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 MANlO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.59 Ten to Eight
Four Days that Changed the World
Readings from The Living New Testament by Gerald Harper
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
The weekly series reflecting wildlife and its position in today's ever-changing world
A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life
The Master Mariner
Captain Percy Cooper
Down there, in those extreme southern latitudes, the huge waves roll all the way round the world - there's nothing to stop them! That's why Cape Horn has such a terrible reputation.
Movement, Mime, and Music 1 by JAMES DODDING : a new series for the 7-9-year-olds. The whole story of Aladdin worked out in movement.
Produced by VERA GRAY
NEM p 99; Awake, our souls (BBC HB 300); Psalm 91, vv 1-13; Isaiah 40, vv 18-31; Ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 372)
Intermediate French 10: Le retour
Also JAN ROSOL singing with his guitar
Written by EMILE HARVEN
10.45 Foreign Correspondent
A BBC Correspondent talks on a topic of interest and importance in the immediate past, present, or future
11.0 Keeping the body clean by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.20 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
Music selected and arranged by VERA GRAY
(Repeated: Thursday,9.55 am)
11.40 Contemporary History
10: Berlin. The Berlin crisis of 1948, and its significance in the Cold War
Compiled by ROBERT REID
ALAN HUGHES , a designer of with-it way-out clothes, not least of all clothes worn by 'Emma Peel,' talks to JAMES LAVER , the historian and interpreter of fashion, about what design is supposed to do for its wearer
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Herefordshire
and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLl
(Tuesday evening's broadcast)
for children under 5
Story: Bertha meets a Seagull and an Island by LIANE SMITH
December Fair
A Tudor fantasy for schools radio by MICHAEL JESSETT and DAVID GRENVILLE
Produced by WILLIAM MURPHY (Music Workshop 2)
2.29 Your Own Work
A programme of writing by listeners to the series
Produced by STUART EVANS (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Holly, Ivy, and Mistletoe by JOHN WYATT (Nature)
by KON FRASER
' I ought to start knitting, but I'll only make the white wool black. I know ... I won'use wool ... I'll use words.... a shawl of words....'
With GEOFFREY COLLINS and CLIFFORD NORGATE
Produced by MARGARET ETALL
from the Scottish Episcopal Cathedral Church of St Mary, Edinburgh. Provost
THE VERY REV P. C. RODGER
Responses (William Byrd )
Psalm 18, Revised Psalter (Clark, S. S. Wesley , Marchant, Pring)
Lessons: Isaiah 10, v 33, to 11, v 9; Philippians 2, vv 1-11
The eternal gifts of Christ the King (Hymnal for Scotland 175) Canticles (Stanford in A)
Anthem: Sing joyfully (Byrd)
Organist and Master of the Choristers DENNIS TOWNHlLL Assistant Organist RICHARD WALKER
A family magazine introduced by TIM GUDGIN and including:
'Not Hell but Purgatory': ROBERT GRAVES recalls the First World War in conversation with DEREK PARKER
The Singing Nuns: KEN SYKORA visits St Philomena 's convent to meet some of the Daughters of the Cross, who have formed themselves into a group
First Air Passenger to Australia - 2: 'CHUBBIE' MILLER continues her conversation With JACK SINGLETON
The Pawnshop with a Heart: a Mexican memory from GERTrude HARTSILVER
The book by GEOFFREY MORGAN adapted as a serial reading in five parts by the author read by RICHARD HURNDALL 5: Bright Prospect
Joe seemed no nearer to achieving his ambition of returning to the country. The news of Nina's accident in Budapest jolted him out of his introspective mood. He wanted to help, and so went to Sir Vincent Craig , who arranged for Nina to be brought to a hospital in England.
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
and programme news
Tonight's evening paper of the air with reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard - Sportsdesk - Stop Press: introduced by BOB HOLNESS
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Handel: Messiah
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (Soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) RYLAND DAVIES (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
BBC chorus; BBC CHORAL SOCIETY PHILIP JONES (trumpet) Continuo
CHARLES SPINKS (organ)
JOHN CONSTABLE (harpsichord) ALAN DALZIEL (Cello)
GERALD BRINNEN (double-bass) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conductor COLIN DAVIS from the Royal Festival Hall Part 1
(Colin Davis 's first ' Messiah page 9)
Kenneth ROSE describes George Nathaniel Curzon 's journey up the Nile in 1883, which he recently retraced while writing a book on Curzon's early life
Parts 2 and 3
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post in which WALTER TAPLIN introduces letters from today's postbag. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
The King Must Die by MARY RENAULT read by ALAN BADEL (8)
WENDY BERRY (flute) GABRIELLE HAY (Oboe) MARTIN WILSON (horn)
HAVELOCK NELSON (piano)
Faur6 Fantaisie for flute and piano
Poulenc Elégie for horn and piano
Debussy Syrinx, for flute
Poulenc Sonata for oboe and piano
