6.22 Farming Week: presented from East Anglia by DAVID RICHARDSON
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
Introduced by Michael Clayton and Nancy Wise
Including at 6.50 and 7.51 med wave only Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER ; Weather and prog news at 6.55 and 7.55.
At 7.0 and 8.4 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.15 and 8.25; Todays Papers at 7.35* and 8.35'; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
by JOHN MASTERS
GARARD GREEN , as Patrick Taylor, begins the story: abridged in 25 episodes by DONALD BANCROFT India 1946. With the British preparing to pull out after 300 years, change is coming to the sub-continent - change for the English, for the Indians and especially for those of mixed race. the Anglo-Indians.
Producer JOHN CARDY
(Broadcast, as A Book at Bedtime: 1971)
Aided by Harriet Crawley , Benny Green. Lance Percival , Esther Rantzrn , Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spicgl.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Can you imagine a dragonfly the size of a crow? Don' worry, that was 280-million years ago. Today's dragonflies are smaller but still among the largest and fastest-flying of living insects. We'll be giving hints about those to look out for in August, as well as facts about how birds renew worn feathers.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer ROBIN PRYTHEFTCH
Series producer
DILYS BREESE : (Bristol)
NEM, p 79; All as God wills (BBC HB 1); Canticle 6, part 2; Matthew 16, vv 1-12 (AV); At thy feet, 0 Christ (BBC HB 402)
Thumbs Down by TIMOTHY CLIFFORD
Read by Ronnie Fletcher
Mr Pelly wished his car were fitted with an ejector seat. At the touch of a button he could have sent the old man orbiting out of his car and out of his life ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
11.50 Anouncementi
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
A Day in the Life of an Estate Agent: TIM MATTHEWS finds out that there is more to surveying. selling and buying houses than meets the eye.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Roland Culver. Show more
Roland Culver, actor
Weather, programme news
Robert Williams
Editor ANDREW BOYLI
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Showing the Flag: a showcase for 33 nations at the Commonwealth Institute.
2.0-2.2 News
Room to Spare?: PAT BENNETT looks at the pros and cons of being a landlady for students. Reading your letters.
The Lotus Eater and the Princess: MICHAEL WATKINS finds them in Titik.
The Occupying Power by EVELYN ANTHONY : abridged in 14 parts by MYRA BEATON Read by Gabriel Woolf
When Roger Savage is dropped into occupied France in 1944. his mission is to secure the success of the D-Day landings. But what if the price of success is the lives of innocent children? (Music: 'The Wooden Prince ' bv Bartoki
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Treats and Outings by ELAINE DAVIS
Presenters this week
AURIOL SMITH and TONY AITKEN
Scripts by RACHAEL BIRLEY
Producer JENYTB WORSLEY
The Taste of Proof
The Plymouth Adventure by ERNEST GEBLER
Read by COLIN FISHER
The Pilgrim Fathers and crew of the Mayflouer have survived a terrible crossing of the Atlantic in 1620 to gain. at last, their first sight of land for 3,000 miles. But now their hardships are only just beginning. 6: First Steps in the New World
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 medium ware only Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in A Break for
Sir Gregory LAMB : This could be one of the best forms we've devised.
LENNOX-BROWN: We'll use our speciality. ' If address has changed and you have not received this form. tick here and return at once!'
NORMA RONALD , RONALD BADDILET JOHN GRAHAM , GILLIE GRATHAM written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBT
Editor DEREK LEWIS
and
in The Burghers of Calais by GEORG KAISER (written in 1913) translated by J. M. RITCHIE and REX LAST : adapted and produced by JOHN THEOCHARIS
The King of England, besieging Calais during the Hundred Years War, decrees that to avert destruction of the city six Councillors shall be hanged at dawn. In fact, seven volunteer. But who wants to die when he has a chance to live?
With SEAN ARNOLD , ALAN DUDLEY VERNON JOYNER , PETER PACEY DIANA OLSSON. EMILY RICHARD
Music composed and conducted by DAVID CAIN
MARTIN NICHOLLS , ROGER BRENNER Roger GROVES (trombones)
JOHN R. Mitchell ( percussion) and a male chorus with MARTYN HILL (tenor)
(Derek Godfrey and William Squire are National Theatre players)
Presenter Peter France Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY
Editor DEREK LEWIS
burmese days by George Orwell edited and read in 15 parts by geoffrey beevers
AN EARLY NOVEL OF AN EXPATRIATE ENGLISHMAN IN THE burman civil service, reflectING ORWELL'S OWN EXPERIENCES AS A YOUNG MAN IN THE BURman police. 1: u po kyin
Producer MARGARET Stall
After 15 years of life in London and travel abroad, Wilfred De'Ath recently discovered the English countryside for the first time. For some months he went to live in a small fiat in Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast. In four talks he describes his experience of a rural community after an anonymous metropolitan one.
1: Spring - tired of London or tired o/ li/ef
preceded by Weather
