6.27 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day BEN DE LA MARE
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
6.50 Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fitwith EILEEN FOWLER VHF: Regional news; weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today, including at 7.25 Sportsdesk with a report from Karachi on the Third Test; 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
0 soft embalmer of the still midnight ...
(Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
9.30 History in Evidence Tudor Britain
5: Sir Francis Drake written by ALISON PLOWDEN
9.45 Listening and Reading II Robinson Crusoe by Defoe read by JOHN HOLLIS (2)
10: A radio magazine including Nous visitons la France - Caen (radiovision) by GEOFFPEY BRAITHWAITI
10.5 Poetry Corner Let's Hear It Again
NEM p 26; Lighten the darkness (BBC HB 520); Canticle 5; John 20, vv 1-9 (AV); Take up thy cross (BBC HB 369)
10.30 Music Workshop II The Pennine Way
A musical impression for radio by HAROLD MASSINGHAM and GERARD VICTORY
Producer WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Inquiry
Unit 4: Eating and Living
5: General Booth's Christmas Dinner. Script by ELAINE MOORE and DEREK FARMER . Interviews by PHILIP HOLLAND
11.20 Discovery
Bread 3: Grist to the mill by ARTHUR VIALLS
Presented by RICHARD BEBB Producer ARTHUR VIALLS
11.40 Art and Humanities Light in Action
Script by DAVID BELLAN
Presenter Joan Yorke Consumer Style
You Can'See the Join-or can you? AUDREY KAVE looks at the cost and efficiency of hair pieces.
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: Mrs Cluckabiddy and the Hot Corn Meal by STEPHEN WEAVER
2.0 Movement, Mime and Music by JAMES DODDING
2.20 Books. Plays, Poems Listeners' Own Plays
Series edited by STUART EVANS
2.45 Nature
Darwin and the Finches by CHRISTINE DUDLEY
No Machine Guns after Midnight by BILL LYONS with Peter Barkworth
Edward Revie wants to throw up his safe and well-paid job and devote himself to writing a novel. But he doesn'get much encouragement from anyone - least of all his son.
Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Peter Barkworth is in ' Crown Matrimonial' at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
A portrait for radio of Sir Gerald du Maurier name uapnne au Maurier remembers her father, the successful yet melancholic matinée idol - one of the greatest exponents of ' elegant naturalism' in British theatre and the last of the great actor-managers. with Angela and Jeanne du Maurier Sir Felix Aylmer , Celia Johnson Nicholas Llewelyn-Davies
Interviews by SHERIDAN MORLEY Producer JOHN KNIGHT (People: page 5)
The Bird of Dawning
Read by DAVID MARLOWE
3: Alarums and Excursions
William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Rente Houston, Marjorie Proops Teddy Beverley , Polly Elwes In the chair Anona Winn Devised by 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
Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire
Letter from a Lady by BERKELY MATHER with Dandy Nichols and Sean Barrett
Ma Tante has spent a lifetime in India, as soldier's wife, as RSM's widow. She buys and sells second-hand clothes and is patronised and despised by the officers' wives.
Now comes young Jeremy Pentreath from Government House, offering for sale a tweed suit and leaving, in one of the pockets, a highly compromising letter from a lady.
Producer JOHN CARDY
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
with John Julius Norwich
The pick of the new books including:
The Oxford Book of Twentieth - Century English Verse, chosen by Philip Larkin : reviewed by DAVID HOLBROOK
Alex by Nigel Nicolson : the life of Earl Alexander of Tunis, reviewed by SIR JOHN HACKETT. Prancing Novelist by Brigid Brophy - a study of Ronald Firbank
Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe : a comic novel set in South Africa: reviewed by NINA BAWDEN
Also, two volumes of stories about country life: Acky by George Ewart Evans , and Purl and Plain by David Garnett , reviewed by RONALD BLYTHE Producer KRISHAN KUMAR
(More about books in Kalcidoscope: next Mon 10.30 pm R4)
Four I.entcn talks introduced by THE REV MICHAEL MAYNE 2: Day by Day by FR MICHAEL HOLLINGS Of St Anselm's Roman Catholic Church, Southall, Middlesex
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Most Dangerous Game by GAVIN LYALL
Read by ERIC LANDER (10)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
11.3C Closedown
