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 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 Ever-living Myths
A talk by DAVID BLEAKLEY †
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 presented by DEREK JONES
A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life Globe-trotter
Wendy Myers tells JACK SINGLETON about her seven-year hitch round the world and her adventures in friendship
Movement, Mime, and Music I by JAMES DODDING for the 7-9-year-olds The Mummer's Play
Produced by VERA GRAY †
NEM p 96; Glorious things of thee are spoken (BBC HB 176): Psalm 82; Mark 5, vv 21-36 (NEB); Thy kingdom come! (BBC HB 28)
Intermediate French
La Chasse au Buste (3)
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 Soft and Loud Noises by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.20 Movement and Music I by PENNY WHITTAM
The Toys: music by Debussy Produced by VERA GRAY
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.40 Contemporary History 3: McCarthy
A study of the career of the us Senator and the 'red scare' in America during the early fifties
Script by STUART EVANS
GEORGE HITCHIN talks about his grandfather, 'Old Sailor '-' he was short, barely five feet, and he seemed to have no more emotion or passion than a stick of hickory ' - and his father's upbringing in the Durham mining community
Rickmansworth FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Rickmansworth, Herts
and programme news
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
for children under 5
Story: The Odd Brown Slipper by FLORENCE POOLE
Music Workshop 2
Twm meets Deio the highway-man - to Deio's great regret. Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 Where Are They Nowt by TOM STOPPARD
Produced by DICKON REED (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Bird Song by ERIC SIMMS
What songs do birds sing and why? Can we imitate them? (Nature)
The End of the Game by TOM WRIGHT
Two men sit alone playing chess. But the game they're really playing is much more serious. One of them may be, as he says, a retired railway-man. But if he's not, then they are both playing for their lives.
Produced by GORDON EMSLIE †
sings songs by Lehar gramophone record
from Durham Cathedral Responses (Armes)
Office Hymn: Maker of earth, to thee alone
Psalms 136. 137, 138 (St Audries, S. S. Wesley)
Lessons: Genesis 9, vv 1-17; Romans 3
Canticles (Stanford in F)
Anthem: Hail gladdening light (Charles Wood)
Master of the Choristers CONRAD EDEN
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
The Valkyries Ride Again: DEREK PARKER meets producers and singers of the new production in English at the Coliseum of Wagner's opera, and talks to DAME EVA TURNER who sang in it years ago
The Happy Painter: PETER NOBLE meets MRS EMILY CHRISP , who in her 50s has become a successful artist
Fun for Fourpence: JOHN DUN -FORD describes how an old-time village concert was a highlight of his younger days
My Wee Friend Jean: SIMONA PAKENHAM recalls walks with Nanny through the graveyards of Edinburgh and a childhood companion whose parents were peculiar
Garden Lore for February: from FRED LOADS
Night Without End by ALISTAIR MACLEAN read in five parts by DENYS HAWTHORNE 3: The Threat
Snow, starvation, frostbite, Mason had his work cut out saving the crash survivors ... but now there's murder ...
Abridged and produced by DAVID A. TURNER
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 DOUGLAS CAMERON
with Records for You
Bicentenary Year
Concert
Royal Philharmonic Society Concert from the Royal Festival Hall, London
CLIFFORD CURZON (piano
PAULINE TINSLEY (soprano) ANNA REYNOLDS (contralto) RYLAND DAVIES (tenor) DONALD BELL (bass)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR conductor
John Alldis LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor BERNARD HAITINK
Part 1
Fantasia in c minor, for piano, chorus, and orchestra
by DAVID WILLIAMS
Not a train, but a child's hoop which he remembers with affection. You don'seem to see them any more.
Part 2
Symphony No 9, in D minor (Choral)
Bernard Haitink conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra later tonight in a concert on BBC1. The programme includes Mozart's Overture to Don Giovanni and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with soloist Henryk Szeryng.
The News
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post introduced by LESLIE SMITH
For either the weekday or Sunday editions, send your letters to: Listening Post, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA. For very late letters you can ring [number removed], and dictate your message.
Phineas Redux by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Book 2: Tribulation - and Trial Read by DAVID MARCH (3)
DONALD WATSON (clarinet) JOY ROGER (viola)
HAVELOCK NELSON (piano)
Mozart Trio in E flat major (K 498)
Bruch Eight Pieces, Op 83 No 1, in A minor No 7, in B major
