6.32 Farming Today market trends, news, weather
6.50 Ten to Seven
6.55 Weather: programme news
Today's Time: GTS 7.0.8.0.9.0 am
1.0, 6.0, 11.0 pm
10.0 pm
7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time magazine introduced by tim MATTHEWS
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
I'd like to put that right WILLIAM DRUMMOND
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
(revised second edition)
8.40 Today's Papers
a short story by NORAH BURKE read by HUGH DICKSON
She was, after all, only a girl child, not a son. and therefore - though he loved her dearly-a great disappointment to him
Sir Walford Davies
DEREK PARKER introduces a portrait of the famous music teacher, organist, choirmaster, and populariser of music, with GEORGE DIXON , SIDNEY HARRISON , and the recorded voice of SIR WALFORD DAVIES
Produced by DENYS GUEROULT
A story of international research into the first virus found in a human cancer told by DR DEMis BURKiTT , who identified the cancer in Africa; PROFESSOR ANTHONY EPSTEIN , Who discovered the virus; DRS WERNER AND BRIGITTE HENLE from Philadelphia, who associated the same virus with glandular fever; DR PETER BIGGS , who helped to establish a similar virus as the cause of a cancer in chickens; and PROFESSOR GEORGE KLEIN from Stockholm, who studies how the virus changes human cells
Introduced and produced by RICHARD KEEN
NEM p 26; My song is love unknown (BBC HB 84); Canticle 5; St. John 11, w 45-54; Alone thou goest forth, 0 Lord (BBC HB 79)
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conductor KENNETH ALWYN
HENRY KREIN AND HIS QUARTET introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
by SAMUEL SELVON
A series of seven half-hour plavs by the West Indian writer who has adapted them for radio from his book The Lonely Londoners. They tell of the progress, and lack of it, of a Trinidadian, Moses Aloetta, who after living in London for many years, decides he wants to go home again to the sun
He is surrounded by a group of fellow-immigrants from Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Nigeria who constantly take advantage of his good nature and frustrate his plans with Horace James as Moses 1: Sir Galahad Arrives
Big City NICHOLAS EDMETT Cap FEMIEUBA Harris
KENNETH GARDNIER TolroY KEEFE WEST
Reporter HAYDN JONES Ma MONA HAMMOND
Tanty MYRTLE ROBINSON
Galahad RUDOLPH WALKER
Other parts DAVID BRIERLEY and KEEFE WEST
Produced by KEITH Williams
In a series of programmes LIAM NOLAN takes a light-hearted look at the affinity that exists between ' pairs ' in various sections of the entertainment world. This week: film duettists
Produced by DAVID ALLAN
ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair
and programme news
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Today's story for children under five is
Robert's Problem by JEAN CRABB
from PAUL MARTIN , featuring the ORCHESTRA Conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON Produced by MADEAU STEWART
In Easter week, just before the British Trade Fair opened, Avril Mollison was in Brazil concerned to bring back with her not an account of commercial interest but a portrait of SAo Paulo seen through the eyes of some of its English-speaking citizens
Produced by Patrick Harvey
I, Said the Sparrow by JAMES BRYANT
A stab in the back doesn'necessarily need a knife, just a temptation with Eileen Atkins and Geoffrey Matthews
Produced by DAVID A. TURNER
A portrait of a period drawn from what remains to be seen 6: The Twentieth Century written and presented by CHARLES CHILTON and illustrated with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by SHEILA ANDERSON
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including: I wanted a hundred pounds: NANCY MITFORD at her home in Versailles tells ANNE SUTER how she became a writer and went to France
Home and Dry: MICHAEL MEECH meets one of Shelter's success stories
Go peel a prawn: ZENA SKINNER gives a recipe to make a few prawns go a long way Your letters
joss ACKLAND reads from the book by R. s. SURTEES abridged in ten episodes by HOWARD JONES 10: After the Feast
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN
and programme news
and Radio Newsreel
Tonight's evening paper of the air with reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard - Sportsdesk - Stop Press: introduced by TIM GUDGIN
Problems from listeners' letters discussed by RENÉE HOUSTON MARY STOCKS, ISOBEL BARNETT KATHARINE WHITEHORN
In the chair ANONA WINN Devised by ANONA winn and IAN MESSITER
Produced bv CHRISTOPHER SERLE
Bruce Beeby as Robert Schumann
Bernard Keeffe as Narrator
Other parts: FRANK HENDERSON ELIZABETH PROUD
HUMPHREY MORTON
Written and compiled by BERNARD KEEFFE
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
as kept by LEWIS HOLLAND THOMAS 1842-46
Sybil Thorndike reads extracts from the journal of the schooner Laura Ann on a round voyage from England to the South Pacific islands (via Cape Horn) kept by her Master, who was the grandfather of Sir Lewis Casson. The Master's wife accompanied him on the voyage, and their daughter Laura Ann named after the ship, was born in Peru. The journal was written to tell her about her mother, who died soon after their return to England
Arranged for radio and produced by GRAHAM gauld
Commuted Sentence
Tonight's balance sheet on the way we handle community problems deals with diabetes. It is an insidious illness which can attack a new-born child or a man in the prime of life. It was a killer disease until insulin, but now it can be lived with. provided you stick to the rules. And that is where the difficulties can begin, or be ended....
Narrator CARLETON HOBBS
Script J. S. CAMPBELL
Producer ARCHIE p. LEE
The News
The background to the news and people in the news. followed by Listening Post in which ANTONY BROWN introduces letters from today's postbag
A talk by the Chief Rabbi DR IMMANUEL JAKOBOVITS
The Land God Gave to Cain HENRY STAMPER reads the fourteenth instalment
played by NATALIA KARP (piano)
Chopin Nocturne in F sharp minor, Op 48 No 2
Chopin Mazurkas: F sharp minor, Op 6 No 1; c major, Op 56 No 2
Schubert Sonata in A minor
(D 784)
