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 introduced by JACK DE MANIO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight Heroes
Talk by RONALD FAULKNER
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
read by JILL BALCON (6)
(Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast)
Just before her death last February Baroness Asquith recorded a programme for BBC2. Better known, perhaps, as Lady Violet Bonham Carter , she talked with GEORGE RYLANDS about the poetry and prose that had helped to form her life. Produced for TV by JOHN FURNESS Edited for radio by PATRICK HARVEY
NEM p 4; 0 Christ, Redeemer of our race <BBC HB 54); He smiles within his cradle (Oxford Book of Carols 84); Luke 1, vv 57-66, 80, and 2, vv 1-7; God from on high (BBC HB 49)
presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest MARION GRIMALDI BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by EDDIE FRASER
(Marion Grimaldi is in ' Cinderella ' at the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth)
from Wood Hall Pastoral and Ecumenical Centre, near Wetherby, Yorks
Celebrant and Preacher MGR MICHAEL BUCKLEY
Readings: Isaiah 9, vv 1-7 (Jerusalem Bible); Titus 3, vv 4-7; Luke 2, vv 15-20
Choirmistress SISTER CONSTANCE Action of the Mass described by FR JOHN STAPLETON
Songs from the musicals and the music-hall, and stories of Old Sam and The Rams-bottoms: on records
and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Story: The Christmas Robins by RUTH AINSWORTH
from STEVE RACE including a selection from the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEOFFREY BRAND Produced by DAVID ALLAN
12: The Last Chance
A monthly programme reflecting life in the country with a Natural History contribution by ERIC SIMMS Introduced by C. GORDON GLOVER
Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS
with his choice of records
A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including
Learning through the Letter-box: Wolsey Hall has just celebrated its 75th anniversary as a correspondence college, CORAL HADDON visited Oxford and met some of the people who are involved in teaching by post Straight, Curved, and Serpentine: ALFRED H. DUNHILL talks to DENNIS LOWER about the history of tobacco pipes and smoking 4 Anything for me, miss? ': ELIZABETH STEVENSON is reminded of when she was a wartime seasonal postman in North Wales
Sugar Mouse or Glass Bauble?: RONALD DAVIS wonders how far a childhood choice from the Christmas tree moulded his character
A series of stories about children chosen and abridged by GUY CULLINGFORD
The Truthful Witness by ELIZABETH FERRARS
Read by ELIZABETH PROUD
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 MICHAEL MEECH
on behalf of the Labour Party
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
by Leo Tolstoy
A dramatisation in 20 parts from the translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude edited by Michael Bakewell
Executive producer Ronald Mason
with David Buck. Kate Binchy, Martin Jarvis, Anna Cropper, Christopher Guinee, Jeremy Clyde and
'What is War and Peace? It is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less an historical chronicle. War and Peace is what the author wished and was able to express in the form in which it is expressed.'
Part 1: St Petersburg, 1805
Adapted by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
Directed by RONALD MASON
(Jeremy Clyde is in 'Conduct Unbecoming' at the Queen's Theatre; Christopher Guinee in 'The Magistrate' at the Cambridge Theatre; Martin Jarvis in 'The Bandwagon' at the Mermaid Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Sunday, 2.30 pm)
(Full page feature in next week's Radio Times)
ELAINE SKORODIN (violin) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BACON conductor JOHN CAREWE
Mozart Overture: The Magic Flute
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1, in G minor
Schumann Symphony No 1, in B flat major (Spring)
but are teachers being adequately trained for the job?
An enquiry into Colleges of Education by PATRICK NUTTGENS , Director of the Leeds Polytechnic, with additional research by TONY VAN DEN BERGH
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post in which ANTHONY BROWN introduces letters from today's postbag
by FRANK CLEMENTS
An increasing number of people in their vigorous fifties are being forced into early retirement, often by employers' obsession with the ' vitality ' of youth Deprived, very often,.of the traditional solaces - children, gardening, religion, the respect of the young - how do they cope with the 15 or 20 years left to them
Phineas Redux by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Book 1: The Ladies Rally Round read by DAVID MARCH (7)
DAPHNE GODSON (violin)
AUDREY INNES (piano)
Grieg Sonata No 3, in c minor, Op 45
