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 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
A magazine edition of this programme about wildlife and the countryside.
(Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.31 History in Evidence Roman Britain
5: The recall of Agricola from northern Scotland written by BRENDA RALPH LEWIS
9.45 Listening and Reading I
The Thingummyjig, by R. C. SCRIVEN
9.55 La Parole aux Jeunes French III. 5: Les loisirs edited and compiled by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
10.5 Poetry Corner Let's hear it again
NEM p 83: The eternal gifts of Christ the King (BBC HB 234); Psalm 50: Eeclesiasticus 38, vv 1-14 (RSV); Ye watchers and ye holy ones (BBC HB 288)
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. 5: You v the team, by KEITH YEOMANS (14/16 age group)
11.20 Discovery. The Unseen World. 2: Fleming discovers Penicillin, by JO MANTON
11.40 Guitar School (9) written by MICHAEL JESSETT
Presenter Joan Yorke Consumer Style
Warmer, cheaper? GEORCE LUCE takes a seasonal look at the benefits and costs of central heating.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see Variations
When in Rome ...
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Happy Little King has a Problem by MOIRA HERBAGE
2.1 Movement, Mime and Music
by James Dodding
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems
Wunderkind by Carson McCullers, read by Ann Murray
2.45 Nature: Kangaroos (Radiovision)
Written by Michael Boorer and presented by John Bull
Mother's Day by JUlES DAWSON with Coral Browne and Frank Barrie
' Mother. I just don'want you to marry again. Is that so strange? '
I It's not a very nice thing to say - to your own mother. Besides, it's none of your business. I wish now I hadn'told you.'
' It's how I feel.'
Where does that get me? ' ' You have me.'
With JANE KNOWLES
Producer GUY VAESEN
Mother, adoptive mother, foster mother. There may be as many as 18 children in the family - sometimes more. ' We feel lost when it gets to 18,' this remarkable mother told LESLIE SMITH.
' You mean it's too small? -
' Not too small - we just feel ... we wish it were larger.' ' Why do you do it? '
' I don'know ... I can only say - it sounds a bit silly - but I can only say I love children ".'
Producer RALPH ROLLS
Allan Quatermain
Read by DUNCAN CARSE 8: War! Red Warl
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
BRIAN JOHNSTON recentlv visited Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset
Night Run to the West
A short story by H. E. BATES adapted for radio by ANTONY KEAREY with Freda Dowie as Lisa and Dennis Waterman as Charlie
' When I married him they said he wouldn'live a year ... but it's the healthv that drop down dead. The sick just go on for ever ... I can'wait like that any more ..."
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
with Kenneth Allsop
' Why study history at all? Why concern ourselves with anything beyond the range of our own time and place?' DR ARNOLD TOYNBEE gives the answers to these questions in discussion about his new one-volume edition A Study of History.
JENNY CALDER considers The Unknown Orwell, a book covering the first 30 years of his life, by Peter Stansky and William Abrahams : and MELVIN LASKY reviews the new novel by ARTHUR KOESTLER , The Call-Gtrts and other new books
Producer ROSEMARY HART
A well-known professional broadcaster talks about something in the recent news which has caught his attention. Tonight's speaker:
Christopher Serpell
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Unconditional Surrender by EVELYN WAUGH
Read by HUGH BURDEN (13)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
