6.32 Farming Today an East Anglian edition introduced by GORDON MOSLEY
6.50 Thought for the Week Meditations for Lent on The Lord's Prayer (i) CANON ROY MCKAY
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 presented by JOHN TIMPSON and TIM MATTHEWS Thirty minutes of what Britain is getting up to this morning - and what's happening abroad
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
Ecstasy: SAM HANNA BELL
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
Britain at breakfast-time and the news around the world
8.40 Today's Papers
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Frisch Begonnen ... German for Beginners 16: Vor der
Reise Written and produced by STEPHEN KANOCZ
(A radiovision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio)
9.45 British History. Decisive Events: the Tolpuddle Case Script by JOHN RICHMOND
NEM p 44: Prayer is the soul's sincere desire (BBC HB 347); Psalm 89; Mark 10, vv 1-16 (NEB); Thine arm, 0 Lord (BBC HB 382)
Allons-y!
16: La decision de Furet Written by EMILE HARVEN
(An audio-visual programme)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous voici!
16: Le secret de Nathalie
Written by CHARLOTTE CROZET (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together
Introduced by WILLIAM APPLEBY Produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Inquiry
6: The Moral Sense
First of five programmes on Law and Order
Written and presented by ALAN FISHER
Edited by SIMON CLEMENTS
11.40 Drama Workshop
Man and the Seasons. 6: Winter into Spring. Introduced by DEREK BOWSKILL with music by the MICHAEL GARRICK TRIO
by THOMAS HARDY abridged in eight parts by NAN MACDONALD read by GABRIEL WOOLF
3: The Gathering on the Downs As Napoleon's troops mass at Boulogne, King George III reviews his army and Miller Loveday receives exciting news in a letter long delayed ... Produced by JOHN CARDY
and programme news
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Story: Pat's Umbrella by ANN ELLIOTT
Goods Traffic
3: Night-Mail to Scotland RAYMOND BAXTER reports
Series edited and produced by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK
(Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
Produced by ALBERTCHATTERLEY
2.30 What's the Way?
2: Getting information. Young people in Stoke-on-Trent and London talk about matters of common interest. (Speak)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 by GLYN HARRIS for the 9-11-year-olds
Strange things happen to men in the desert. WILFRED HARPER , who spent some time in the Sahara on a mining job, was not altogether surprised to find himself striking up a friendship with a stunted tree and a hawk
Ma's Bit o' Brass by RONALD GOW
A family magazine introduced by TIM GUDGIN and including:
1870 and All That: STUART MAC-LURE, editor of The Times Educational Supplement, answers questions about the Forster Education Act - introduced as a Bill 100 years ago tomorrow Robin Hood 's Bay: MICHAEL BUTLER visits the picturesque Yorkshire village where potash has now been discovered
String and Sealing Wax: PETER DICKINSON tells JACK SINGLETON some interesting facts about an old scientific genius from the Cavendish Laboratory which came to light while researching for his new crime novel The Seats
Grandmother Naturalist: MARY MORSE 'S own enthusiasm skipped a generation
by WILKIE COLLINS abridged for radio in 10 episodes by NEVILLE TELLER who relates the events
4: The First Victim
Sgt Cuff pursues his investigations unaware that tragedy is brewing and the Moonstone is about to claim its first victim. Produced by HERBERT SMITH
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 DEREK PARKER
A panel game controlled (!) this week by Clement Freud in which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo , Nicholas Parsons Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by SIMON BRETT (Repeated: Thursday, 12.25)
(Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre; Sheila Hancock is in ' So What About Love? ' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
JOHN ELLISON plays some unforgettable records This week by Grace Moore
Leslie A. Hutchinson (Hutch) Ray Noble , Maurice Chevalier
A play for radio by JOHN POWELL from the novel by JOHN BOWEN with Stephen Murray
Dinsdale Landen , Penelope Lee Sylvia Coleridge
John Bowen 's novel, hailed on publication five years ago as his ' most considerable novel so far,' intermingles two stories in its retelling of a myth.
The topical story is that of Gareth Payne , ' the honest man of British politics,' who resigns his office and retires to the Greek island of Lemnos. A young mp is sent there to persuade ' the Old Man ' back to England as Prime Minister. The ancient, heroic story- that of Philoctetes and Neoptolemus, is the subject of a dramatic manuscript upon which Payne is working: but the fiction becomes personal and disturbing. Cast in the manuscript:
Produced by JOHN POWELL
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post introduced by WALTER TAPLIN
by T. H. WHITE
John Munday (born 1850-died 1933): the long lifetime of one humble, insignificant man who would never fully know what a fantastic age he had lived through and contributed to in his small way. But he had seen a lot of things. And he had remembered. abridged by MOLLIE HARDWICK Read by David Davis
Produced by JOHN CARDY First of 10 instalments
I SOLISTI VENETI conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE With BONIFACIO BIANCHI (mandolin.
Vivaldi Mandolin Concerto in c major (R Op 20 No 4)
Geminiani Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 3 No 2
Vivaldi Concerto in B flat major (R Op 27 No 5) gramophone records
