6.22 Farming Week: presented from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
6.40 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 John Timpson
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
Regional VHF: see last column
appeals once again to the BBC Sound Archives for help in easing the worries of bachelorhood.
Aided by Benny Green. Lance Percival , Esther Rantzen , 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. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Share your grumble with Esther Rantzen : Friday Call,
9.5 am. Her short cuts: page 5
Man's efforts at unpowered flight seem pathetic, even comic - so how do birds manage to leave the ground with such apparent ease?
This is one of your questions discussed by the Wildlife team. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) Questions ton a postcard) to Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
New Every Morning (new edition) p 89: God is my strong salvation (BBC HB 453): Psalm 130: 1 Samuel 28, vv 3-19 (NEB); 0 for a faith (BBC HB 310)
New Every Morning is avail. able from booksellers, price £1.00 (cloth). 50p (paper)
Safe Journey by JAMES PATTINSON
Read by Derek Fowldes
' What you and I need,' Harry said, ' is a holiday in the sun ... lots of booze, lots of birds ... ' But neither of us had the money for that sort of lark. and I told him so ...
(Details as Saturday, 1.15)
The Day I Shall Never Forget
Peter Ustinov tells of a series of strange and entertaining encounters he had with war-time scientists while engaged upon some research into radar.
Presenter Joan Yorke Work and Money
The Contents of Your Home: what is it really worth and for how much should you insure it? NIGEL MURPHY finds out. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Barry Humphries. Show more
Barry Humphries, Australian humorist, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk tilt Two: the third of four discussions on the proposed antidiscrimination bill. 3: How adequate are the Government's proposals put forward in their document Equal Opportunities for Men and Womenf
2.0-2.2 News
Not Just a Mouth-organ: CAROL BLOXSOME plays the harmonica. Reading your letters.
Books on Practical Subjects: ANNE DONALDSON looks at a selection for Christmas. The Long Divorce by EDMUND CRISPIN
Read by TONY BRITTON (6)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
(Tony Britton is in ' No No Nanette ' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London)
Story: Little Pig and the Big Potato by MARGARET GORE
The House on the Strand
The novel by DAPHNE du MAURIER
Lark Rise to Candleford by FLORA THOMPSON : abridged in ten parts by ROGER PINE Read by Eva Haddon
A detailed and charming account of rural life in the last two decades of the 19th century, told from the viewpoint of the poorest members of the community. 1: The Hamlet Producer ROGER PINE
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team
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 , Jean Marsh try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
Written in 1904, this brilliantly perceptive comedy represents Shaw's breakaway from the influence of Ibsen and a return to his native Ireland to seek inspiration for his dramatic writing. His understanding of the Irish and English personality gives the play its particular relevance for today. John Bull 's Other Island by BERNARD SHAW with Martin Jarvis , Sean Barrett
' Ireland, sir. for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven: and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse. It produces two kinds of men In strange perfection: saints and traitors.'
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world, including International Business Report with at 10.25* Market Trends
Wheel Fortune by KAREN CAMPBELL
Read by ANN MORRISH (11)
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 Paul Vaughan
Producer JOY HATWOOD
preceded by Weather
