6.27 Farming Week: presented by ROSS MUIR from Aberdeen
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 Robert Robinson and Mary Marquis
6.50
Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with Eileen Fowler
6.55 Weather, programme newt
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: JOHN RAYNER
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 VHP: see last column
by HERMAN wouk : abridged in 25 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Read by PETER MARINKER 6: First Day at Sea
Aided by Linda Blandford , Harriet Crawley , Lance Percival , 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.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
This is the programme made by listeners who are interested in wildlife - the sounds you ask to hear, subjects you want to know about, your own observations of wildlife.
This month's requests include: an explanation of what is called ' sub-song ' in birds, how to get the best out of' visit to the seaside, and ways of attracting frogs to your garden pool.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
Questions (on a postcard) to Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM p 99; Through the night of doubt and sorrow (BBC hb 186); Psalm 118, vv 13-24; Acts 20, vv 28-38 (NEB); Soldiers, who are Christ's below (BBC HB 337)
My Greatest Ambition by MORRIS LURIE
Read by Edward Kelsey
' I was the only person in my class - probably in the whole school - who wanted to be a comic-strip artist ... I was shown into an office filled with men in grey suits ..
Glyndebourne and wanders round the opera house in the heart of Sussex. He recalls the voices from past seasons and relives some of his own memories as a Glyndebourne singer.
Producer HELEN FRY
Glyndebourne comes to the Proms tonight: 7.30 pm Radio 3
Presenter Nancy Wise Work and Money
Silver as a gift or an Investment? How should you choose, and where? FRANCES BERTHELSEN finds out.
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 actor and playwright Colin Welland. Show more
Colin Welland, actor and playwright, with Roy Plomley.
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
A Chimp in the House: DR SUSANNE HART tells JOAN PYPER about Hugo and other wild-animal patients.
Poetry on a Theme: MARY CRAIG chooses poems of wonder.
And a Good Job Too: MARGARET KORVING looks at career opportunities for women wanting an interesting job in banking. KERRY FRANCIS reads
Sitting Duck by BRYCE FRASER (7) Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Nail Soup (trad)
Murder at the Eisteddfod by BRIAN EVANS
Sloop of War by ALEXANDER KENT abridged in ten parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by Michael Harbour
In 1778'England found herself at war with her American Colonies. For Richard Bolitho , already 10 years in the King's Service at the age of 22, the preliminary skirmishing had offered the opportunity to prove himself. Now he gains his reward - command of the sloop of war Sparrow and deep involvement in the conflict which is to culminate in the Battle of the Chesapeake. 1: The Most Coveted Gift Producer ROGER PINE
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Derek Nimmo , Peter Jones Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer SIMON BRETT
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Soccer star Bobby Charlton , now the new manager of Preston North End FC, talks to DEREK JONES about his little-known interest in ornithology, with illustrations from the BBC's collection of wildlife sound recordings.
Producer JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)
Pray for the Wanderer
An Irish romance of the 1930s by KATE O'BRIEN : adapted for radio by GUY VAESEN
'You're looking very sad, Matt. You have a sad sort of face.'
Have I? '
' Why don'you get married? ' ' Find me a wife.'
'I wouldn'dare. You'd be hard to please.'
Producer GUY VAESEN
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Golden voice: Letters, page 55
Queen Lucia by E. F, BENSON abridged in 15 parts by PHILIP LEAVER
Read by Aubrey Woods (1) with piano music composed and played by RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
To describe Lucia as a snob would be to describe Leonardo as a talented man
(MICHEAL MAC LIAMMOIR)
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
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 Peter France
Producers this week
ALAN HAYDOCK. MICHAEL BRIGHT ROSEMARY HART , JOY HATWOOD
Sex Appeal is a powerful force which the media exploit to the full. This week, in five programmes, we look at the ways in which the Press, Advertising, the Cinema, the Romantic Novel, and Pop Music use it to promote sales or draw an audience.
1: BILL GRUNDY takes a look at the influence of sex appeal on the sale of newspapers. Producer MARLENE PEASE
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
