6.27 Farming Week: presented from the North by KENNETH FORD
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
6.50 Travel news, What's on 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
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
fascinated by hearing reapers I crying the neck ', was lured into the BBC Sound Archives in search of other curious country customs and beliefs.
Lance Percival , Linda Blandford Fritz Spiegl , Zrna Skinner Kenneth Robinson and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
NEM p 76: Help us to help each other (BBC HB 378); Psalm 118, vv 1-14; Genesis 24, vv 63-67 and 25. vv 20-26 (av): We lift our hearts (BBC BB 223)
directed by NEVILLE MARRINER with GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord) JOHN WILBRAHAM (trumpet) playing 17th- and 18th-century English music gramophone records
A Service of Thanksgiving in Westminster Abbey Fanfare
Hymn: Praise, my soul, the Kmg of Heaven
Introduction by The Dean Introit: Psalm 37
Passages from the 1928 Prayer Book Marriage Service
Read by The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
THE RT REV R. SELBY WRIGHT , CVO, DD
Ephesians 3, vv 14-19 St John 15, vv 9-12
Personal Blessing by The Archbishop of Canterbury Prayers by the Precentor The Lord is my Shepherd Prayers of Dedication
Hymn: Let all the world in every corner sing
Prayer and Final Blessing by THE DEAN
National Anthem with Fanfare CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY
Master of the Choristers and Organist DOUGLAS GUEST TRUMPETERS OF THE
ROYAL MILITARY SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Kneller Hall)
Scene described by AUDREY RUSSELL
by JAMES STEPHENS
' There used to be all kinds of creatures in the world when I was a boy - there was a cow that I remember to this day because I saw her crying....
(From the BBC Sound Archives)
Presenter Joan Yorke Work and Motley
Good Shorthand and Typing ... : what's it really like being a secretary-dead end or start of a worthwhile career? ROSEMARY SIMON investigates
For a Rainy Day?: National Savings are booming. The Chairman of the National Savings Committee. S)R ROBERT BELLINGER , explains who is saving and for what
VHF South West: see Variations
Introduced by Robert Williams
Story: The Bundles Go Fishing by URSULA BOURIHANE
Music for The Queen
An anthology of music for royal occasions
Presented by AUDREY RUSSELL Part 1: Royal Prelude
2.12* GODFREY TALBOT SetS the scene at Guildhall where The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh are being entertained to luncheon by the Corporation of London
Rt Hon The Lord Mayor proposes the toast to
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh
Her Majesty The Queen replies
2.35* Music for The Queen Part 2: Royal Suite
Producers MADEAU STEWART and ARTHUR PHILLIPS
Marius
Great Expectations
The novel by CHARLES DICKENS abridged in ten parts by HOWARD JONES
Read by David Buck
The early chapters, concerned with Pip's childhood. are set in the misty marshlands where Dickens spent some years of his own childhood. 1: The Convict
Producer TREVOR HILL (from Manchester)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening: presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
Written and adapted for radio from their television series by Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps
starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon, William Mervyn as the Bishop, John Barron as the Dean and Jonathan Cecil as the Chaplain
This week's guests: Hugh Paddick as Mr Fox, Frank Williams as Mr Dawson, Dudley Jones as Mr Parry Jones
(Repeated: Wed, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
with Gerald Priestland
1939-1945
Five programmes from an award-winning series first broadcast in 1969 of crucial events in the War at Sea. 1:
A Classic Action The story of the Battle of the River Plate - part 1
Narrated by Michael Flanders with Eric Francis and WILFRID CARTER , PETER PRATT
JAMES THOMASON. PETER TUDDENHAM and LOCKWOOD WEST
Naval Historical Adviser
LTCMDR PETER KEMP . OBE, RN (Ret) Written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES
After a comic tour of the Continent this week Frank Muir takes a rather surprised look at
How They See Us with illustrations from HUGH PADDICK and the voices of JOHN CI.EESE, TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN
GERARD HOFFNUNG
NINA and FREDERIK PETER SELLERS and SOPHIA LOREN EARTHA KITT and others Producer SIMON BRETT
The Government Inspector
NIKOLAI GOGOL'S comedy freely adapted by HENRY LIVINGS
' Gentlemen. I've a piece of very unpleasant news for us all. The Royal Commission on Local Government Practice is sending an Inspector here.' John Alexander St John Lestocq-Granville, Assistant-
Assistant Under Secretary at
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (from Leeds)
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Long Short Cut by ANDREW GARVE
Read by EDWARD DE SOUZA. (9)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
