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
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 Talking Politics
Anthony King looks at the American experience of a Bill of Rights and asks, ' Should we have one too? '
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 GRAHAM MYTTON
ANNE SLOMAN and DAVID WALTER
New Every Morning, page 30; When I survey the wondrous Cross (BBC Hymn Book 97); Canticle 5; Matthew 5, vv 38-48 (RSV); 0 dearest Lord, thy sacred head (BBC HB 358)
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer MADEAU STEWART
A report by Geoff Watts
Dare we open Pandora's box? Do scientists ever make mistakes? Does science need a new identity? What is new in scientific research? These are some of the intriguing questions discussed at the Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. this week at the University of Lancaster.
Producer THELMA RUMSEY
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
with William Blezard at the piano
A programme in which Miss Grenfell remembers some of her best-loved monologues and songs.
Words by JOYCE GRENFELL Music by RICHARD ADINSELL Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Monday 11.5 am)
Weekend with Anne Gregg and Peter Windows gives a cheery wave as the children head back to school and looks at some of the subjects they probably will not be studying - the legal facts of life, for example. (And how much do you know about your rights and obligations? Try our quiz and find out on the quiet.) Or join us in an uplifting chorus when Michael Paget revives some spirituals, before COLETTE O'NEIL reads the first of six instalments of A Breath of Border Air by LAVINIA DERWENT , abridged by MYRA BEATON. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
No Hand-outs by MARIA CHARLES
' I had nothing all my life, nothing to love. Someone gave me a kitten once, my old man drowned it. Said we couldn't afford its food. Less beer for him, I s'pose ... That's why I'm going right away with my baby, and no one will know us and we'll be left in peace.'
Song composed by JOHN TURNER sung by SUE BRINE
Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Wed 11.30 am)
as Radio 3
Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A series of six plays based on the novels of GEORGES StMENON with 3: Maigret has Scruples translated by ROBERT EGLESFIELD and adapted for radio byEDWARD BRUCE with Produced and directed by GLYN DEARMAN
(Repeated: Friday 8.30 pm)
(Michael Gough is a National Theatre player)
Actor George Cole 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)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
A pastoral comedy for radio by Alan Melville with Michael Spice and Mary Wimbush
The rural peace of Dallingford is shattered by the news that the BBC plans to televise Songs of Praise from the local church. Despite parochial rivalries the holy show must go on - or must it?
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
The story of Queen Victoria. her life and the great events of her time, in 13 episodes. with Peggy Ashcroft as the Queen
10: The Queen and the GOM by WILL ALLAN and HALLAM TENNYSON with Stephen Murray as Gladstone
(' The Grand Old Man ')
' The poor but really wicked GOM has made two dreadful speeches.'
With BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT JAMES THOMASON. SAM DASTOR VERNON JOYNER , JOHN FORREST
DAVID SINCLAIR and DIANA BISHOP Ballads chosen by CHARLES CHILTON and sung by CHARLES YOUNG accompanied by TERRY LYNCH Produced and directed by HALLAM TENNYSON
(Shortened version of the programme broadcast in 1974)
Led by REV RALPH SMITH BBC Scotland
preceded by Weather
