6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV PAUL BARBER
The Royal Wedding: John Timpson in Westminster Abbey and Today reporters out on the processional route set the scene for a day of ceremony and colour.
Plus the rest of the morning's news from anywhere on earth introduced by 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
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
Families from all over Britain talk about their beliefs, feelings, and practice when it comes to contact between home and school. Does the school care? How much do parents know about school life? What do the children tell them?
Introduced by Jan Brookes
Research by JANICE DICKERSON Producer JOCELYN ryder-smith (Birmingham)
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country. Introduced bv MICHAEL DE MORGAN Producer TOM READ
New Every Morning (new edition) p 42; Jesus. Lord, we look to thee (BBC bb 374); Psalm 122; 1 Samuel 3, vv 1-12 (neb); Father we thank thee who hast planted (BBC HB 201)
The Brown Dog's Day by GEORGE HITCHIN
Read by Frank Duncan
The little brown dog was trotting up the lane towards the flower market with a mullet skin in his mouth and his brown banner waving in triumph ...
in Westminster Abbey
The departure from Buckingham Palace and the arrival at the Abbey of HM The Queen, HRH The Bride and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, and other members of the Royal Family
11.30 The Marriage Service Flourish: sounded by TRUMPETERS OF THE 1st the QUEEN'S DRAGOON GUARDS
Procession of The Bride:
Hymn: Glorious things of thee are spoken.
Introduction by The Dean of Westminster
Solemnisation of the Marriage by The Archbishop of Canterbury
Psalm 23: The Lord's my shepherd (Crimond)
The Lord's Prayer and Responses led by The Precenter
Prayers said by The Rev and Hon Andrew Elphinstone
Choir: God be in my head (Watford Davies)
Reading: Ephesians 6, vv 10-18 by The Bishop of Maidstone
Hymn: Immortal, invisible, God only wise.
Blessing by The Dean of Westminster
The National Anthem
Anthems during the signing of the Registers: Let all the world in every corner sing (Vaughan Williams); Let their celestial concerts all unite (Handel)
Fanfare; Toccata in f (Widor) Fanfares by Sir Arthur Bliss played by TRUMPETERS OF THE ROYAL MILITARY SCHOOL OF MUSIC, KNELLER HALL, conducted by LT-COL R. B. BASHFORD
Sub-organist of Westminster Abbey Timothy Farrell
Organist of the Chapel Royal Harry Gabb
Choir of Westminster Abbey and the Gentlemen and Children of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal under the direction of Douglas Guest, Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey
12.30 The departure of the Bride and Bridegroom from Westminster Abbey. The procession to Buckingham Palace. Commentators: AUDREY RUSSELL in the Abbey; ROBERT HUDSON outside the West Door: BRIAN JOHNSTON at Horse Guards Parade: PETER JONES outside Buckingham Palace.
Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
See feature pages
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Michael Cooke
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Leslie Thomas
2.0-2.2 News
From Westminster to Great Somerford: the bellringers are at work.
Reading your letters.
Sounds of the Countryside - in November: RAY GOODWIN with recordings and comments. DELIA PATON reads
The Life of Charlotte Bronte" by MRS GASKELL (10)
Story: Mrs Cluckabiddy 's Party by STEPHEN WEAVER
Julie Sumner by JOHN WHITEWOOD with ' How can I explain to my own child that her father is a paralysing bore, that her mummy doesn'love her daddy any more? ' When the Sumners separate, the upheaval affects more lives than their own.
Producer JOHN CARDY
A Gentleman of France 3: The Velvet Knot
Michael Cooke
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send are discussed this week by Renée Houston Margaret Powell
Rita Merkelis , Ena Twigg In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pnu
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland
Highlights from this morning's wedding of HRH The Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey
Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
The Missing Witness by JAMES FAIRFAX
'There are no independent witnesses to the accident in the police report, but the defence don'know what witnesses we may have dug up and we don'know about theirs. Both sides keep that very secret when they're playing the damages game.'
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (Leeds) (Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm) (John Blythe is in ' Gypsy' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)
Change Without War
Six talks about the shifting structures of world power by Alastair Buchan , Professor of International Relations, Oxford University.
1: The New Climate of World Politics
The Second World War produced profound changes in the structure of power in the world. Professor Buchan argues that we are now in the midst of a period of change at least as far-reaching, and asks: towards what kind of world order or system are we heading?
Producer ANTHONY moncrieff
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world, including International Business Report with at 10.25' Market Trends
Wheel Fortune
Read by ANN MORRISH (3)
A nightly review of the arts and science.
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. Introduced tonight by Paul Vaughan Producer joy HATWOOD
preceded by Weather
