6.27 Farming Week: presented from Aberdeen by ROSS MUIR
6.45 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, 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 7.35' Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day All this week: KAY BAXTER
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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
Regional VHF: see last column
Steve Race finds some of today's events reflected in yesterday's recordings in the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Tuesday, 11.45 am)
Aided by Linda Blandford , Harriet Crawley , Lance Perci val, Kenneth Robinson. Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets surprise guests for whom this week promises to be special.
Producers LYN MACDONALD and RITCHIE COGAN
How does a blackbird sing with his beak full of food? Why are poisonous spiders not poisoned themselves when they eat their victimst Why does a dog's hair stand up in a ridge on its back when it barks?
Todav the panel of experts will be trying to solve these problems and many others posed by you.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
Questions (on a postcard) to Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM p 58: God of love and truth and beauty (BBC HB 273); Psalm 146; Acts 17. vv 1-15 (NEB): Ye holy angels bright (BBC hb 286)
Rootiey and the Maserati Written and read by Roger Snowdon
' It was not that he was trying to be modest, but he did feel that the car was the irresistible factor ...
Elgar Country: he wanders round the places where Elgar lived, worked, and died, and hears again the sound of Elgar's music and the voices of his friends.
Producer HELEN FRY
Presenter Nigel Murphy Work and Money
Don'Buy Insurance from a Friend: he may only have one person's interests at heart! MOLLY PRICE-OWEN and JOHN TURTLE investigate.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Show more
Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer, with Roy Plomley
12.55Ã 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
2.0-2.2 News
MAY HOBBS, who led the Cleaners Action Group strike. talks about her book Born to Struggle.
Reading your letters.
MARGARET KORVING looks at training schemes for women starting a new career, and visits a special course on careers guidance.
MONICA GREY reads
In a Summer Season by ELIZABETH TAYLOR
(Ninth of 12 instalments)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Cleaners' champion: page 5
Story: Mary Takes Spijfles to the Launderette by MARY WHITE
The Minister: the novel by MAURICE EDELMAN , MP
Little Big Man: the novel by THOMAS BERGER
Read by BOB SHERMAN 6: Morning Star
The news magazine: presented by Michael Cooke with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 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)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Derek Nimmo discusses with DEREK JONES his interest in wildlife both at home and abroad, and chooses some wildlife recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)
A Yard of Sun
A Summer Comedy by CHRISTOPHER FRY
I could stay and talk all night, About what we are, to ourselves and to each other,
What things destroy us and what things create -
They are better guides than any rule-book,
Though as intricate as a meeting of waters.
This is the second of Fry's 'seasonal' plays ihis Spring play. The Lady's Not for Burning, was broadcast at Easter). A Yard of Sun is set in a court-yard in Italy just after the end of the 1939-45 war.
Other parts WILLIAM SLEIGH
DAVID TIMSON , DAVID GOODERSON Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Two Lamps in Our Street by ARTHUR BARTON abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Ronald Herdman
' We played round the lamp just outside our door. No one ever played around the other one but we couldn'have given you any reason why not.'
The pains and pleasures of growing up in Jarrow between the wars.
Producer TONY CLIFF (from Leeds)
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 Leslie Finer
Producers this week
MICHAEL BRIGHT, ROSEMARY HART JOY HATWOOD, LOUISE PURSLOW
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends