORCHER of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
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 in Taking Leave of Their Census With NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY. JOHN GRAHAM Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(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: Mr Brown and Benjy by URSULA DANIELS
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON including music by Trevor Duncan and part of La Boutique Fantasque by Rossini arranged Respighi. THE LINDEN SINGERS directed by IAN HUMPHRIS singing folk songs and spirituals
by JOHN BUCHAN adapted for radio In six episodes by WINIFRED CAREY from The 39 Steps and Mr Standfast with Fraser Kerr as Hannay 3: The 39 Steps
Other parts played by OLWEN GRIFFITHS , EVA STUART WILLIAM EEDLE , JOHN SAMSON 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. ALAN GEMMELL Producer KENNETH FORD
Clear the Fast Lane by DOUGLAS RUTHERFORD Read by JOHN rowe
2: A Small Wooden Boa
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 Scotland with illustrations from
PETER REEVES and the voices of STANLEY BAXTER , HARRY LAUDER PETER SELLERS, TONY HANCOCK ANDY STEWART , JIMMY LOGAN and many others
Research by TONY ASPLER Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Wed. 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
In Bank Holiday week, ring George Scott to put your question on your summer holiday in Britain to
Alderman Norman Haskins , council member of the British Resorts Association and Chairman of its Entertainments Committee.
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
The Gurkhas of Nepal have served the British as mercenary soldiers since the early 19th century, and though much reduced In numbers they still do.
Patricia Penn has visited soldiers of the Brigade of Gurkhas at their camps in Hong Kong, Nepal and Great Britain; and has recorded their voices, their traditional music, their marches and even the unique and terrifying sound of Gurkhas gambling.
Producer ROBERT CRADOCK
J. B. Priestley reads three nightly extracts from his new book subtitled Reflections and Speculations on Life, Death and Time
1: The Society that Dislikes Itself
Before coming to his ideas of what we might find in the next world, and how we might find it, Mr Priestley makes an indictment of what is wrong with our lives and values in this one now. We have lost touch with the past. We belittle the feminine principle. We overrate physical sex. But, even if we are on the wrong planet, we can try to make the best of it.
Producer RICHARD KEEN
(Tomorrow: Redirecting Our Attention)
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
ROBERT MCKENZIE talks to the women behind some of the leading politicians in post-war politics.
2: Baroness Maeleod of Borve, widow of lain Macleod who was Chancellor of the Exchequer when he died in 1970.
The Devil's Advocate
Read by DAVID GARTH (14)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
