6.27 Farming Today: ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
6.50
Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER
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
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35* Today's Papers
9.30 Religious Service for
Primary Schools. ' Cormorant by R. E. T. LAMB : part 1
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
Gyles Brandreth with a personal view of The Isle of Thanet.
NEM p 64; All as God wills (BBC HB 1); Psalm 119, part 1; Romans 1, vv 13-25 (Rsv); Glorious things of thee are spoken (BBC HB 176)
10.30 History in Focus The Idea of Empire
3: The Spread of Civilisation written by MICHAEL SMEE
A weekly series of Interesting and unusual nuggets from the BBC Sound Archives. I Served a Maharajah
This week Sir Conrad Corfield speaks of the two years he spent in the service of a Maharajah and of the unique problems and diversions in His Highness's state.
11.0 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club presented by GARY TAYLOR
11.40 Religion and Life
MICHAEL SHARPE visits St Albans in search of Britain's religious culture. (VI Form series)
Presenter Joan Yorke
Home and Family. Pathway to Grief: ROSEMARY SIMON investigates road safety for children.
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Under the Weather
MILDRED: Something puzzles me, sir. It's officially a drought, but we've had lots of rain.
LENNOX-BROWN: Never mind the rain. Mildred. If the Met Office computer says it's a drought, then a drought it is. with NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY , JOHN GRAHAM Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Thursday. 6.15 pm)
12.55 medium trace only
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
Story: Granny's Baking Day by JEAN YOUNG
2.0 World History
Elizabeth Blackwell : the first woman doctor written by MARGARET J. MILLER
I couldn'do any work, so the justification for going and living alone had been taken away. All you were going to bring out was just a man alive ifyoumanagedtodothat,and it simply didn'seem worth it In conversation with ANNE SHARPLEY and BRIAN GROOM -BRIDGE, Duncan Carse tells of his ordeal alone in Antarctica when a well-planned expedition met unexpected hazards. (BBC Sound Archive recording) (Repeated: Thursday, 9.35 am)
2.40 Stories and Rhymes
Silver and Gold: a poetry programme compiled and produced by PADDY BECHELY
The novel by HENRY JAMES adapted in five parts by DONALD MCWHINNIE and FRANK HAUSER Part 5
Pianist WINIFRED DAVEY Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Gary Bond is in ' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ' at the Albery Theatre, London)
visits Staffordshire
The Grapes of Wrath by JOHN STEINBECK
Read by BLAIN FAIRMAN
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
with Kenneth Williams in Jungle Drums
(Details as Thurs, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Wed. 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
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Ring Robin Day to put your question on the buildings we live and work in today to architect Richard Seifert. whose high-rise blocks are changing the skylines of our cities.
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward until the end of the programme
Producer WALTER WALLICH
The style and atmosphere of life in Britain 70-odd years ago recaptured through the words and music of the Victorians at the turn of the century.
Those who fundamentally change the world are seldom recognised early in the course upon which they are set. But in 1900 a remarkable number had already begun: Marconi, the Wright brothers, Morris, Austin, Keir Hardie, Vladimir llyich Ulyanov (Lenin).
Introduced by Michael Flanders
Research by Leslie Baily
Compiled, written and produced by John Bridges
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
The Go-Between by L. P. HARTLEY Read by NIGEL STOCK (2)
A nightly review of the arts and science
People, ideas. events - opinion and discussion. Introduced tonight by Peter France
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends