6.27 Farming Today
Presented by BRYAN PLATT
S.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
7.25 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 (15)
Mae West
An affectionate portrait of the siren of the silver screen: her best scenes and best lines recalled by PHILIP JENKINSON
(Philip Jenkinson on This Week's Films: page 19)
Many people find it Impossible to lose weight. ' I've only got to look at a cream bun to put on 21bs ' says the fat lady. Frequently fat children become gross adults or at best people continually fighting the battle of the bulge. Why is this?
At University Hospital, Cardiff, patients with a severe weight problem are given severe treatment. They are put on ' starvation diets ' - 200 calorics have to see them through two days. Is this the only answer to obesity?
Presented and produced by CHRISTOPHER LOWELL (from Wales)
NEM p 50; Love of the Father <BBC BB 522); Canticle 2; Matthew 14, vv 23-34 (RSV); Behold the amazing gift of love (BBC hb 484)
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND 'Serenading theladies' with PATRICIA MICHAEL (soprano) and THE GORDON LANGFORD QUARTET Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
(Patricia Michael is in ' Gone with the Wind ' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London)
MARTIN JARVIS reads
William and the Lost Tourist
Presenter Joan Yorke Your Own Time
Have Car, Will Help: a look at the work of ' Contact ' and Handle with Care: the fascinating (and reasonably cheap) hobby of glass engraving
with Stephen Murray
Jon Pertwee , Leslie Phillips A chronicle of events aboard hms Troutbridge
Written by LAWRIE WYMAN and GEORGE EVANS and involving
RICHARD CALDICOT, HEATHER CHASEN TENNIEL EVANS , MICHAEL BATES Announcer MICHAEL 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
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: The Baby Deer by MARGARET GORE
Presentation by ELIZABETH CASSIE Scripts by the producer JENYTH WORSLEY
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by TERENCE LOVETT including music by Tchaikovsky, Johann Strauss and Mozart IAN HUMPHRIS directs
THE LINDEN SINGERS in English folk songs and songs by Britten. Stanford and Haydn
Selected for Friday
The Disagreeable Man
Adapted by C. E. WEBBER from an episode in the book
Ways and Means by HENRY CECIL with Norman Shelley and David Spenser
Tapworth Magna was a friendly typically English village until Basil Merridew and his nephew came to live in the neighbourhood.
Producer MARTYN C. WEBSTER
by RAY COONEY and JOHN CHAPMAN Together Again starringwith
Producer DAVID HATCH
Clear the Fast Lane by DOUGLASRUTHERFORD Read by JOHN ROWE 5: Return Journey
The news magazine: presented by William Hardeastle and PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
A weekly quiz on musical and general knowledge
(Repeated: Monday. 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
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)
Fred Streeter
(Extended version of Tuesday's broadcast)
Twenty years ago the undisputed ruler of the shop floor in industry was the foreman. Nowadays much of his power and prestige has passed to the workers' representative, the shop steward. Yet the foreman still remains the front line of management, coping not only with labour problems but also with technological advances.
Bob Houlton has been talking to some of these forgotten men - and women - of industry. Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON (from Manchester)
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
ROBERT MCKENZIE talks to the women behind some of the leading politicians of post-war politics.
5: Baroness Phillips, widow of Morgan Phillips, General Secretary of the Labour Party 1944-61.and herself a Government Whip in the House of Lords 1965-70.
Let the Hurricane Roar by ROSE WILDER LANE
Read by MARGARET ROBERTSON (2)
A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker
(Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
