6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manlo in London and John Timpson in Luxembourg
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.5t-8.« Regional news, weather and programme news
and more of Today
(including in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES )
VHF East Anglia: see column 5
8.40 Today's Papers
Religious Service for Primary Schools
The Lord's Prayer by MARGARET E. ROSE
8: Thine is the Kingdom
personal view of Edinburgh Produced by SHEILA ANDERSON
(First broadcast in the BBC World Service)
Movement and Music 1 for the 5-6-year-olds by PENNY WHITTAM
Nativity of St John the Baptist NEM p 11; On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (BBC HB 38); Psalm 116; Luke 1, vv 5-17; 0 God of Bethel (BBC HB 495)
Christian Focus
8: Listeners' own work
10.50 Prejudice
Where does prejudice come from and how can we fight it? Compiled by MARIANNE COOK (Material for Assembly)
11.0 Time and Tune: Farms Written and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Your Work and Ideas by MARGERY MORRIS
Produced by DICKON READ . (Man)
11.40 Johannesburg by PETER LEHOLA. (Geography)
Jeanine McMullen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
Is it fit for you?: MONTY MODLYN samples some of the less ener
.getic methods of keeping healthy and in trim.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA; or phone [number removed], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: see column 5
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Big Fat Puss Cat by SHEILA HAYLEY
Living Language
Writing by listeners
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS
2.20 Poetry Corner
Let's hear it again
A programme of records introduced by Gerald Moore
by BERRIE DAVIS with Mary Wimbush
with MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
by SIR WALTER SCOTT abridged in eight parts Read by BRYDEN MURDOCH
1 Built 'of a greyish stone, the tower stood glimmering in the moonlight like the sheeted spectre of some huge giant. A wilder or more disconsolate dwelling it was perhaps difficult to conceive.'
3: Wolf's Crag
Produced by GORDON EMSLIE
The news magazine that sums up your day-and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
From the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
Beware of the Dog
(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)
Tom Bostock presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
Produced by ROY HAYWARD (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Written by ALEXANDER WALKER
The first in an occasional new series of programmes on major political trials of this century edited by TOSCO FYVEL
1947: the American film indus' try and a handful of men whose careers were changed viciously and dramatically by a political ' witch-hunt.' Narrated by Alan Dobie with the voices of DAVID BAUER GLEN BECK. BILL NAGY
DAVID HEALY , STEPHEN THORNE BLAIN FAIRMAN. MURRAY KASH LOUIS NEGIN , EDDIE MATTHEWS and MARGARET WOLFIT Also taking part:
ABRAHAM POLONSKY and RALPH NELSON talking to
ALEXANDER WALKER on the im. plications of the events of that year in Hollywood.
Produced by MAURICE LEITCH (The darker side of the screen: page 9)
Cabinet Ministers and eminent scientists, housewives and schoolboys - why do they all listen to New Worldst After all it's only a programme of discovery and invention. Presenter PAUL VAUGHAN Producer LAURIE JOHN
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Bhowani Junction by JOHN MASTERS
Read by MIRIAM MARGOLYES (9)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends