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 Big Ben 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
A Book of Witnesses with DAVID KOSSOFF
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
by J. H. WILLIAMS read by MAURICE DENHAM (3)
An occasional series on aspects of child care 5: Boys and Girls - or just Children'
Are there significant differences in rates of growth - physical, emotional, intellectual - between boys and girls? If so, what does this imply for their education?
EILEEN CAPEL investigates. Produced by BARBARA CROWTHER
played by the HART HOUSE ORCHESTRA
NEM, p 33; Earth has many a noble city (BBC HB 64); Psalm 24: Mark 1, vv 16-31 (NEB): Hail to the Lord's Anointed (BBC HB 457)
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by ERIC WETHERELL with THE KING'S SINGERS
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
A new play for radio by Gerry Jones
with Richard Bebb and Miriam Margolyes
The action of the play takes place on a desolate beach on the Welsh coast some 50 years ago. A father, faced with an inescapable and terrible fact, spends a day with his young son, remembering the past, whilst seeking in the present to establish an illusive relationship with his boy.
Freddie Tait , born January 1870, carefree soldier and golfer who prepared for tournaments by midnight parades round the town playing his bagpipes. A reminiscence by S. L. MCKINLAY
Portland Place
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Portland Place, London. (Nextweek: Runcorn, Cheshire)
and programme news
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
for children under 5
Story: Pottle Pig noes to School by NANCY NORTHCOTE
With DAVID FRANKLIN including a selection from the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by KENNETH ALWYN Produced by SHEILA ANDERSON
With Respect, Sir by W. A. WESTALL
'I must tell you this, Bland. I've noticed something about the staff; they are watching you; they are circling around like vultures that have spotted a potential carcase.'
Production by ANTHONY CORNISH
(tenor)
Records of songs and ballads to mark his 80th birthday
from Guildford Cathedral
(men's voices)
Introit: I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year (Sir William Harris)
Responses (Thomas Tallis)
Psalm 97
Lessons: Isaiah 43, vv 1-13; 1 Thessalonians 5, vv 12-28 Canticles (Sumsion in G)
Anthem: from The Christmas Story (Heinrich Schutz)
As with gladness men of old (A and M Rev 79)
Kopiaste
A Sound of Trumpets by ALLAN CAMPBELL MCLEAN abridged in five parts by RAYMOND WARD read by JOHN SHEDDEN
5: The Rent Collection
' There are almost 100 marines here. A guard of police and marines at the gates. You will never get away with this.'
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 DOUGLAS CAMERON
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
with Records For You
A musical account of the life of Madame Vestris 1797-1853 Singers
PAT WHITMORE
CHARLES YOUNG with the BBC MIDLAND
LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by MARTIN GOLDSTEIN Narrators CHARLES CHILTON
HARRY LANDIS , ANN MURRAY Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
In 1919 the Government of Australia offered £10,000 for the first successful flight to Australia from Great Britain in a machine manned by Australians. This is the story of the men who won the prize. Written by ARTHUR SWINSON based on the book by NELSON EUSTIS With
Produced by HERBERT SMITH (Postponed from 11 December)
The News
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post in which LESLIE SMITH introduces letters from today's postbag
The third in a series of four talks about the prospects facing India in the coming decade.
ERIC DA COSTA, Director of the Indian Institute of Public Opinion, analyses some recent trends of Indian foreign policy and outlines some of the alternatives facing the country.
(Neville Maxwell: Thursday)
Phineas Redux by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Book 1: The Ladies Rally Round read by DAVID MARCH (13)
AGNES WALKER (piano)
Chopin Polonaise in c minor; Three écossaises
W. B. Moonie The
Linn Erik Chisholm The fair head-land; The welter of the waters Liszt Consolation No 3
Schumann - Liszt Widmung (Devotion)
