6.32 Farming Today an East Anglian edition introduced by CORDON MOSLEY
6.50 Thought for the Week It's All a Rush by DAVID BENTLEY
6.55 Weather; programme news
Today's Time GTS 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 am 1.0. 6.0. 11.0 pm Big Ben 10.0 pm
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
The Hell and Heaven of Family Life by MARY MCKAY
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Todays Papers
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion
by ALI.STAIR COOKE
(Revised version of Sunday's broadcast)
ROBERT STANNAGE takes you on the second part of a 3,500-mile journey he made a few weeks ago on the ss Arcadia 2: The Atlantic Islands
Produced by HAROLD ROGERS
NEM p 64; Rejoice, 0 land (BBC HB 433); Psalm 112; Isaiah 55, vv 1-11; Lo! he comes (BBC HB 35)
ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE BRETT conducted by KENNETH ALWYN With JAKE THACKRAY Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
by CHARLOTTE BRONTE abridged in 10 instalments reader BILLIE WHITELAW
6: Gateshead Again
Kenneth More reads the book by SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER abridged in six parts by TERENCE LONGDON
5: To the Horn
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Moira Anderson, singing star.
With Roy Plomley
and programme news
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
for children under 5
Stories of Jeremy and Flash: Christmas cards and a letter to Santa by WINIFRED DORAN
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor MARCUS DODS
RADIO ORCHESTRA OF BADEN-BADEN conducted by EMMERICH SMOLA
by CHARLES ALLEN
' While other Asians on the Indian sub-continent stare and stare, until you feel like a goldfish in a bowl, the Newaris ignore foreigners, in much the same way as they ignore dirt and other unpalatable facts.'
Charles Allen went on Voluntary Service Overseas to Nepal. It took him some time to understand the Newars' way of life
Private Lives by Noel Coward
with Moira Lister and Edward de Souza
followed by an interlude
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including
Gentleman Historian: SIR ARTHUR BRYANT talks to JOHN ELLISON about the turning-points in his life
It's a Headache! : PAUL VAUGHAN visits the new centre for research into migraine
A last look at the Grand Old Man: ELLA SARAH WEBSTER recalls W. E. Gladstone 's ' lying in state ' at Hawarden Castle
' Fred's Primer EDWIN BROCK talks to LEIGH CRUTCHLEY about his new book of unusual verse
The Wooden Horse
The famous wartime escape story by ERIC Williams abridged for radio in 10 instalments bv NAN MACDONALD Reader JOHN BENNETT
10: The Danish Resistance
Peter and John, now under the wing of the Danish Resistance Movement, learn first that the leader has been captured, and then that Sigmund. their guide, has been rumbled by the Jerries who are waiting to arrest him as soon as they land at Copenhagen. For the first time since their escape from the prison camp they find it necessary - much against their will - to use violence! Produced by TREVOR HILL
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
Produced by the South-East News Unit
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo Clement Freud. Moira Lister try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by DAVID HATCH
(Pre-recorded at The Paris, Lower Regent Street, London. SW1. Rptd Thursday. 12.25 pm) (Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi, London)
introduced by Jack Brymer played by the BBC SCOTTISH
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader, TOM ROWLETTE conducted by SEBASTIAN FORBES including:
Wagner Overture:
Rienzi Tchaikovsky Movements from Serenade for string orchestra Dvorak Slavonic Dances Nos 2 and 3
The first performance in this country of the play by LAWRENCE DURRELL adapted for radio by MARGARET ETALL and JOHN POWELL with music by DAVID CAIN starring Barbara Jefford with Timothy West , Prunella Scales David March, Michael Deacon
The action of the play takes place in Scythia and Italy in the middle of the first centurv ad. Lawrence Durrell 's play mixes history and legend in both the characters and the events. Against a romantic background. it compares reality and illusion - Life and Art, the act and the wish.
' There is an obscure connection between the act and the wish which needs care in handling; one can damage oneself, one can give the whole world blood poisoning.'
Cast in order of speaking:
Music and special sound recorded in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by JOHN POWELL
The News
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post in which ANTHONY BROWN introduces letters from today's postbag
The King Must Die by MARY RENAULT
ALAN BADEL reads the sixteenth of 20 instalments
Joseph Martin Kraus Symphony in c minor
ANGELICUM ORCHESTRA OF MILAN conducted by NEWELL JENKINS gramophone record
