t.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day REV WILF WILKINSON
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Michael Clayton
S.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
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
by Herman Wouk
Read by Peter Marinker
Having a Baby
Am I likely to get morning sickness during pregnancyr Do some husbands fear they will take second place to the babyt Can childbirth really be painlessf
Put your questions on pregnancy and childbirth to
Gordon Bourne , obstetrician and author of Pregnancy, and Margaret Brant , lecturer in health education.
Sue MacGregor in the chair Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
NEM p S3; Father of mercies (BBC HB 189); Psalm 119, part 6; Acts 19, vv 11-20 (NEB); Be thou my Vision (BBC HB 316)
The Judus Chop by EILEEN CAPEL Read by Ysanne Churchman
'Together they would stand there, the middle-aged man who had been in the shop when it had belonged to his father, and the old lady, who used to cook for the gentry ...'
Recalled by Ian Carmichael
A series of seven programmes with words and music from the hit shows that won the triple crown of acclaim in New York, London and on screen during the past 30 years.
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
Presenter Joan Yorke Home and Family
Women in Crime: FRANCES BERTHELSEN reports on who, what and why.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
by P.G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
Joan Sanderson as Aunt Agatha, David Jason as Eustace, Jonathan Lynn as Claude, Bridget Armstrong as Marion Wardour
Adapted by Chris Miller from the book "The Inimitable Jeeves"
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcaslle
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Are you a good citizen? GORDON SNELL quizzes HONOR WYATT, DEREK MMMO and ROSIE BOYCOTT.
2.0-2.2 News
On the Right Track? Lighthearted views of school sports days.
What's New for the Home: ALICE HOPE reports.
Consultation: a listener discusses menstrual difficulties With DR TREVOR WESTON KERRY FRANCIS reads
Sitting Duck by BRYCE FRASER (3)
Story: The Wicked Birds and the Wild Cherry Tree by DOROTHY EDWARDS
Presenters this week:
AURIOL SMITH and GARY TAYLOR Scripts by the producer JENYTH WORSLEY
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE adapted for radio in 20 parts from six of his novels
Book 4: Framley Parsonage Episode 11: Resolutions dramatised by CONSTANCE COX
Producer GERRY JONES Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
visits Somerset
Members of the Banwell Village Hall Foundation put questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer Kenneth FORD
Duel In the Snow by HANS MEISSNER
Read by GEOFFREY MATTHEWS (2)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
starring
Michael Robbins as Dad Pat Coombs as Mum Liz Gebhardt as Beryl Frank Abbott as Len and Ronald Fletcher as Himself
A weekly, fearless, down-to-earth report on Britain today, through the eyes of yer typical average listening family. 5: Showbiz an' that
Written by TONY BILBOW and MIKE FENTIMAN
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
A series of seven programmes 5: Rheumatic Diseases
Rheumatism is something we all get. It has been called the English disease: we believe it comes from cold and damp. But Tony Van den Bergh has been finding out from specialists something about the true causes of this painful and baffling illness.
He also talks with surgeons and physicians about some of the promising future developments in treatment with drugs and with the surgical replacement of diseased joints.
Compiled and narrated by TONY VAN DEN BERGH
Producer MICHAEL TOTTON
2: A Strange Marriage compiled by THEA HOLME from the book Munby, Man of Two Worlds by DEREK HUDSON with Mark Dignam as A. J. Munby and Susan Fleetwood as Hannah Cullwick
Narrated by MARTIN FRIEND and including the author DEREK HUDSON
With ELIZABETH MORGAN and VIRGINIA STRIDE
A secret diary kept by the Victorian eccentric A. J. Mun by, which has recently been found, describes his lifelong love for Hannah, a servant, whom he secretly married. Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX
(Mark Dignam and Susan Fleetwood are members of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Six verse programmes taking their titles from passages in T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets. 6: Bone of Man and Beast
Peter Orr introduces poems by JOHN ARDEN , BOB COBBING
STEVIE SMITH , ALAN BROWNJOHN LAWRENCE DURRELL , JON SILKIN and SYLVIA PLATH read by the authors themselves and HARVEY HALL
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Recordings of the poets themselves made by the British Council in association with the Poetry Room at Harvard. t.29 Weather
Nick Ross reporting
Two Lamps in Our Street by ARTHUR BARTON
Read by RONALD HERDMAN (7)
A nightly review of the art* and science
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. Introduced tonight by Peter France
The true-life account of five famous or infamous - frauds. Written by DAVID MIDDLETON Read by JAMES,THOMASON
2: Mr Robsoti 's Original Work
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
