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
A short story by SYLVIA LEWIN Read by David Geary
On the first day of spring, the first person the Devil meets is completely in his power until sundown, so they say. And it was on the first day of spring that Mr Foster met the strange gentleman with the even stranger smile ... Producer JOHN CARDY
9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
Barbara Mullen with a personal view of the Aran Islands.
NEM p 19: Christ be with me (BBC HB 136); Psalm 1: Romans 13, vv 1, 7-14 (RSV): The Lord ascendeth (BBC HB 133)
10.30 History in Focus
The New Nations. 1: Nation and Religion - Pakistan written by JOHN MERSON
from the BBC Sound Archives Life at No 10 Downing Street
This week Lady Violet Bonham Carter summons up memories of the crowded days and tense excitement of life in the official residence of the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
11.0 Movement and Music 1
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club presented by GARY TAYLOR
North: the first of four programmes in which he loses himself in the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON
Presenter Jeanine McMullen
Home and Family. The Years Ahead: DES FAHY finds out about planning for retirement.
by P.G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster; Jonathan Cecil as Bingo Little, Ann Davies as Mabel and Mary, and this week's guest Ronald Fraser as Mortimer Little.
Adapted by Chris Miller from the book "The Inimitable Jeeves"
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
Mutual admiration: page 4
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clougb
Story: The Baboon and the Drum by AVERIL COULT
2.0 World History. Louis Pasteur written by EMILE HARVEN
Translated by DUNCAN TAYLOR
They strip themselves naked and put their flimsy little toincloths over them and lie there under the brilliant stars with the wind sighing round them and they get so cold that they can't get up in the morning until the sun has risen and warmed them.
Wilfred Thesiger tells LAURENS VAN DER POST of the rigours and rewards of years spent travelling in that harsh desert region known as the Empty Quarter of Arabia.
(BBC Sound Archive recording) (Repeated: Thursday. 9.35 am)
2.40 Stories and Rhymes Borrobil by WILLIAM CROFT DICKINSON: part 1
Music by PAMELA KENWAY
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE adapted for radio in 20 parts from six of his novels
Book 2: Barchester Towers
Episode 3: Mrs Proudie Moves In dramatised by CONSTANCE COX
Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
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MICHAEL BARRATT invites
FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post Producer KENNETH FORD
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Questions, on postcards, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX
Golden Soak
The novel by HAMMOND INNES Read by DENIS LILL
7: Drilling and a Claim
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough and PM's reporting team
5.50 medium irate only Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
Those Tingles Down My Spine
Witchcraft stalks the village of Screaming Hag and Skull Cottage is at the centre of the trouble - of course!
(Details as Thurs, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestiand presenting world news and views
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Ring Robin Day to put your question on careers, how to choose them and how to train for them, to Catherine Avent , Careers Guidance Inspector with the Inner London Education Authority.
[number removed](16 lines) will take questions from 6.0 pm onward until the end of the programme Producer WALTER WALLICH
with Tom Fleming as Dougal Robertson
In June 1972 killer whales in the Pacific Ocean attacked the 19-ton 43-ft schooner Lucette, sailed by a Scottish ex-farmer and his family, and sank it in 60 seconds.
The Robertsons managed to scramble into their inflatable rubber raft and that, plus a 15ft fibreglass dinghy and a few odds and ends, was the only thing left afloat. So began one of the most astounding survival stories ever recorded.
Dougal Robertson and his crew of five: wife, 18-year-old son, 12-year-old twin boys and a student friend decided to try for the coast of Costa Rica, 1,000 miles away. They had emergency rations of food and water for only three days. This is the story of their momentous voyage.
Adapted from the book Survive the Savage Sea
Script by MARY-JEAN HASLER with OLIVE GREGG, SANDRA CLARK ANDREW RIVERS, EILIAN WYN Producer ALAN BURGESS
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
The Ballad of the Belstone F*x by DAVID ROOK
Read by PAUL ROGERS (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
