6.27 Farming Today
Presented by Bryan Platt
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
6.50 Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER VHF: Regional news, weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk from Munich; at 7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Travel news. What's on VHF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk from Munich; at 8.35 Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY (17)
Donald Swann plays some of his favourite records and explains why they give him particular pleasure (Repeated: Friday, 8.30 pm)
NEM p 61: Blest are the pure in heart (BBC HB 318); Psalm 145, vv 1-13: Matthew 15. vv 29-39 (Rsv); Gather us in (BBCHB175)
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by TERENCE LOVETT with BARRY KENT and the WILLIAM DAVIES QUARTET
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Read by JERRY STOVIN 2: Among Gorillas
Presenter Derek Cooper Your Home and Family
I don'want to go to school today: educational psychologist JAMES HEMMING and director of Young Phobics STEPHEN LYMAN-DIXON on schoolphobia
Other topical items, too, and What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see Variations
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud, Peter Jones, Aimi Macdonald try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
Devised by Ian Messiter Producer Simon Brett
(Repeated: Thurs. 6.15 pm)
(Aimi Macdonald is in "The Mating Game" at the Apollo Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Richard and the Mynah Bird by MARGARET GILL
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES including Bryan Kelly 's
' Comedy Film for Orchestra ' ALAN LOVEDAY plays violin music by Handel, Schubert's ' Ave Maria ' and ' Hora Staccato ' with WILFRID PARRY (piano)
by JOHN BUCHAN adapted for radio in six episodes bv WINIFRED CAREY from The 39 Steps and Mr Standfast with 4: Hannay Gets Down to Work
Other parts MICHAEL HARBOUR 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
The White Colt by DAVID ROOK Read by PAUL ROGERS (2)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A comic tour of the British Isles guided by Frank Muir stopping this week in Wales and the West Country with illustrations from
PETER REEVES and the voices Of HARRY SECOMBB
KENNETH WILLIAMS
JOHNNY MORRIS
MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN
ADGE CUTLER AND THE WURZELS Research by TONY ASPLER Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
The Rt Hon James Prior , up, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
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
by c. a. RICHARDSON : based on the book The Last Blue Mountain by RALPH BARKER
In 1957 four young members of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club, led by an experienced Himalayan climber, set out on a reconnaissance of Haramosh, a 24,000-ft Himalayan peak. Weather and bad conditions delayed them but they plugged on and eventually at more than 20,000 feet realised thev had reached their maximum possible altitude and completed their task.
The tragedy began when an avalanche swept two members of the party into an ice basin far below. A nightmare saga of courage, tenacity, and endurance was about to begin. Producer ALAN BURGESS
(Shortened version of the broadcast in 1970)
An occasional series on famous French criminal trials by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
The Last Man to be Guillotined In Public
The case of Eugene Weidmann The last public execution in France took place as recently as 16 June 1939 Rayner Heppenstall tells the story of the murder trial which preceded that gruesome milestone in the annals of crime.
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
NANCY WISE talks to men and women forced to leave their native countries who made a reputation and a second home for themselves in Britain.
2: Dora Gordine , sculptor, born in Russia
Let the Hurricane Roar by ROSE WILDER LANE
Read by MARGARET ROBERTSON (4)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
