6.27 Farming Today presented by ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning introduced bv 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
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
Calls of Winter
From the high Arctic and frozen lands to the north our winter visitors can be seen in field, forest, and at the bird table, DRUCE CAMPBELL and CHRIS MEAD play recordings of their calls and help us to identify the birds who come with the cold. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer PETER FRANCE
Series producer DILYS BREESE
9.30 History in Evidence
Medieval Britain. 3: Tournament written by ELIZABETH LUCKOCK and ALAN EREIRA
9.45 Listening and Reading II
Stig of the Dump by CLIVE KING read by GARARD GREEN - 2
9.55 Radio Jeunesse. French II 3: A radio magazine including Nous allons prendre un verre by PAULE-ALINE DENT
10.5 Poetry Corner Silence in the Pit
NEM p 47; Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost (BBC HB 153); Psalm 48: John 7, vv 1-13 (AV); Eternal Ruler (BBC HB 321)
10.30 Music Workshop II continues preparation for The Pennine Way, a musical impression with poetry by HAROLD MASSINGRAM and music composed by GERARD VICTORY.
11.0 Inquiry
3: Switching Off - a comic look at the problems of communicating, by DEREK FARMER, with music by MAX BRITTAIN. Producer JOHN PARRY
11.20 Discovery. Communication 3: Man to Man by ARTHUR VIALLS Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Art and Humanities
Click 3: DONALD MCCULLIN talks With VICKY ZENTNER , BERNARD GOLDMAN and PAUL LOWNDES about their photographs
Presenter Derek Cooper Consumer Style
Value for Money - Hardware: JANICE DICKERSON investigates.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations
12.55 Weather. programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Country Pigby HILDA CARSON
2.0 Movement. Mime and Music I by JAMES DODDING
Producer VERA GRAY
2.20 Books, Plays. Poems
The Player's Progress by GINNIE HOLE: a chronicle of the actor's triumphs and tribulations over the years (part 3) Music arranged by VERA GRAY
2.45 Nature. Frogs by LESLEY GOULD , with ALFRED LEUTSCHER and GARARD GREEN Producer PETER WARD
by Dominic Le Poer Power
with James McManus, John Hollis, Leslie Dwyer and Yootha Joyce
"Good evening sir or madam. I represent the Nehemiah Bultitude Biblical Institute, and I am here to bring you the good news about the Nehemiah Illustrated Bible."
Producer GERRY JONES
An impression of a year in Ulster in the words and music of Harry Barton and James Simmons
This programme was broadcast on R4 N Ireland and in the BBC's World Service in December 1972.
I found the programme very moving ... it should have some impact in bringing the people towards a feeling of the terrible effects of violence, wrote a listener from Londonderry, and from Kenya: This method of telling the story of the last few years in Ulster was to me far more convincing than all the statistics of the more usual reports
Producer VIRGINIA HARDY followed by an interlude
A Little Love, a Little Learning by NINA BAWDFEN
Read by EVA HADDON (3)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.56 Stock Market report
VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send are discussed this week by Renee Houston , Marjorie Proops Anthea Askey. Diana Cooper In the chair Anona Winn Devised hy 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
FYFE ROBERTSON recently visited Burton Latimer. Northants
Death of a Huntsman by H. E. BATES : adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS
Every weekday evening, watches ready, black umbrellas neatly rolled, the City gentle. men, fellow-travellers of Harry Barnfield, waited for him to catch the 5.10 train.... Then one day he missed it.
Producer GERRY-JONES
with Christopher Ricks Jo Grimond, MP, on CB: a life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman by John Wilson - the first biography for 50 years.
Angela Carter on The Social Novel in England 1830-1850 by Louis Cazamian, a provocative account by a French scholar of the great Victorian novels of protest.
John Taylor on the latest sci-fi thriller by Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle, The Inferno.
Anthony Payne on Varese, a diary by the composer's wife which ranges over the musical life of Paris and New York at the turn of the century.
Also: a new series Eye on Society which starts off by looking at addicts, prisoners and misfits of various sorts.
Christopher Serpell
Douglas Stuart reporting
This Rough Magic
Read by PATRICIA GALLIMORE (8)
preceded by Weather