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 BISHOP TREVOR HUDDLESTON
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
The Span of Years
A plaice has been known to live to the age of 35. a swift to 21. a tortoise to at least 152 years. These are the Methuselahs of their species, so far as we know, but what length of life can the ' average animal ' expect?
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History in Evidence Anglo-Saxon Britain
5: The Coming of the Danes written by MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
9.45 Listening and Reading I Shadrach by MEINDERT DEJONG 2: The coming of the Rabbit
9.55 La Parole aux Jeunes
French III. 10: L'Anglais et la Grande-Bretagne
Edited and compiled by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
10.5 Poetry Corner
The Holly and the Ivy
NEM p l; Teach me, 0 Lord (BBC HB 473): Psalm 99; 1 John 5. vv 1-6. 8-13, 18-21 (NEB); The God of Abraham praise (BBC HB 283)
10.30 Music Workshop Stage II The Cutty Sark: a full performance of the true sea story by JOHN PARRY with music arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS Producer WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry
Unit II: A Place Fit to Live In. 5: Whose decision?, part 2
A documentary play by JIM CRACE (14-16 age group)
Series producer JOHN PARRY
11.20 Discovery
Bridges today (radiovision) by BOSWELL TAYLOR
Series producer ARTHUR VIALLS
11.40 Guitar School (19)
Written and introduced by MICHAEL JESSETT
Presenter Joan Yorke Consumer Style
Sounds good value to me: expert opinions on what to look for, and what to avoid, when buying hi-fi for the home- and what is hi-fi anyway?
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations
The Bishop Shows his Loyalty
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Turnip Soup retold by BIDDY BAXTER
Movement. Mime and Music I for the 7-9-year-olds by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books, Plays, Poems Listeners' own stories
2.45 Nature
The Coming of Winter by CHRISTINE DUDLEY
Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
How I Came to Help People by GEOFFREY PARKINSON with Martin Jarvis and Miriam Margolyes
Geoffrey Parkinson describes this autobiography as ' one man's struggle to failure.' As a schoolboy he had a vision of his future life; it left little room for optimism. But nobody can throw in the sponge at 16, so what was he to do with himself?
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
In 1916 at the age of 31 George Butterworth , one of Britain s most promising composers, was killed at the Battle of the Somme, while ' defending a trench.'
His interest in music started at school and continued at Oxford. He was a perfectionist. Before he went away to war he destroyed most of his manuscripts. In this account of his early life. his search for the enduring folk music of England, and his premature and tragic death, we hear again his elegiac ' A Shropshire Lad Rhapsody '; also several of A. E. HOUSMAN 'S poems which Butterworth set to the most enchanting melodies.
Script by MARY-JEAN BASLER Producer ALAN BURGESS
Great Expectations Read by DAVID BUCK
8: The Plan oj Escape
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Problems from listeners' letters discussed bv Renée Houston Florence Desmond
Juno Alexander , Sally Beauman 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)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Oadby, Leicestershire
A Burning Question A comedy for radio by JAMES SCOTLAND with Russell Hunter
'This is a great day for you, of course, Provost. You'll not have met Royalty before There's nothing to it really. Just be natural - I've always found that's the way. Ay. still, you ve got a nasty day for it.'
Producer GORDON EMSLIE (from Scotland)
with Magnus Magnusson
' I love you very much darling, but I am a very distinct type, very reflective, very egotistical, very prudent, very uncomplicated and. with all this, absolutely sure of myself ..." Arnold Bennett in Love : ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD Samples his previously unpublished correspondence with his wife, Marguerite Souli é
RT HON REGINALD MAUDLlNG , MP, tastes The Enjoyment vj Wine by H. W. Yoxall and Kingsley Amis on Drink also Pressures on the Press by Charles Wintour , Censorship in Britain by Paul O'Higgins Producer MIRIAM RAPP
Tonight: Christopher Serpell
Douglas Stuart reporting
Tyler's Row by miss READ Read by HUGH DICKSON (6)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
