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
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News and more of Today with at 8.25* VHF Regional news and weather
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Talking Politics
Anthony King presents the third of six programmes in which he asks: have our political institutions anything to learn from the Americans? This week he looks at Congress, its powerful Committees and its huge backup staffs
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 DAVID WILMOTT Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
ANNE SLOMAN and GRAHAM MYTTON
New Every Morning, page 79; My soul, praise the Lord! (BBC Hymn Book 463); Canticle 6, part 2; 1 John 1, v 1 to 2, v 2 (RSV); 0 food of men wayfaring (BBC HB 209)
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
Old Fourlegs
Presented by Anthony Smith
Three hundred and sixty million years ago, coelacanths, primitive fishes related to the marine ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals, swam and crawled around the seas. They were thought to have become extinct 75 million years ago. Just before Christmas 1938, quite by chance, a strange blue lizard-like creature was spotted in a pile of discarded fish at a South African fish market. It was identified as a coelacanth, and the 80 specimens caught since have given zoologists a rare opportunity to discover just how this ' living fossil ' uses its curious limb-like fins.
Those taking part:
DR HUMPHREY GREENWOOD and DR PETER FOREY of the British Museum of Natural History. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings...
12.55
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Ludovic Kennedy Melvyn Bragg
Michael Clayton
Baroness Masham
Chairman David Jacobs from Cumbria
Jill Burridge and Peter Windows are joined, among others, by Frank Muir talking about shoes, ships, sealing wax and cabbage, and Barbara Softly talking about Queens.
And John Hollis reads Stories of the Night Watchman by W.W. Jacobs, abridged by Monica Grey. 9: The Unknown
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
(The Frank Muir Version begins on Monday at 7.30 pm)
A Victim of the System by DONALD BULL with Nigel Stock , Nigel Hawthorne
Halmar Loden , an American financial tycoon, has made certain fatal arrangements which are rudely interrupted by the arrival of an unexpected stranger,
Produced and directed by MARTIN JENKINS
The wisdom of old age: music from very late in the lives of three great composers. Strauss Four Last Songs lisa DELLA CASA (soprano)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM
Verdi Laudi alia Vergine (Four Sacred Pieces)
LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA (gramophone records)
Haydn Piano Trio No 31, inflat minor: PERRY HART (violin) JOAN DICKSON (cello)
WILLIAM GLOCK (piano) Verdi Ave Maria (Four Sacred Pieces): PHILHARMONIA CHORUS conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
Haydn Symphony No 92, in G major (Oxford)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER (gramophone records)
Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.55
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Unpredictable table-talk bounced off the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense, with observers of, and contributors to, the current social, artistic and political scene.
Musical intervals by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer HUGH PURCELL
James Galway, the flautist, chooses the records he would take to a desert island, and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
I hear there are some rather special pieces of silver at this sale at Kildruim. Supposed to belong to Bonnie Prince Charlie or so the papers said .. -. The Glenfinnan Hoard, they called it. The lust for worldly goods is taking a lot of people north this morning.'
BBC Scotland
The story of Queen Victoria, her life and the great events of her time in a series of 13 episodes. with and 7: The Idylls of the Queen by DENIS CONSTANDUROS
' Albert makes a capital nurse."
Produced and directed by NESTA PAIN
Evening prayers led by REV LLOYD WALTERS BBC Wales
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