6.27 Farming Today presented by ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning introduced by Robert Robinson and Mary Marquis
6.5t 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
Estuary Nature Trail
Britain's estuaries are threatened by mammoth development for reclamation, industrialisation and water storage.
Over 600 birdwatchers throughout the country are regularly counting the birds using their local estuaries, so that the effects on birds of possible changes can be assessed before planning decisions are taken. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
(from Bristol: shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History In Evidence Medieval Britain
5: The Fourth Crusade written by HUGH WOODHOUSE
9.45 Listening and Reading II The Poltergoose by R. C. SCRIVEN
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS f.55 Radio Jeunesse. French II 5: A radio magazine including Le permis de conduire by PAULE-ALINE DENT
10.5 Poetry Corner
The Little Green House
NEM p 7; 0 God, give ear unto my cry (BBC HB 466): Psalm 8; John 9, vv 25-41 (av); 0 praise ye the Lord! (BBC HB 279)
10.30 Music Workshop II continues preparation for The Pennine Way, a musical impression with poetry by HAROLD MASSINGHAM and music composed by GERARD VICTORY.
11.0 Inquiry
5: European Viewpoint or How others see us a play by david CAMPTON Producer JOHN PARRY
11.20 Discovery Measurement
2: Have you high standards? by ARTHUR VIALLS
Presented by RICHARD BEBB
11.40 Art and Humanities Over Battersea
Script by a fourth form at Battersea County School Producer STUART EVANS
Presenter Joan Yorke Consumer Style
Is Your Architect Really Necessary? The pros and cons. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? (Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA)
VHF South West: see Variations
from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Unfit to Marry: written and adapted by HARRY green
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Sun and the Wind adapted from Aesop's fable
2.0 Mevement, Mime and Music 1 by JAMES nODDING
1.2* Books, Plays, Poems
The Scar by TOM GALLACHER
An original play commissioned specially for the series.
Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
2.45 Nature
The Trout: written and presented by BERNARD V ENABLES Producer DAVID LYTTLE (radiovision)
One of the Lost by JOYCE BROUGHTON GRIFFITHS
How many people last Christmas felt that perhaps we have lost the true meaning of the Christmas spirit? Gareth Wil son certainly did. But what could he do about it?
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
A seasonal look at early lambing in Lincolnshire and at winter wildlife on the Ouse Washes: hill farming in Wales, and the work of the Forestry Commission in Scotland, with NEVILLE POWLEY. ERIC SIMMS
JEREMY SORENSEN. PATRICK DOBBS
BOB DANVERS-WALKER
Introduced by c. GORDON GLOVER Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
(Shortened version of the broadcast on 19 January)
Cimarron by EDNA FERBER Read by JUNE BARRIE (8)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcaslle and PM's reporting team
5.50 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, Charmian Innes, Bettine Le Beau, Peggy Cochrane.
In the chair Anona Winn
(Repeated: Friday. 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Brian JOHNSTON recently visited Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
Little Brother Claude
The novel by DAVID EMERSON dramatised for radio by BARRY CAMPBELL with Sian Davies and David Valla
ENID: You're not a complete fool, you're reasonably good-looking, and there ie no doubt you have a flair for music. But you just drift along. Claude, do you really feel that you'd like to work for your brother?
Claude: It's worth trying. I can'find anything else and Hector and I always got on well together....
Producer DAVID b. GODFREY
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
with Ronald Harwood
Micawber, Mrs Wilkins sen. (Emma): "I have known her to be thrown into fainting fits by the king's taxes at 3 o'clock and to eat lamb chops, breaded, and drink warm ale (paid for with two teaspoons that had gone to the pawnbrokers) at four" (Copperfield).
The Charles Dickens Encyclopedia, compiled by Michael and Mollie Hardwick: characters, plots and personalities from the real and fictional worlds of Charles Dickens.
Europe - the radical challenge by Hugh Thomas: a historian looks at the promise held out by entry into Europe.
Not in God's Image, edited by Julia O'Faolain and Lauro Martines: the lives of women at every level of society throughout European history; and other new books
A well-known professional broadcaster talks about something in the recent news which has caught his attention.
Douglas Stuart reporting
George by EMLYN WILLIAMS Read by RICHARD BEBB (3)
preceded by Weather
