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: sec Variations
9.5 Religious Service for Primary Schools
9.25 Material for Assembly
'The Kingdom within': extracts from the Upanishads presented with comment and music by MOHAN SINGH
9.35 The Bible: How and Why by ROBERT C. WALTON. 5: How the Gospels were written (i)
9.55 Movement and Music I
NEM p 87; All things bright and beautiful (BBC HB 3); Psalm 100: Revelation 1. vv 4-18 (NEB); My God, accept my heart this day (BBC HB 356)
10.30 La France Aujourdhui
French IV. Toujours de service: written by ARIEL DAIGRE
10.45 Horizons de France
French V. La famille francaise (i): written by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE
11.0 Time and Tune The Sleeping Beauty
Introduced by JOHN CAMBURN
11.20 Man
Dinosaurs, by MARGERY MORRIS Narrator BARRY FOSTER
11.40 Geography. Newport - a Severnside seaport, by GRAHAM HUMPHRYS
Producer ALEX HUNTER
Presenter Nigel Murphy Health and Welfare
Pregnancy Tests: ' Tell me doctor, how can 1 be pregnant after two negative tests? ' JUNE ROSE examines the ' infallibility ' of these tests which many of us take for granted, sometimes with unfortunate consequences.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behi nd the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Little Car Has a New Coat by LEILA BERG
2.0 Living Language
The Iliad: Homer's epic poem adapted in a verse translation by KENNETH CAVANDER. 1: The Wrath of Achilles
2.2* Movement and Music 11
2.40 Learning about Life
5: Who's Emotional?: programme arranged and introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
Night Run to the West
A mixture of the skittish, the sceptical and the scurrilous, but never, we hope, the snobbish, the self-righteous or the soporific.
Producers MICHELL RAPER and ROBERT FOX
Allan Quatermain
Read by DUNCAN CARSE
9: The Battle of the Pass
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Pricstland presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday. 4.0 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Before the first night of his opera Carmen, Bizet foresaw ' a definite and hopeless flop.' He was right - and three months later he died. broken by its failure.
But within a year the opera had begun its triumphal progress through the opera houses of the world.
Narrator BRIAN TRUEMAN
Written by IAN HORSBRUGH Producer GILLIAN HUSH (from Manchester)
A weekly magazine of the arts Presented by Philip Oakes
With less than a month before the us Presidential Elections, the film The Candidate opens in London, starring Robert Redford. How authentic is its background?
The Royal Shakespeare Company completes its Roman play cycle with Titus Andronicns at Stratford-upon-Avon. Has the sequence thrown new light on Shakespeare's Rome?
Kenneth MacMillan 's new work for the Royal Ballet opens at Sadler's, Wells. Will the critics love it or loathe it?
Producer PATRICIA BRENT
Each week New Worlds looks for ideas, experiments and inventions in the world of science and technology.
Paul Vaughan gathers the threads together and brings you up to date with what is going on in the laboratories and workshops.
Among tonight's items will be reports on science and technology in Canada from BRIAN MEREDITH : snowmobiles and hovercraft, the vanishing technology of the Eskimo. and how the polar bear is affected by pollution.
Producer MICHAEL TOTTON
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting from Paris, with John Tusa in London
Unconditional Surrender by EVELYN WAUGH
Read by HUGHBURDEN (14)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
