C.27 Farming Today presented by ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning introduced bv Robert Robinson and John Timpson
6.50 Travel news, What's on VHF: Regional news, weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk: at 7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day LORD SOPER
7.50 Travel news
VHF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk: at 8.35* Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations
(Saturday s broadcast: revised)
9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools. Francis, Part 1 by PAMELA VERRALL
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 The World of Work
Unit III: Getting the Job 8: At the Interview written by MARIANNE cook
NEM p 54; Blest be the everlasting God (BBC HB 486); Psalm 36; Genesis 16, vv 1-11 (AV); Father, we praise thee (BBC HB 405)
10.30 History in Focus
Free Trade and After - 3 Going Overseas written by BRENDA RALPH LEWIS Producer ALAN EREIRA
10.45 Intermediate German
Wilhelm Rbntgen , der Entdecker der X-Strahlen written by H. M. KRAUS
11.0 Movement and Music I
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.26 Music Club
11.40 Religion and Life Edwin Muir and his poetry presented by R. E. T. LAMB Producer RALPH ROLLS
Presenter Derek Cooper Home and Family
Mugging. Is it new? Is It on the increase? NANCY WISE looks into the techniques and the ways of defending oneself
Christmas decorations - flower arrangements: JEANINE MCMUL LEN gets advice from MARY BARNARD
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VBF South West: see Variations
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud. Peter Jones and Aim! Macdonald try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm) (Aimi Macdonald is in ' The Mating Game' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William HardcasUe
Story: Barnie Owl and the Big Bell by DENISE SHELDON
2.0 World History
Weavers from abroad written by MARY COCKETT
2.20 Geography
Arizona (radiovision) by ROBERT BERESFORD
2.4i Stories and Rhymes (7-9) Omganda and the gold by HUMPHREY HARMAN
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
The novel by W. Somerset Maugham adapted as a serial in five parts by Howard Agg
(Sunday's broadcast)
North Cape by JOE POYER
Read by STEPHEN THORNE (2)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM s reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Doddy's Daft Half-hour featuring
PAT COOMBS , JO MANNING WILSON TALFRYN THOMAS , JOHN GRAHAM WALLAS EATON
Devised and written by KEN DODD , MALCOLM CAMERON STEWART CAMPBELL
PETER TONKINSON
DAVE DUTTON , CYRIL WALKER Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Ring Robin Day to put your question on secondary education to Dame Margaret Miles, Headmistress of Mayfield Comprehensive School in South London
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.
(Radio Times People: page 5)
To mark the BBC's 50th anniversary a programme of verse which was in the air at the birth of broadcasting in 1922 Sir John Betjeman the Poet Laureate introduces and reads, with Jill Balcon and Gary Watson poems, including
Old Man (Edward Thomas ) Easter. 1916 (W. B. Yeats )
Rhapsody on a Windy Night (T. S. Eliot )
Last Words to a Dumb Friend (Thomas Hardy)
Dulce et decorum est (Wilfred Owen )
Tortoise Family Connections (D. H. Lawrence )
A Subaltern's Love Song (Sir John Betjeman )
Recorded before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. London Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Europe: Journey to an unknown destination
Six talks on the development and future of the European Community bv Andrew Shon field. Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
2: The French Spirit and the British Intruder
In tonight's programme Andrew Shonfield suggests that the arrival of Britain will profoundly alter the balance of power in the European Community and that France's role will be permanently changed. Producer GEORGE MACBETH
9.59 Weather
John Tnsa reporting
The Lang Short Cut
Read by EDWARD DE SOUZA (5)
preceded by Weather