6.22 Farming Today: GARTH COOPER and BRYAN PLATT
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV ANTHONY PHILLIPS
Introduced by John Timpson Including at 6.50 and 7.50 Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit; Weather and programme news at 6.55 and 7.55.
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35'; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.
by JOHN MASTERS
Read by TONY BRITTON (23) ‡
Include Me Out
Youth has plenty of ideals - too many, perhaps, for comfort. Must these ideals be laid aside when the time comes to take on the challenge of the adult world, or could they be directed to a positive end? Is there no way of including the dropout in? A discussion, chaired by Paddy Feeny between young people and their elders.
Producer PAT TAYLOR
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country
Introduced by EDWARD COLE Producer DAVID WALTER
nem, p 58; Give to our God immortal praise (BBC HB 6); Canticle 1, vv 1-15: Matthew 26, vv 3-16 (Av); I bind unto myself today (BBC HB 170)
The Perfect Day by PAT GARROD Read by Eva Haddon
My grandmother always told me that every single person in the whole world had one perfect day in their lives-never two days, just one ...
The world of Nancy Mitford embraces Uncle Matthew and the Sun King, 'The Bolter' and Mme de Pompadour. For 30 years her novels and biographies have, in the best tradition of 'noblesse oblige,' diverted the common reader.
Such diversions are celebrated by John Julius Norwich, Alan Melville and Amanda Theunissen.
(Bristol)
Only a Matter of Time by F. L. MAYELL
' That Monday Morndng Feeling! It is, I imagine, fairly common in all walks of life. But more so in some . . . '
Producer IAN COTTERELL
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
The New Rent Act: your legal questions answered.
(Monday broadcast)
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Guest: Peter Hall , Director of the National Theatre.
2.1-2.2 News
Sounds like Home: some recent efforts to measure, label and reduce the noise of domestic appliances.
I'm Given the Best Chair: CATHERINE JAY has DO wish to be young again.
On Your Allotment (7): to end the series FRANCES PERRY advises JEAN AND JOHN TUSON On hfting and storing crops. Lady Caroline Lamb by ELIZABETH JENKINS : abridged in eight parts by BA MASON read by Peggy Ashcroft
Of all the affairs that shook an epoch notorious for its scandals, there was none more tempestuous than the liaison between Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron.
(Music: ' With the Wild Geese by Hamilton Harty)
Stories: New Shoes by JUNE CONDON and The Pale Purple Pullover by EMMA MILTON
When the Bough Breaks by IVOR WILSON
Jacky has been John Stern 's pride and joy since she came in at 11. Galloped through ten O-levels blindfold at 15. All set for a scholarship for Oxford and then she begins to fade....
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)
Writing for the BBC, a guidebook for professional, freelance or ' kitchen-table ' writers who want to submit scripts, 40p, from bookshops
says Do You Remembert as he looks back over his years as an entertainer and the friends and colleagues among whom he has spent and continues to spend his very active life. Today he recalls 1NIA TE WIATA; JIMMY JEWEL and BEN WARRISS; EDDIE CALVEHT ; We're in Business with PETER JONES , HARRY WORTH , IRENE HANDL and PADDY EDWARDS ; CAR-ROLL gibbons; The Motorway Men with RONNIE RONALDE. Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Thursday, 7.30 pm)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. TOLKIEN Read by DAVID DAVIS
3: Riddles in The Dark
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
The antidote to panel games from Tim Brooke-Taylor
Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden and William Rushton under the supervision of Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and DAVE LEE at the piano Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Bing Crosby
A light-hearted tribute to the Old Groaner, with the accent on music.
Written by FRANK DIXON Presented by RAY MOORE Producer HERBERT SMITH (Manchester)
Murder a la Carte by RAGAN BUTLER
Sir George Major , a prosperous but worried tycoon, is shocked to learn of the sudden death of one of his best friends in the City, apparently of heart failure....
(For cast see Thursday, 3.5 pm)
London v N Ireland (Round 4)
Presenter Gordon SneU Producer ALAN RAYDOCK
Douglas Stuart reporting
Lost Horizon by JAMES HILTON
Read by GEOFFREY MATTHEWS (8)
3: Not all science fiction is concerned with flights to the planets: more and more writers are exploring the complexities of man's mind.
With the help of CHRISTOPHER PRIEST, PHILIP STRICK and other science fiction writers. JANE FINNIS reviews some works that concentrate on Inner Space.'
preceded by Weather