6.27 Farming Today presented by BRYAN PLATT
6.4S Prayer for the Day
The world this morning introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
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 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35 Today's Papers
Regional VHF; see Variations
by H. G. WELLS
Read by ROBERT HARDY (3)
Pelicans Galore: a visit to America's first wildlife refuge. A tiny island, only two miles long, is the home of over 1,000 nesting pairs of brown pelicans: elsewhere in the United States these handsome birds are on the verge of extinction. Introduced by PATRICK MORRIS
Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History in Evidence
Roman Britain. Druids on Anglesey, written by ALAN EREIRA
9.15 Listening and Reading I
Mr Miacca : adapted from Joseph Jacob 's English Fairy Tales, and Brother and Sister by Lewis Carroll
9.55 La Parole aux Jeunes French III. La maison edited and compiled by R. A. ESCOFFEY
10.5 Poetry Corner One-ery, two-ery
NEM p 22; Jesu, grant me this, I pray (BBC HB 517): Psalm 119. part 8; Matthew 23, v 37, to 24, v 14 (rsv); Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (BBC HB369)
10.30 Music Workshop II
Mutiny on the Cutty Sark by JOHN PARRY , with music arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS: written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry. Unit I: Sporting Life. Fans: dramatisation by IAN SHUREY with Interviews by PHILIP HOLLAND
(14-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. Human Biology. Survival of the Fittest by BRIAN GEAR and ARTHUR VIALLS
11.40 Guitar School (3)
Introduced by MICHAEL JESSETT
Presenter Joan Yorke Consumer Style
Amazing offers! Unique bargains! MICHAEL MOLYNEUX explains how the consumer is protected by the Trade Descriptions Act, and by the law of misrepresentation.
Fire! Do you need a fire extinguisher at home, and just how good are they?
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)
VHF South West: tee Variations
The Bishop Gains a Reputation
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Buduleenek and the Fox by SUSAN KODICEK
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music I by JAMES DODDING
2.2* Books, Plays, Poems
Bubble and Squeak by JOHN HOLLIS : a new story specially written for the series, read by the author.
2.45 Nature: Hamsters by CHRISTINE DUDLEY
With BLAIN FAIRMAN , JOHN BULL GARARD GREEN, BRIAN HAINES Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
You Can Take Your Choice A play for radio by CHARLES CAWLEY
'And for God's sake keep a grip on your tongue. If you want to raise the standing of scientists, you're going the wrong way about it. Your behaviour isn'helping anyone.'
Producer \DAVID h. GODFREY
Reflecting some aspects of life in the British countryside at this season of the year.
Harvest time - a time for taking stock and looking ahead:
Hop-picking the modern way; Autumn fairs in the Cotswold country: Grain harvesting on the prairie-like wheatfields of Lincolnshire, contrasted with stone walling around the pocket-sized meadows of Devon and Cornwall; a seasonal look at the red grouse following the ' Glorious Twelfth' with NEVILLE POWLEY , PAUL HUMPHREYS MOLLIE HARRIS , PATRICK DOBBS BOB DANVERS-WALKER
DR ROBERT MOSS and ERIC SIMMS Introduced by C. GORDON GLOVER Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
(Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
Uncle Bernac by CONAN DOYL& Read by DAVID GEARY
3: The Castle of Grosbou
The news magazine: presented by William Hardeastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
Here's a second chance to hear Terry Scott in a comedic extravaganza written by ERIC MERRIMAN
June Whitfield. Hugh Paddiek Dilys Watling , Colin Jeavons THE JACK EMBLOW SEPTET
Producer JOHN BROWELL ‡
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestiand presenting world news and views
ALEX MACINTOSH recently visited
\Dronfleld, Derbyshire
Producer STEPHEN Williams \
by Valerie Murray and Frank Singuineau
with Charles Hyatt and Valerie Murray
Manny Dawson wants to indulge in a little gentlemanly polygamy, but his design for living doesn't appeal to his wife Josephene at all! A Jamaican viewpoint on the eternal triangle.
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
with John Julius Norwich
I would beg you, Sir to observe that the present attempt to liberate women is a revolt against nature, which will bring its own punishment ... August Strindberg's Getting Married provoked an uproar and a prosecution for blasphemy when these stories were published in the mid-1880s. GERMAINE GREER talks about them as they appear in their first complete translation into English.
BASIL BOOTHROYD reviews Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge, and JONATHAN RABAN considers the short stories of Graham Greene and Doris Lessing
Producer DAN ZERDIN
An anthology in 13 programmes 11: Stevie Smith (1902-1971) Sir John Betjeman (b 1906) R. S. Thomas (b 1913) Roy Fuller (b 1912)
Charles Causley (b 1917)
Introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE Readers GARY WATSON and the poets themselves
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Douglas Stuart reporting
Five programmes in which
GEOFFREY GOODMAN looks at the problems of shop stewards and trade union officers.
Tonight, with JACK BESTON , convener, Firestone Tyres, member of shop stewards committee; and JIM O'HAGAN , industrial relations manager.
A Room with a View
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (13)
preceded by Weather