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, 11.0 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 JACK DE MANIO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
Belief in God made a difference DR CHRISTOPHER WOODARD
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
DAVID BRIERLEY reads the ninth instalment of the story by JOYCE STRANGER
A Religious Service
played by the EVERGREEN ORCHESTRA
Numerals by JAMES HAWTHORNE (Mathematics series)
9.55 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
NEM p 7; From all that dwell below the skies (BBC HB 5); psalm 8; St John 15, vv 1-16; Christian, unflinching stand (BBC HB 350)
Richard Wagner written by H. F. GARTEN (German for Sixth Forms)
10.50 Music Workshop 2
Follow-up: musical activities arising out of the series written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Time and Tune
Introduced by JOHN CAMBURN
Journey to the Lands of the Midnight Sun
1: The Start of the Voyage written by JOHN EDWARDS Edited and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Man: a series about the nature of man and his culture 1: Beginnings by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrator BARRY FOSTER Producer DAVID LYTTLE
11.40 Fenlands - Bedford Level by ROBIN BURTON † (Geography)
A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including:
Specialist in the Studio: an ear, nose, and throat specialist answers listeners' questions
Family Forum: a Gp and a marriage guidance counsellor discuss ways of dealing with impotence
Produced by Thena Heshel
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
(Wednesday evening's broadcast)
Today's story for children under five: Tales of Joe and Timothy: Out with the Dads by DOROTHY EDWARDS
The Price of a Bride
A play in verse by TED HUGHES based on a folk tale
Produced by SAM LANGDON (Living Language)
2.20 Poetry Corner
Some poems and a song
Minor Musical Miracles, for combs, cardboard, paper, and pins
(From the BBC Sound Archives)
Finding Out About Yourself arranged and introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
Produced by RITA UDALL
(Looking Ahead: The World of Work)
We all complain that money is short, yet millions of us are throwing it away by not claiming welfare benefits. We think they're only for the very poor, whereas a man can earn £ 20 a week or even more and still be entitled to rent and rate rebates (worth perhaps £1 a week), free medicines, milk, and school meals
Introduced by BRIAN REDHEAD Written and produced by JIM WALKER
Disaster Point by D. M. OAKES with Pauline Letts as Kathryn Gray who returns to England to dispose of a house and a boat she has inherited from an aunt she hardly knew
Produced by GLYN DEARMAN
The Gielguds and the Terrys DEREK PARKER examines the contribution made to the stage by one of the most famous and long-running theatrical dynasties with the recorded voices of EDWARD GORDON CRAIG
BEATRICE FORBES-ROBERTSON
SIR JOHN GIELGUD
MARGARET HALSTAN
JULIA NEILSON
PHYLLIS NEILSON-TERRY
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER
DAME ELLEN TERRY
Produced by DENYS GUEROULT (A BBC World Service production)
A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including: ' That Untravelled World
ERIC SHIPTON , mountaineer and explorer, talks to JEANINE MCMULLEN about his recent autobiography
Ninety days to Christmas: ZENA SKINNER suggests a Christmas cake recipe and finds out about the dried fruit that goes into it
A Bay Called Godwit: another newsletter from JAMES MCNEISH in New Zealand
Your letters
Quentin Durward by SIR WALTER SCOTT abridged for radio in eight parts read by BRYDEN MURDOCH
2: The envoy from Burgundy ' Settle in your mind whether you choose to join the Scottish Archers or be hanged; for I promise you that I see no other chance of your escaping the gallows '
Produced by GORDON EMSLIE †
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 MERYL O'KEEFFE
'I was born when I was two. I was called Gerard after a cousin, and Hoffnung after Gerard'
Michael Flanders introduces a programme marking the tenth anniversary of the death of the artist, musician, and raconteur with contributions from
MALCOLM ARNOLD , T. E. BEAN
JAMES BOSWELL , GEORGE ENGLE HOWARD FERGUSON
ANNETTA HOFFNUNG
JOSEPH HOROVITZ , VERA LACHMANN WILLIAM MANN , MORAG MORRIS GERALD PRIESTLAND
SAM WANAMAKER and liberally sprinkled with Hoffnung himself, some of which is broadcast for the first time
Compiled by IAN HORSBRUGH
Produced by ROBERT CRADOCK † Timeless Hoffnung: page 9
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BACON conductor JOHN CAREWE
Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3, in A minor (Scottish)
Introduced by KENNETH ALLSOP who reviews As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
EDWARD BLISHEN on a new anthology Stories from Old-Fashioned Children's Books
LILLIAN GISH discusses the autobiography of her , early years in Hollywood The Movies, Mr Griffith , and Me
PAT WILLIAMS on The Conquistadors by Hammond Innes and other new books
Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
The News
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post in which JOHN ANTHONY introduces letters from today's postbag
Three talks by BRIAN MEREDITH 2: Everyone needs someone to love
Canada is bidding for a unique position as the champion and friend of the Third World and peacemaker to everybody, discreetly withdrawing from European commitments, and making overtures in Latin America, the Caribbean, francophone Africa, Japan and even China
The Day They Kidnapped Queen Victoria by H. K. FLEMING TONY BRITTON reads the ninth instalment
CLARENCE MYERSCOUGH (violin) LIONEL SALTER (piano) Delius Sonata No 3
Hindemith Sonata No 3. in E
