6.27 Farming Week: presented from Leeds by KENNETH FORD
6.45 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
Introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
6.50 medium wave onlu
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 7.35* Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
All week: REV CARYL MICKLEM
7.50 medium wave onlu 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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
Regional VHF: see last column
(Details as Tuesday, 11.45 am)
aided bv Linda Blandford , Harriet Crawley. Lance Perci val, Kenneth Robinson. Fritz Spiegl. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
This is a programme made by listeners who are interested m wildlife -the sounds you ask to hear, subjects you want to know more about, your own observations of wildlife.
This month's requests include: the song of the brainfever bird and why it's so called; advice on the best binoculars to buy; more about animals using tools: and the remarkable story of a tame crow.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
NEM p 15: A great and mighty wonder (BBC HB 41); Psalm 33, vv 13-21: Acts 2, vv 19-30 (NEB); Praise to the Holiest (BBC BB 88)
Mrs Twiller Takes a Trip by LAEL J. LITTKE
Read by Patricia Hayes
! With a shopping bag illegally containing a watch, a transistor radio and an electric shaver, she took the escalator down ... but why was it going down for so long? '
(Patricia Hayes is in ' Habeas Corpus ' at the Lyric Theatre, London)
Covent Garden and wanders around the Royal Opera House. He recalls the times when he sang on that vast stage and conjures up the music and the voices which fill his memories of those years.
Producer HELEN FRY
Presenter George Luce Work and Money
Part-time teacher training: SUSAN CARR explores a new career possibility.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is impresario Wilfrid Van Wyck. Show more
Wilfrid Van Wyck. retired impresario, with ROY PLOMLEY
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Michael Cooke
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.8-2.2 News
Making Ends Meet: a portrait of a pensioner.
Works Like a Charm: medical myths exposed.
Reading your Letters.
Poetry on a Theme: HONOR WYATT chooses poems about journeys.
ALAN BADEL reads
Clash of Generations by LAVENDER CASSELS (6)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLI Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Lost Whisker by ELIZABETH LINDSAY
The Ministry of Fear by GRAHAM GREENE
by William Makepeace Thackeray, abridged for radio in five parts by Alick Hayes
This is an adventure story set against a backdrop of the courts and wars of 18th-century Europe - a story told in the first person by the greatest villain in all literature, Barry himself (though Barry, of course, always sees himself as a hero).
1: First Love - and a First Duel
Readers Geoffrey Banks and Alick Hayes
Producer Herbert Smith (from Manchester)
The news magazine: presented by Michael Cooke with PM's reporting team Deputy Editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.56 medium wave only Stock Market report
5.65 Weather, programme news
The antidote to panel games from Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie under the supervision of Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and Dave Lee at the piano.
(Repeated: Wed, 12.27 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Roger Whittaker discusses with DEREK JONES his interest in wildlife and its conservation, and chooses some wildlife recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)
Nigel Patrick , Julia Foster and Rachel Gurney in The Gay Lord Quex
A comedy by A. w. PINERO adapted for radio by CYNTHIA PUGHE
(First produced at the Globe Theatre, London, on 8 April 1899)
The action takes place at a manicurist's in Bond Street, London, and at Fauncey Court, Richmond
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
(Andrew Sachs is in ' Habeas Corpus ' at the Lyric Theatre. London)
John Tusa reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Miss Marjoribanks by MRS Oliphant: abridged in 25 parts by ALISON PLOWDEN Read by NOEL JOHNSON (16)
A nightly review of the arts and science
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. What's new in theatre, books, cinema, painting, architecture, scientific advance ... Introduced tonight by Paul Vaughan
Producers this week
LOUISE PURSLOW , MICHAEL BRIGHT ROSEMARY HART , JOY HATWOOD
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