6.27 Farming Today
Presented by BRYAN PLAn
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 Robert Robinson
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: 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 8.21 Sportsdesk: at 8.35 Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations
Kenneth Robinson
Kenny Everett , Vivian Stanshall With THE CREDIBILITY GAP and JEFFREY BERNARD in a midweek medley of music, humour and comment
Producer richard GILBERT
NEM p 87; Sing to the Lord a joyful song (BBC HB 19); Psalm 147. vv 1-12; Matthew 18. vv 21-35 (Rsv); Love of love (BBC HB 521)
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH
Conducted by WILLIAM DAVIES ROWLAND JONES (tenor)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
by KEITH MILES
'Sir, After a careful analysis of your correspondence columns. I have come to the conclusion that only the nuts write in! Yours, Jacob Carnovski. '
Letter writers: FRANK WOODFIELD. RALPH LAWTON. PENELOPE SHAW. EILEEN BARRY , PETER BIDDLI and GEORGE WOO1.LEY
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
Presenter Nancy Wise
Your Rights and Responsibilities
The Housing Finance Act: an explanation of the new law and the impact it will have on tenants.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters In What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see Variations
Written and adapted for radio from their television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS The Bishop Beats the System starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon
William Mervyn as the Bishop John Barron as the Dean and Jonathan Cecil as the Chaplain ROBIN BROWNE as Second Verger This week's guest:
Deryck Guyler as The Verger Producer JOHN DYAS
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Here We Go Round by STEPHEN WEAVER
INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRAS including music by Berlioz, Albeniz, and ' The Skaters' Waltz ' by Waldteufel IAN WALLACE singing American and English songs including ' 0 mistress mine by Steve Race with WILFRID PARRY (piano)
I'll Do It Tomorrow by FREDERICK GAZELEY
' I've still got hopes. They're ever so vague, though. To travel, perhaps. Meet different sorts of people, perhaps. Be a little bit wicked, perhaps. It's not too late - I don'think - is it? *
Producer DAVID CAIN
Few women have been so adored as Ellen Terry , perhaps the greatest English actress of her day.
In this radio portrait she is remembered bv
Hilda Barnes. Edward Craig Dame Edith Evans Sir John Gielgud and Dame Sybil Thorndike and Rachel Gurney reads from Ellen Terry 's own memoirs Compiled by PEGGY BRANFORD Producer ALAN HAYDOCK.
The Professor by CHARLOTTE BRONTft Read by JOHN DAGLISH
3: Mademoiselle Reuter
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Here's a a second chance to hear Terry Scott in a comedic extravaganza written by ERIC MERRIMAN with June Whitfield , Hugh Paddick Dllys Watling , Colin Jeavons Music from
THE JACK EMBLOW SEPTET
Producer JOHN BROWELL
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
ALEX MACKINTOSH recently visited Chatteris,
Cambridgeshire
Producer STEPHEN WILLIAMS
,Sunday's broadcast extended)
Ottery St Mary , Devon
William Fox. Mary Kcrridge and Bill Owen in Mind the Gap A comedy by FREDERICK TREVES
LILLIAN: You see. Harold, Arthur and I have tended to drift apart. My friends and interests are so very different from his. There is a little gap, so to speak.
Other parts played by ROBIN BROWNE. CORDELIA MANSAU. KATHERINE PARR and WILLIAM SLEIGH
Producer COLIN TUCKER
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
(Andrew Sachs is in 'A Voyage Round My Father ' at the Hay-market Theatre. London)
with John Julius Norwich
Whereas there is reason to believe that a Continent or Land oj great extent may be found to the southward ... you are to proceed in order to make discovery of the Continent above mentioned
Two new volumes about the great seaman and explorer Captain James Cook reviewed by ANTHONY SMITH.
REX WARNER talks about his study of some of the great Athenians of the fifth century BC. Men of Athens; ANTONIA FRASER follows The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny: and Susan Hill's latest novel The Bird of Night is reviewed by LORN A SAGE
Producer DAN ZERDIN
An anthology in 13 programmes 9: Dylan Thomas (1914-53) George Barker (born 1913)
Introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE Reader GARY WATSON with the voice of DYLAN THOMAS Producer GEORGE MACBETH
John Tusa reporting
A Room with a View by E. M. FORSTER
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (3)
preceded by Weather
