6.27 Farming Today presented by BRYAN PLATT
6.45 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
Read by ROBERT HARDY (4)
9.5 Religious Service for Primary Schools
9.25 Material for Assembly Word of Life: an act of Christian worship
Introduced by RALPH ROLLS
9.35 The Bible: How and Why by ROBERT C. WALTON
2: People in the Gospels (i)
9.55 Movement and Music I
NEM p 26: Alone thou goest forth, 0 Lord (BBC HB 79); Psalm 31; Matthew 24, vv 14-28 (rsv); Praise to the Holiest in the height (BBC HB 88)
10.30 La France Aujourd'hui
French IV. Monsieur Richard ouvre un restaurant written by PAULE-ALINE DENT
10.45 Horizons de France
French V. Commentaire de Paris: written by ANTOINETTE BERVEILLER
11.0 Time and Tune The Sleeping Beauty
Script by JOHN EDWARDS
11.20 Man. Life in the Sea by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrator BARRY FOSTER
11.40 Geography. Foulness - Britain's future gateway (ii) by PHILIP HOLLAND
Presenter Jeanlne McMullen Health and Welfare
Relax - and enjoy it: JANE MADDERS gives the first of six sessions of relaxation for everyday life.
How Can You Tell? Drug addiction among the young is an ever-increasing problem, but what can you do? How can you recognise the signs? NANCY wise talks to a doctor intimately concerned with addiction.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see Variations
starring A. Gibbon, OBE and featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall , Bill Oddie
THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Written by BILL ODDIE and GRAEME GARDEN
Producers DAVID HATCH and PETER TITHERADGE (Tim's Choice: page 5)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: My Naughty Little Sister Does Knitting by DOROTHY EDWARDS
2.0 Living Language
Beowulf: The Monster Grendel retold by LEILA DAVIES
2.20 Movement and Music II
2.40 Learning about Life. Being The programme arranged and Introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
Like the Gentleman I Am
A mixture of the laconic, the luminous, the lovesick, the larkish and the labyrinthine. Producers MICHELL RAPER and ROBERT FOX
Uncle Bernac by CONAN DOYLE Read by DAVID GEARY
4: The Court of the Emperor
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
(Tuesdays broadcast)
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald PriesUand
by Elizabeth Nicholas
The quest for the story of seven women who had been wartime agents of SOE dramatised for radio in six episodes by Robert Barr
with Mary Wimbush as Elizabeth Nicholas
1893-1941
Acoustically perfect, physically comfortable, socially agreeable and conveniently placed, Queen's Hall was the centre of British musical life until its destruction in the Blitz.
You just sang and knew it would be equally well heard all over the hall. There was a general feeling of intimacy which I've never felt in any other big hall.
ASTRA DESMOND, FELIX APRAHAMIAN, LEON GOOSSENS and IVOR NEWTON contribute their affectionate memories Written and introduced by JOHN AMIS and illustrated with rare recordings
Producer MADEAU STEWART
A weekly magazine of the arts
Presented by Derek Parker
Tolstoy and the Media
Since World War II War and Peace has inspired several films, a radio serial and an opera-and this week you can see the first of 20 episodes on television.
Jack Pulman discusses his adaptation of the novel for BBC2; Colin Graham talks about his production of Prokofiev's opera opening shortly at the London Coliseum; Ronald Harwood goes back to the source itself.
(Cover story: pages 58-62)
PAUL VAUGHAN takes a look at new inventions, new ideas, and new discoveries in the world of science and technology, and introduces some of the people concerned with them.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
Douglas Stuart reporting
GEOFFREY GOODMAN looks at the problems of shop stewards and trade union officers.
Tonight he talks to RAY HALSEY and RAY HOLMES , Transport and General Workers Union; shop stewards, London Docks.
A Room with a View
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF (14)
preceded by Weather
