6.32 FARMING TODAY
East Anglian edition
Introduced by GORDON MOSLEY
6.50 THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK from THE REV. JOHN JACKSON
6.55 WEATHER and Programme News
7.10 SOUTH-EAST NEWS
7.15 TODAY
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
7.45 TODAY'S PAPERS
7.50 TEN TO EIGHT
Why should I love my neighbour?
HARMAN GRISEWOOD
7.55 WEATHER and Programme News
8.10 SOUTH-EAST NEWS
8.15 TODAY
Revised second edition
8.40 TODAY'S PAPERS
David FRANKLIN ponders on the dangers and delights of staying in hotels
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
Reports from Britain and overseas
Revised edition of Sunday's broadcast
For the expert, the novice and people who simply like ' messing about in boats '
Introduced by PETER WHEELER
Produced by Don Mosey
The particular success of last year's series was the inclusion of features on inland waterways, which provoked so many letters that four programmes dealing exclusively with this branch of sailing were broadcast in May this year. The present series again covers facilities, events, and personalities throughout the British Isles.
New Every Morning, page 22
My Lord, my Life, my Love (BBC
H.B. 330)
Psalm 9
Acts 27, vv. 1-17 (R.S.V.)
Eternal Father, strong to save
(BBC H.B. 384)
ORCHESTRA
Leader, Maurice Brett
Conducted by TERENCE LOVETT with DAVID AND MARIANNE DALMOUR
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
by Alison Uttley adapted by KERI LEWIS
Storyteller, PATRICIA GREENE
Penelope Taberner Cameron and her- brother and sister went to stay at Thackers Farm looking forward to a country holiday. For Penelope it was the beginning of a strange adventure, because Thackers had once been the home of Anthony Babington , and he had plotted there to rescue the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots. The past of Thackers soon became more real to Penelope than the present.
1: Thackers Farm
Produced by Anthony Cornish
Broadcast in Story Time on November 10, 1967
The Magic Isle
On the day of Tynwald NORMAN TURNER visits the Isle of Man to find out about the places and the people, the fairies and the fishing, the cats and the customs
BBC Sound Archives production by Denis Lewell
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by JACK PIZZEY
Friday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Story: ' 'The Little Tugboat' by Jacqueline Cahill
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by KENNETH ALWYN
STUTTGART LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILLY MATTES
PAUL DURAND AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Recordings made available by courtesy of South German and French Radios
BRUCE RENTON accompanied the late Professor Ernesto de Martino on one of his ' expeditions ' to the magic regions of southern Italy: the professor, a Marxist, had made a special study of magic in the south. Mr. Renton talks about the magical rites, which he illustrates with a recording the professor made in 1960.
Robert's Wife by St. John Ervine adapted for radio by ARCHIE CAMPBELL with Jessie Matthews
The scene is laid in the living-room of St. Michael and AU Angels Vicarage, Combermere, an industrial town in the South of England.
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Saturday's broadcast
A family magazine introduced by JEREMY CARRAD from the South and West tDodington: the eighteenth-century home of the Codrington family is open to the public. PAUL AMPIILETT , the Comptroller, talks to Pamela Howe
Reading between the lines: BRIAN GEAR recommends some books about music and musicians
Playing the Fit-ups: theatrical memories from Eric Jones -EVANS
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe abridged by NEVILLE TELLER as an eight-part reading
Read by NORMAN RODWAY
Part 1: In which I disregard the advice of 'parents and elders and run away to sea, only to suffer the consequences of heedless folly by being shipwrecked, and finding myself cast away, alone and friendless, on a desert island.
Produced by Ronald Mason
Broadcast on August 19, 1965
and Programme News
Tonight's evening paper of the air
Reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard-Sportsdesk-Stop Press
Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit
ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and David FRANKLIN in the chair
Produced by Bobby Jaye
Pre-recorded at The Paris. Lower
Regent Street. London. S.W.I.
Introduced by Jack Brymer played by the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by VILEM TAUSKY including:
The Life I Gave You by Luigi Pirandello
Translated by FREDERICK MAT with Rachel Gurney , Sheila Allen and Kathleen Helme
I know that God cannot die in every one of his creatures that dies. And you cannot tell me that my child, the creation of my body, is dead. Instead you tell me that God has taken him back unto Himself ... You should tell me that God wants my son to continue to live for me! ' .
The action takes place in Donn' Anna's lonely villa in the Tuscan countryside in the 1920s.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Sheila Allen is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company See page 32
Papillons, Op. 2
ALFRED CORTOT (piano) gramophone record
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
GILBERT PHELPS introduces letters from today's postbag
10.59 Weather forecast
Elephant Walk by ROBERT STANDISH abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY
Produced by John Cardy
First of twenty instalments
' shall build my house here, Appuhamy,' said Tom Carey. 'There is no better site in all Ceylon.' 'If the Master wishes to build his house here, he will build it here,' replied Appuhamy. ' But it lies astride the elephant trail. It is not wise to make enemies of the Elephant people. It is a spot of ill-omen. No good will come of it.'
PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON
Directed by THURSTON DART (harpsichord) gramophone records
11.45* Forecast for coastal waters