6.27 Farming Week
Presented from the South West by DAVID BUTLER
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
6.5t Travel news. What's on, and Keep Fit with Eileen Fooler 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 including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35* Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations
by DEREK TANGYE : abridged In five parts by MARVIN KANE
Read by Manning Wilson
When the Tangyes' cat Monty died, Derek vowed he would never have another - unless a black cat whose home they could not trace were to come to the door of the cottage in a storm. He thought he was quite safe, but the unexpected can sometimes happen ... 1: Out of the Storm
Producer MARGARET ETALL
Lance Percival , Linda Blandford Fritz Spiegl , Zena Skinner 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 pi; Brightest and best (BBC HB 63); Psalm 3; John 3. vv 22-34, and 4, vv 1-3 (AV); Three Kings from Persian lands afar (obc 193)
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by IAIN SUTHERLAND including music by Elgar, Waidteufel and Peter Hope
Songs from OWEN BRANNIGAN including ' Danny Deever ' and 1 On the Road to Mandalay' with WILFRID PARRY (piano) Producer ALAN OWEN
A conversation piece by MALCOLM QUANTRILL
A man and a girl meet In a public house in the West End of London. with Richard Briers as the man and Julia Foster as the girl Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
(Julia Foster is in ' The Day After the Fair ' at the Lyric Theatre, London)
Joan Yorke presents this edition of the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Work and Money
Your Nest-Egg: in what baskets to put it - how many and for how long? Can you still make it grow despite inflation? Investment expert CLIFFORD STEVENSON gives some advice.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Robert William *
Story: The Story of the Old Balloon Woman by WILLIAM CLEGG
BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON and MARGARET WILLIAMS (soprano) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN Producer BARRY KNIGHT
Ralph Richardson Festivali Noah by ANDRÉ OBEY
Tono-Bungay
The novel by H. G. WELLS abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Robert Powell
A young man begins a dizzying climb to fame and a fortune based on the greatest patent medicine the world has known - Tono-Bungay.
1: The Housekeeper's Son at Bladesover
Producer TONY CLIFF (from Leeds)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening: presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team
5.50* Stock Market report
VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
with Life of a Salesman written by ALLAN PRIOR adapted by PAT DUNLOP and Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland
'twixt Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and Richard Murdoch , David Nixon Tune-twisters from Steve Race In the chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Radio Times People: page 4)
The Deeps of Summer by KEVIN FALLER
'It's not like writing a novel. There you tell a story, or you try to present a number of perspectives which seem to add up to something. When that's done. the novel is done. But a philosophy! When you have it all down on paper, and you go over it cautiously, step-by-step, it may suddenly give way from under you - and down you drop into the abyss! '
Producer GUY VAESEN
Walking Through Leaves
Talk by V. Sackville-West
(BBC Archive recording: 1950)
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
What's the attraction - and what are the risks? 1: See You at Bingo says Jane Alexander
The first of four personal impressions of different forms of gambling in Britain today. Producer HUGH PURCELL
The Slaves of Solitude by PATRICK HAMILTON
Read by CYRIL SHAPS (6)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
