6.27 Farming Today presented by ROBIN HICK.
645 Prayer far the Day
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson f.50 Travel news. What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER VHF: Regional news, weather
655 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 BLAIN FAIRMAN 3: Father Hires a Cook
Fungus Foray
Early October is probably the best time of year for fungi, so that's the theme of this month's Radio Nature Trail. First we look at the large and spectacular fungi in a wooded valley, and then down to a fen where the fungi are minute-but equally fascinating.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History in Evidence. Roman Britain 4: A Roman Palace written by TONY NORTON
9.45 Listening and Reading I
Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse bv URSULA MORAY WILLIAMS : part 2
9.55 La Parole aux Jeunes French III. 4: L'école compiled by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
10.5 Poetry Corner Algy and the Bear
NEM p 61: Lift up your heads (BBC RB 34); Psalm 97; Matthew 26, v 69, to 27, v 5 (RSV); 0 for a thousand tongues to sing (BBC HB278)
10.30 Music Workshop II
Continuing the story of Mutiny on the Cutty Sark by JOHN PARRY , with music arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS
11. Inquiry. Unit I: Sporting Life. 4: Money in Sport, with music and interviews by TERRY LYNCH. Singers TERRY and GILL (14-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. The Unseen World. 1: It just growed by ARTHUR VIALLS
11.40 Guitar School (7)
Edited by DOUGLAS COOMBES
Presenter Joan Yorke Consumer Style
Humidifiers - what do they do and are they worth it? SUSAN DENNY finds out.
With other items and 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 Loses his Chaplain starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon
William Mervyn as the Bishop John Barron as the Dean and Jonathan Cecil as the Chaplain Guests: Joan Sanderson as Mrs Pugh-Critchley
Julia McKenzie as Felicity 1
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Granny Apple's Garden Fence by PAULINE HILL
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music I by JAMES DOODING
2.20 Books, Plavs, Poems
The Catbird Seat by JAMES THURBER read by DAVID BATTER Producer STUART EVANS
2.45 Nature. Dogs: written and presented by MICHAEL DOORER. With MICHAEL STOCKMAN
The Rise of Gerry Logan A radio play by BRIAN GLANVILLE from his novel with Ronald Forfar as Gerry Logan
' What can I do? Football's my life. When I was 17 they persuaded me to go full time.' ' They? '
' The people who run this game and treat footballers like peasants.'
Producer R. D. SMITH
(Ronald Forfar is a member of the Tyneside Theatre Company)
A conversation between
Sybil Thorndike , Athene Seyler and Basil Dean in which they talk about the changes in the theatre which they have seen over the years. SEYLER: But now we're all so busy trying to be like life.
THORNDIKE: Smaller than life.
SEYLER: Theatre in those days used to be larger than life - more beautiful - louder and funnier.
Producer HALLAM TENNYSON 1
(Dame Sybil celebrates her 90th birthday on 24 October. See Midweek tonight, BBC1 10.45)
Allan Quatermain
Read by DUNCANCARSE
3: Vmslopogaas plans a Battle
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news. weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Problems from listeners' letters discussed by: Renée Houston, Teddy Beverley Janet Hitcbman , Rachel Heyhee In the chair Anona Wlnn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRtSTOPHER SERLZ
(Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestiand presenting world news and views
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As the Conservative Party Conference meets in Blackpool, ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Lord Carrington, the Party's Chairman and Secretary of State for Defence, speaking from Blackpool.
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward until the end of the programme
Producer WALTER WALLICH
by Don Haworth
'We've everything to live for. The rain has stopped and the birds are returning and all our past lies before us.'
Producer Tony Cliff (from Leeds)
('The Enlightenment of the Strawberry Gardener' by Don Haworth - Friday, 9 pm R3 - is among a printed collection of his radio plays, entitled We All Come To It In The End: a BBC publication at £2.75)
with John Julius Norwich
Queen Victoria - her life and times: ELIZABETH LONGFORD on the first volume of Cecil Woodham-Smith 's comprehensive biography of ' the Grand-mother of Europe.'
Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin: at 91 the ever-popular P. G. Wodehouse has come up with a sequel to The Luck of the Bodkins: MILES KINGTON looks at this novel and at a new G. K. Chesterton omnibus, Selected Stories.
Rose Macaulay recalled by CONSTANCE BABINGTON SMITH , her cousin and biographer. and other new books Producer MIRIAM RAPP
An anthology in 13 programmes 13: Ted Hughes (born 1930) Sylvia Plath (1933-1963)
Peter Redgrave (born 1932) Geoffrey Hill (born 1932)
Introduced by PETER PORTER Reader GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
3: Erik de Mauny. BBC Moscow correspondent, discusses how the Soviet Union uses broadcasting to entertain and M instruct.
Unconditional Surrender by EVELYN WAUGH
Read by HUGH BURDEN (8)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
