6.27 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day PAUL BARBER
The world this morning introduced by Mary Marquis 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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
Regional VHF: see Variation*
9.5 Frisch Begonnen ... German for Beginners
20: Das Fernsehinterview written by STEPHEN KANOCZ
(a radiovision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio)
9.30 Foreign Correspondent
9.45 Music Workshop: Stage I Aesop: play by WILLIAM MURPHY , with music arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS with JOHN BADDELEY as Aesop Producer DAVID LYTTLE
NEM p 37; The race that long in darkness pined (BBC HB 496); Psalm 84; John 20, vv 19-29 (AV); The wise may bring their learning (BBC HB 370)
10.30 Voix de France. French VI. 20: Les transports en
France. Compiled by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY. Dawn
11.0 Quest. A place for joy by JAMES DODDING
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
11.20 Listening and Writing
All Kinds of Life: writing by listeners, compiled by DAVID KERRISON
11.40 Prospect. Current Affairs
Presented by Nigel Murphy You and the Law
Whose Welfare? LAURIE SAPPER concludes his series about the Welfare State benefits to which you may be entitled. Today he considers benefits for widows. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
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
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: The Special Offer Petit by DOROTHY EDWARDS
2.6 Let's Join In
The Bells that lost their chime by IRENE PEARL
2.20 Christian Focus
The Future? by PADDY FEENT Producer GEOFFREY CURTIS
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School
30: edited and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
Selected /or Friday Two Tudor Stories
2: A Knot of Secret Might
The ill-fated love story of Lady Katherine Grey , sister of the even more ill-fated Lady Jane Grey.
Compiled from contemporary sources by ALISON PLOWDEN
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
The Bird of Dawning by JOHN MASEFIELD
Read by DAVID MAHLOWE 5: The Race Is On!
Th2 news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
7: North of England (i)
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Producer PETER GOODWIN
(Repeated: Saturday, 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Hill
Sir Edwin Leather
Shirley Williams , mp John Cole
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Bletchley, Bucks
(Repeated: Saturday. 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers?, should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
The Contingencies of Life Presented by Colin Jones
Who should provide the remedies for life's mishaps? Insurance companies do it - at a price; the courts do it-when they can fix the blame. But should the Government step in and shift the frontier between state and commerical insurance? Speakers include:
HUGHCOCKERELL, SIR BENRY MANCE PROFESSOR GEOFFREY PALMER PROFESSOR HARRY STREET Producer ROLAND CHALLIS
(Analysis will be back on Thursday, 3 May, at 8.45 pm)
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A foreign journalist based In London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week.
The Most Dangerous Game by GAVIN LYALL abridged by DONALD BANCROFT Read by ERIC LANDER (12)
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by PETER SPENCE and CHRIS MILLER
Producers SIMON BRETT and JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(David Jason is in ' No Sex Please ... We're British ' at the Strand Theatre, London)
preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends