6.27 Farming Today presented by ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
John Timpson and Douglas Cameron introduce what
Europe's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere else on earth
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
7.50 Europe Information Desk and travel news
VHF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today from Amsterdam and London including at 8.25 Sportsdesk, With CRAWFORD WHITE on the Second Test at Calcutta; at
8.35* Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations
Read by KERRY FRANCIS (8)
Another chance to hear this edited anthology from public readings at the Poetry Centre YMHA, New York.
The poems include:
Robert Graves: Welsh Incident
Anon: Polly Perkins
Edward Thomas: Old Man; The Owl
William Plomer: The Flying Bum
W.B. Yeats: Lapis Lazuli
Henry Reed: Naming of Parts
Edith Sitwell: Still Falls the Rain
(BBC Sound Archive recording)
NEM p 102; 0 little one sweet (obc 109); Psalm 40; 'John 2, vv 12-22 (AV); 0 what their joy (BBC HB 252)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE with MOURA LYMPANY (piano)
STEVE RACE introduces performances of the third and fourth prize-winning pieces in the recent competition held by the Light Music Society for new British music. The first and second prize-winning pieces can be heard next Thursday.
by GAIL CURTIS
Gerda's marriage becomes more important to her than the freedom she thought she had lost ...
Producer BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)
Presenter Nigel Murphy Health and Welfare
There will be deep depressions ...: TIM RICHARDS looks into the problem of depressive illness, and what can be done for it.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations
David Franklin and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the chair Steve Race t
12.55Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Little Grey Goose by ANNE-MARIE EDWARDS
RADIO BIG BAND leader NIGEL CARTER conducted by MALCOLM LOCKYER with JANIE MARDEN and the GORDON LANGFORD TRIO
Introduced by BRIAN EMPRINGRAM
by Martin Jarvis
with Robin Ellis and Julian Holloway
Two former schoolfriends meet in a hotel bar in Munich. Their relationship is an uneasy one. Why?
A mixture of the skittish, the sceptical and the scurrilous, but never, we hope, the snobbish, the self-righteous or the soporific
Producer MICHELL RAPER
The Surgeon's Log by J. JOHNSTON ABRAHAM
Read by MANNING WILSON 4: Japan and Java Bound
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50* Stock Market report
VHF Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme newt
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated.: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Michael Redgrave in a radio feature by JAMES CAMERON
In 1971 the journalist James Cameron suffered a heart-attack while in East Bengal. In this play he has re-created his experience in fictional form.
Producer R. D. SMITH
Aunt Edna is still going to see those plays she thinks she will like and still staying away in droves from a lot of other plays that the critics tell her she ought to like but which, somehow, she knows she won't
(Terence Rattigan 1963)
DEREK MALCOLM introduces this first edition of 1973 with the question: whatever did happen to Aunt Edna? and discusses With TERENCE RATTIGAN the latest revival of his 1942 comedy While the Sun Shines
DAVID THOMPSON looks at the exhibition The Impressionists in London at the Hayward Gallery - one of the events organised as part of the Fanfare Jor Europe Festival.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Join PAUL VAUGHAN in his weekly exploration of what is new in the world of science and technology.
New Worlds brings you up-to-date reports about advances, inventions and discoveries and talks to the people who make them.
Producer MICHAEL TOTTON
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
The virtues and problems of being in the same profession. 4: The Industrialists
Edward Brooke. chairman of a Yorkshire textile manufacturers founded in the 16th century, in conversation with his son Massimo Brooke , a director of the firm.
The Slaves of Solitude by PATRICK HAMILTON
Read by CYRIL SHAPS (4)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends