6.27 Farming Today presented by ROBIN HICKS
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 Fitwith 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
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
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 (8)
Talking Point: discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the country-side. Introduced by PETER FRANCE Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
(Questions to Talking Point, The Living World, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR)
9.30 History in Evidence
Roman Britain. 3: Polyclitus' investigation of Suetonius Paulinus, written by R. e. T. LAMB
9.45 Listening and Reading I
Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse by URSULA MORAY WILLIAMS : part 1
9.55 La Parole aux Jeunes
French III. 3: Les vacances edited and compiled by R. A. ESCOFFEY
10.5 Poetry Corner Hot Potatoes
NEM p 41; Christ is our corner-stone (BBC HB 258) Psalm 32; Matthew 25. v 31, to 26, v 2 (rsv); Shepherd divine, our wants relieve (BBC HB 348)
10.30 Music Workshop II
Continuing the story of Mutiny on the Cutty Sark by JOHN PARRY. with music arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS
11.0 Inquiry. Unit I: Sporting Life. 3: The big punch by PHILIP HOLLAND (14-16 age group)
11.21 Discovery. Human Biology 3: The Starving Millions
11.40 Guitar School (5)
Producer DOUGLAS COOMBES
Presenter Jeanine McMullen Consumer Style
Wish you weren'here.... GEORGE LUCE investigates some of your holiday problems.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations
The Bishop Buys a Mug
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle.
Story: Pussy Simkin Goes to School by LINDA GREENBURY
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music I by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
The Sailor at the Bus Stop by DOUGLAS DUNN : a new story written specially for the series, read by DAVID BRIERLEY Producer STUART EVANS
2.45 Nature: Hedgehogs written and presented by ELIZABETH ORNBO
All the Prizes
A new play for radio by JOHN GEORGE
' I thought college would be like the Amazon and Knossos. Exciting, heroic.... instead, just little old Heinzmann.'
Producer GERRY JONES
Researching for a book on the history of fish and chips, Gerald Priestland set out to meet some of the grand old men of the trade as well as its new-style pioneers.
His travels took him from the East End of London to Mossley in Lancashire - by way of Abu Dhabi in the Persian Gulf. Producer MICHELL RAPER
Atlantic Fury by HAMMOND INNES Read by HENRY STAMPER 3: Storm
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
S.55 Weather, programme news
Problems from listeners' letters discussed by: Rente Houston, Mary Stocks, Beryl Reid, Rita Merkelis
In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
(Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
(Baroness Stocks can be heard again in Now Read On at 9.0 pm)
(Rptd: Thurs, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland reports from the Labour Party Conference at Blackpool, with Adam Raphael in London
ALEX MACINTOSH recently visited Gwendraeth Valley, Carmarthenshire
Producer STEPHEN WILLIAMS
Jon Rollason in The Lags' Brigade by DAVID ELLIS
Bernard Holland has one basic rule for his office-cleaning firm: only employ old lags - convicted men trying to go straight. But then a client is burgled ...
Producer COLIN TUCKER
with John Julius Norwich
Although I am one of the most serious-minded women in England today I have got the sort of mirth of the British Tommy. I can laugh when I am going over the top - Nancy, Lady Astor. the first woman MP to take her seat in the Commons. BARONESS STOCKS and NIGEL NICOLSON discuss Christopher Sykes 's biography of the ' dazzlingly beautiful Virginian ' - Kancy: the Life of Lady Astor. JOHN RIDGWAY tafks about his adventurous Amazon Journey: from the source to the sea; and new fiction from Edna O'Brien , David Storey. Elia Kazan and Chaim Potok. Producer MIRIAM RAPP
An anthology in 13 programmes 12: Philip Larkin (born 1922) Donald Davie (born 1922)
Elizabeth Jennings (born 1926) D. J. Enright (born 1920)
Introduced by ANTHONY THWAITE Reader HUGH DICKSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
J.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
One man's superstitions:
LINDA BLANDFORD talks to the actor PETER BULL
Unconditional Surrender Read by HUGH BURDEN (3)
preceded by Weather
