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 CARDINAL HEENAN
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
Salt water, fresh water
Kenneth Robinson
Kenny Everett , Vivian Stanshall RON GEESIN and ANNE NIGHTINGALE in a new series of this midweek medley of music, humour and comment.
Producer RICHARD GILBERT
NEM p 50; All people that on earth do dwell (BBC HB 450): Canticle 2; Isaiah 54, vv 11-17 (rsv): I bind unto myself today (BBC HB 170)
BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by TERENCE LOVETT including music by Tchaikovsky and Peter Hope
CYRIL SMITH and PHYLLIS SELLICK at two pianos play ' La Valse ' by Ravel
JOHN DUNN introduces
A Wizard of Earthsea Read by PETER FRANCE
3: The Loosing oj the Shadow
Presenter Nancy Wise Consumer Style
Snap - bang - rustle! LUCILLE HALL investigates the cost, value and safety of Christmas crackers and the things in them.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations
from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Crusade: written and adapted by ELAINE MORGAN
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Dr Finlay's cure for ailing actors: page 23)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William HardcasUe
Story: Mr Pig Goes to Market by CLARE HAMBROOK
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by MICHAEL MOORES and HAROLD BLACKBURN (bass-baritone)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by STUART FORSYTH
(Harold Blackburn broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera)
Wilfred Pickles as Abel Bennett in Save a Slice of Ham for Me by IVOR WILSON
' By gaw that ham smells good but I'll not get more than a sniff of it ... it's for my funeral.'
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (from Leeds)
Dame Svbil Thorndike plays some of her favourite records and explains why they give her particular pleasure (Dame Sybil on acting on the arena stage: Friday, 3.50 pm)
The Worst Journey in the World by APSI.EY CHERRY-GARRARD Read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS 8: Suspense
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send are discussed this week by: Renée Houston
Renee Short, mp
Charmian Innes , Debbie Bowen In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited The Abercarn district of Monmouthshire
Producer PHYLLIS Robinson
Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire
by Peter Fieldson
with Nigel Anthony as Barnie and Gerald Cross as the narrator
Barnie doesn't want to fight in Vietnam; come to that, he doesn't even want to go there for a holiday. He doesn't want to be Mayor of New York, and he certainly doesn't want the gift that the fat woman of indeterminate origin has to offer.
with Ronald Harwood
' Living in the country is so fraught. Nature springs surprises like the prize-fighter's jab you didn'see coming. Anxieties bloom like antirrhinums; despair under the elms; neuroses round the door.'
KENNETH ALLSOP talks about his collection of articles In the Country and other books with a rural theme
RONALD BRYDEN reviews books about the cinema and The Pleasure Dome by Graham Greene
BEVIS HILLIER discusses the art of Gustave Doré illustrated in two recent publications Producer ROSEMARY HART
A well-known professional broadcaster talks about something in the recent news which has caught his attention.
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Travels with my Aunt by GRAHAM GREENE
Read by TIMOTHY WEST (8)
preceded by Weather
