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
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
9.5 Religious Service for Primary Schools
9.25 Material for Assembly
From the beyond - a science fiction story asks ' Who can replace a man? ': adapted by CHRISTOPHER PRICE
9.35 You and Survival 6: Give me air written by LEWIS JONES presented by PETER PACEY
9.55 Movement and Music I
NEM p 54: Jesu, lover of my soul <BBC HB 145); Psalm 36; John 13, vv 1-11 (AV); Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer <BBC HB 140)
10.30 La France Aujourd'hut
French IV. 16: Contrastes I (radiovision) written by PAULE-ALINE DENT
10.45 Horizons de France
French V. 16: Les chemins de fer francais. Compiled by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE
11.0 Time and Tune
16: Producer DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Man
6: Thoughts and words by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrator BARRY FOSTER
11.40 Geography
New Industry in the North-East (ii) by NORMAN BROWN
Presenter John Edmunds Health and Welfare
It's Hatching Time: not only for birds but also for household insect pests. JANE FINNIS finds out about destroying the pests.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
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: Missus Cluckabtddy Writes a Song by STEPHEN WEAVER
2.0 Living Language
Things as They Are: poems by Norman Nicholson ", Richard Church , Edward Thomas. Andrew Young, Robert Frost and Kenneth Rexroth arranged by CONNIE ROSEN
2.20 Movement and Music II
2.40 Learning about Life 6: Marriage
Programme arranged and introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
The Probationary Year by PETER SILCOCK
The life and times of a broadcaster-about- town
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Bright Day by J. B. PRIESTLEY Read by WILFRED PICKLES 4: Day Four
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 news
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
(Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
His cockroach whiskers leer
And his boot tops gleam.
Around him a rabble of thin-necked leaders -
Fawning half-men for him to play with
The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam wrote these lines about Stalin. Not surprisingly, he was arrested for it. Between his arrest and his eventual death in a labour camp he and his wife Nadezhda spent a twilight life in Russia as outcasts of the Soviet regime.
She preserved her husband's life and talent as long as it was humanly possible to do so. More, she preserved his poetry and, indeed, herself; for she still lives in Moscow, and it is her story that is told tonight.
with Betty Hardy as Nadezhda Mandelstam
Presented by John Julius Norwich
The Misanthrope: a new production in Moliere's tercentenary year by John Dexter for the National Theatre. KEITH GORE comments on the production which stars .Diana Rigg and Alec McCowen.
Sounder and Superfly: two films concerned with different aspects of black America, discussed by LOU KUSHNIK.
People: Robert Cohan's second full-length work for the London Contemporary Dance Theatre is premiered for the Camden Festival and will tour the country later in the year. Producer MIRIAM RAPP
Discoveries, inventions and news from the world of science and technology. Each week New Worlds brings you the people whose achievements are changing your way of life. Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer LAURIE JOHN
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
George by EMLYN WILLIAMS Read by RICHARD BEBB (14)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
Radio 4 stays open late to bring you the results of today's crucial by-elections in Dundee East and Lincoln, and the latest news from Chester-le-Street where the votes are counted tomorrow.
What is the verdict on the Conservative and Labour parties? Will the Liberal revival continue? Who will win the intriguing contest at Lincoln? Studio analysis by ROBERT CARVEL and ANTHONY KING.
Chairman Hardiman Scott. the BBC's Political Editor
(Inshore forecast 11.45*-11.48*)
