6.27 Farming Today: 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
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
Regional VHF: see last column
9.30 Religious Service for
Primary Schools. ' Cormorant by R. E. T. LAMBE : part 2 Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
Robert Aickman with a personal view of Inland Waterways.
NEM p 87; When all thy mercies (BBC HB 22); Psalm 147, vv 12-20, and Romans 6, vv 1-14 (RSV); 0 thou who earnest from above (BBC HB 362)
10.30 History in Focus The Idea of Empire
4: Manifest Destiny of the USA written by JOHN MERSON
A weekly series of interesting and unusual nuggets from the BBC Sound Archives.
Travelling Players Remembered This week Leonard Clark talks about the revels of the travelling players who, along with pig-killing and apple-picking, marked the arrival of autumn in the Forest of Dean.
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
Religion in Britain Today: LESLIE SMITH With EDWARD PATEY , KENNETH BARNES and other studio guests. (VI Form series)
Presenter Nancy Wise Home and Family
Greener Grass? FRANCES BERRIGAN looks into the prospects for immigrants to Australia today.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Monkey Business
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Pussy Simkin Meets a Peacock Bird by LINDA GREENBURY
2.0 World History
Sister Dora: the story of a nurse, written by JO MANTON
The face was terrifying, it was dreadful and you had the feeling that man shouldn'be on it: stones were coming down continuously ; it was like being under an artillery bombardment as we crossed the second icefield which is probably the most dangerous spot
Chris Bonington , the first Briton up the North Face of the Eiger, compares notes with Ian McNaught Davis , a member of the Anglo-Soviet expedition to the Pamirs which successfully scaled Peak Communism.
(BBC Sound Archive recording) (Repeated: Thursday, 9.35 am)
2.40 Stories and Rhymes The Iron Knife written by MOLLIE HUNTER
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE : adapted for radio in 20 parts from six of his novels.
Book 1: The Warden
Episode 1: Barchester, 1855 dramatised by CONSTANCE COX
Cello ANTHONY PLEETH Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
Dressing for the part: page 4
visits Cambridgeshire
Gardening enthusiasts from the Ely district put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
Ring of Bright Water by GAVIN MAXWELL
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF
2: Travels with an Otter
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
Treachery in High Places
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
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Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to his guest of the evening.
With an eye on topical interest the invitation is being left as near as possible to the date of the broadcast.
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 Jines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward until the end of the programme
Producer WALTER WALLICH
What's wrong - or right with the British pub today and what is happening to it? A return to Victorian dark seclusion or Continental bright little tables with umbrellas? And what's happening to mine host? Is he still the jovial innkeeper or will he become a manager following a brewer's marketing plan? What happens, too, at the local - closure or conversion to a discotheque with drinks? René Cutforth investigates. Producer JOHN TURTLE
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Go-Between by L. P. HARTLEY Read by NIGEL STOCK (7)
A nightly review of the arts and science
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. Introduced tonight by Ronald Harwood
preceded by Weather
