6.27 Farming Today presented by ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
introduced by 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 Variation*
Birds of the Concrete Jungle
So many of us nowadays work - and live - in huge blocks of steel, stone and concrete, man-made deserts, with hardly a blade of grass to be seen. Today's Radio Nature Trail celebrates the BBC's 50th anniversary with a bird-watching trip round our own man-made environment, Broadcasting House in London.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History in Evidence Anglo-Saxon Britain
3: The Court of King Alfred written by MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
9.45 Listening and Reading I
9.55 La Parole aux Jeunes French III. 8: Les sports
10.5 Poetry Corner Nine Red Horses
NEM p 58; 0 worship the king (BBC HB 471); Psalm 119, part 3; Genesis 18, vv 1-15 (av); 0 God of earth (BBC HB 394)
10.30 Music Workshop Stage II Continuing the story of Mutiny on the Cutty Sark
11.0 Inquiry
Unit II: A Place Fit to Live In. 3: Fun by JEANINE MCMULLEN (14-16 age group)
11.20 Discovery
Bridges by ARTHUR VIALLS
11.40 Guitar School (15)
Presenter Derek Cooper Consumer Style
Trade price: what are the risks and benefits in buying things ' trade' or from discount warehouses?
VHF South West: see Variationt
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF ; Regional news, weather
Introducer William Hardcastle
Story: Broton Bear Expects a Guest by ELIZABETH ROBINSON
Movement, Mime and Music 1 by JAMES OODDING
2.20 Books, Plays. Poems
Breakfast at Tiffany's by TRUMAN CAPOTE: part 2 adapted by ELIZABETH ORNBO
2.45 Nature
Bird Flight, written and presented by PADDY FEENT
Traitor's Gate
A trilogy of plays by A. R. RAWLINSON 3: Rudi
From the Second World War to the present day it would be hard to find a more devious character than Rudi Thorn , alias Fritz Berg , alias John Stone, alias Norman Rexton
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
CHARLES OSBORNE recalls the celebrated coloratura soprano
North Cape by JOE POYER
Read by STEPHEN THORNE (3)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team S.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
1.55 Weather, programme news
Problems from listeners' letters discussed by Rcnee Houston
Isobel Barnett. Margaret Powell and Linda Blandford
In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
(Repeated: Friday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
with Gerald Priestland
on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Blandford. Dorset
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
Didsbury, Lancashire
A special edition recorded before an invited audience at Pebble Mill,
Birmingham to celebrate the BBC's 50th Anniversary
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
David Franklin and Frank Mutr challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis NordeB In the chair STEVE RACE
with Magnus Magnusson
' had married Alexander Fleming. My country was where he was. But after his death, Greece, and above all Athens, started haunting me again.' Sir Alexander Flem ing's WidOW, AMALIA FLEMING , talks about A Piece of Truth, her account of the Colonels' Greece from which she was deported in November 1971.
HUGH cudlipp on a new biography Only the Wind will Listen: Reith of the BBC by Andrew Boyle , who writes of Lord Reith's conviction that 'his public life had been a ghastly failure ' and other books
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
A well-known professional broadcaster talks about something in the recent news which has caught his attention. Tonight's speaker: Gerald Priestland
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
The Long Short Cut (6)
preceded by Weather
