Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern. VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Today's listening; weather
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers .
7.45 Outlook
with Paul Barnes in London and Desmond Lynam in Montreal. The 1976 Olympic Games will be opened later today by Her Majesty The Queen. Latest news from Montreal, with comment and personality interviews. At 8.0
News and more of Today with at 8.25* VHF Regional news and weather
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 The Week In Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with HUGO YOUNG
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES invites journalists to confront their readers and the people they have written about in the press this week. Narrator JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER and ANNE SLOMAH
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New Every Morning, page 102; God of eternity, Lord of the ages (BBC Hymn Book 390); Psalm 147, vv 1-12; Colossians 1, v 24 to 2, v 5 (NEB); All praise to thee, who safe hast kept (BBC HB 401)
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Presented by Geoff Watts
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Russell Braddon
Margo MacDonald
Nicholas Fairbairn , ur Sir William Gray
Chairman David Jacobs from West Lothian
Jill Burridge and Andy Price sometimes in control of a lively hour, with reporters at large and guests in the studio. And JOHN HOLLIS reads Stories of the Night Watchman by w. w. JACOBS, abridged by MONICA GREY . 5: Captairu All Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Prospero's Farewell
The second of three plays about the life and times of William Shakespeare by H. F. RUBINSTEIN (1891-1975)
An impression of the dramatist at work on The Tempest on the eve of his retirement to Stratford-upon-Avon In 1610.
The action takes place in the Mermaid Tavern in London. Produced and directed by CHARLES LEFEAUX
as Radio 3
Gordon Clough
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Unpredictable table-talk bounced off the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense.
Musical intervals by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
The poet Philip Larkin chooses the records he would take to a desert island, and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
(Repeated; Monday 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
by Stephen Barlay
with Gabriel Woolf
When a Sarissa, the loveliest plane to cross the skies, crashes on take-off at Singapore, its Captain fights to prove that it was not his fault.
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
The story of Queen Victoria. her life and the great events of her time in a series of 13 episodes.
3: God Save the Queen by THEA HOLME with Peggy Ashcroft and Maurice Denham
' The pleasantest summer I ever passed in my life.'
Produced and directed by NESTA PAIN
Evening prayers led by ANGELA TILBY
preceded by Weather
