6.27 Farming Week: presented from Leeds by KENNETH FORD
6.45 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
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:
CLAUDE and MARTIN MUNCASTER
7.50 Travel
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
by VICTOR CANNING : abridged in ten parts by HOWARD JONES Read by Brian Hewlett
An exciting and poignant story of escape and pursuit: Smiler, a young boy, is on the run from a reform school and the police; Yarra. a female cheetah, is on the run from the warden of a wild-game reserve of an English stately home ... 1: Lightning Strikes Twice Producer DEREK HODDINOTT
aided by Linda Blandford , Harriet Crawley , Lance Perci val, Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl and other regulars. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
This is a programme made by listeners who are interested in wildlife - the sounds you asked to hear, subjects you want to know more about, your own observations of wildlife.
This month's requests include enquiries about bird-tables; butterflies in September; and why do worms turn?
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
Questions (on a postcard) to Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM p 80; 0 for a closer walk with God (BBC HB 333); Psalm 11; St Mark 4, vv 21-34 Uv); God is our refuge (BBC HB 454)
Even Pigeons by SHEILA DALTON Reader Cyril Shaps
He didn'think he could miss anyone now, after all these years. They hadn'even spoken. At least, he hadn't. But the sight of the waiting pigeons, the silence of the square, all spoke of her absence....
Saturday. 7 September 1940, was the day the London Blitz began. It was also the night the dreaded codeword ' Cromwell' was issued: the night the church bells rang....
In this programme, first broadcast in September 1971, David Mahlowe introduces the first-hand memories of men and women who recall the events of May-September 1940, which culminated in The Invasion that Never Was.
Written by NORMAN LONGMATE Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON (from Manchester)
If Britain Had Fallen by Norman Longmate: a BBC/Hutchinson publication at £2.50
Scrapbook for 1941: Tues, 8. SO
JOHN ELLISON talks to Val Doonican
(From the BBC Sound Archives)
Presenter Nancy Wise
Work and Money: So You Want to be a Solicitor? FRANCES BERTHELSEN finds out how you set about it -the snags to avoid and the problems involved. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is concert pianist Earl Wild. Show more
Earl Wild, virtuoso pianist.
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 MacGregcr Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Nothing to be Miserable About: HILARY POLE is physically but not spiritually paralysed.
And a Good Job Too: ideas for women who want to return to work. MARGARET KORVING looks at opportunities in the beauty business.
Poetry on a Theme: LINDSAY EVANS chooses poems about schooldays.
ANNA BARRY reads The Nightingale by RICHARD CHURCH (5)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Giant and the Harp by OLIVE DOVE
The Rise and Fall of Liberty Wilkes by BALFOUR BARWISE (Saturdays broadcast)
The Fortnight in September by R. C. SHERRIFF abridgedbyMichaelrolfb Read by JOHN ROWE
6: Stale Sunday Buns
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 medium irate only 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)
(Sheila Hancock is in ' Absurd Person Singular ' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Alec Clunes, Robert Eddison Maxine Audley, Ernest Milton
The Life and Death of King John by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE arranged for radio by RAYMOND RAIKES
Music composed by THOMAS EASTWOOD
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA conducted by LIONEL SALTER
Producer RAYMOND RAIKES
Beatrice Forbes Robertson , niece of the famous actor Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson , remembers her childhood encounters with some of the great figures of the 1890s.
9.29 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with John Tusa in Blackpool at the TUC Conference
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
The Twelfth Mile by E. G. PERRAULT
Read by STEPHEN THORNE (6)
A nightly review of the arts and science. Introduced by Peter France
How has marriage fared in the social changes of the last 25 years, and is the definition of marriage as we have traditionally come to accept it broad enough to adapt itself to the changing attitudes and the many opportunities now open to every girl?
Nancy Wise talks to five couples, each with a life-style quite commonly found, and tries to assess how they are coming to terms with marriage in 1973. 1: RON and CATHY explain to NANCY WISE their reasons for supporting ' open marriage.' Producer MARLENE PEASE
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
