6.32 Farming Today market trends, news, weather
6.50 Ten to Seven
6.55 Weather; programme news
GTS 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 11.0 am Today's Time
1.0, 6.0, 11.0 pm Big Ben 10.0 pm
7.11 South-East News
7.15 Today presented by JACK DE MANIO
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
DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE reading from the Old Testament section of the New English Bible
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
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
BBC Correspondents talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
Religious Service
All glory, laud, and honour (sp 135: St Theodulph)
Story: Preparation for Easter The Prayer of St
Richard Hills of the North, rejoice (sp 64: Little Cornard)
(Repeated: Thursday 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Over to You. Postbag
Compiled by CHRISTINE DUDLEY
St Patrick
NEM 33; 0 sacred head, sore wounded; (BBC HB 86); Psalm 20; John 16, vv 22-33; Come, let us join our cheerful songs (BBC HB 122)
Marsh; 20: Summer Holidays Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10 45 Nachrichten und Neuigkeiten. (Intermediate German)
11.0 The Bluebird Line a radio extravaganza by PAUL JENNINGS and NEIL BUTTERWORTH with additional music and dialogue by WILLIAM MURPHY BBC TRAINING ORCHESTRA A FESTIVAL CHOIR of Bristol children Members of the BBC Schools Repertory conducted by MICHAEL ROSE
Produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.30 The Jar of Rice by MARGERY MORRIS
A folk story from India (Hello! Hello!)
11.40 India: a dialogue on some contemporary religious developments by NINIAN SMART , Professor of Religious Studies, University of Lancaster Produced by RALPH ROLLS
(Shortened edition of Sunday's broadcast: Radio 2)
from the TV series based on the characters created by A.J.Cronin with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron Barbara Mullen as Janet Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay
Without the City: written by Doreen Montgomery and Guy Morgan: adapted for radio by Pat Dunlop.
(For cast see Thursday, 7.0 pm)
and programme news
The News and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Story: Willie Mouse and Mr Martin by ALISON JEZARD
Harriet Tubman , Moses of the Slates. Written by LESLIE READE (World History)
2.21 Music Session One Folk Around the World
Script by CATHERINE BAXTER
Produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
2.40 lvrea - Typewriter Town by ALEX HUNTER (Geography)
by JANE AUSTEN : part 11
Last year. after visiting the country, SYLVIE NICKELS compiled a portrait of the City of Jerusalem which was broadcast just before Christmas.
With the approach of Easter she draws again on personal impressions and recordings made at the time, together with material from the BBC Sound Archives, to describe some wider aspects of Israel, ancient and modern.
Produced by ROY WILLIAMSON
Gramophone records of the celebrated soprano introduced by JOHN AMIS
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including: A Man of Many Voices: CAVALIERE ROBERT RIETTY , who has 'matched in for over 50 leading foreign stars and dubbed historic characters, tells CORAL HADDON how he does it. (He stars in Afternoon Theatre tomorrow) A Dream Come True: JEANINE MCMULLEN looks at a London fashion collection based on 18th-century shepherds', grave-diggers', and craftsmen's smocks, and talks to the designer and the Sussex smockers who make them
Food from the Sea: one possible answer to the world food shortage investigated by NEVILLE HARMS
Your letters
Travellers in Africa
3: The Smoke that Thunders Compiled by DAVID LYTTON
An account of LIVINGSTONE'S attempt to survey the course of the Zambezi river in 1885. Reader HENRY STAMPER
Produced by R. D. 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 TIM GVDGIN
by Leo Tolstoy
Adapted by Val Gielgud
A dramatisation in 20 episodes from the translation by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude, edited by Michael Bakewell
with David Buck, Stephen Murray, Martin Jarvis, Christopher Guinee, Felix Felton and Denys Hawthorne as Tolstoy
Cast in order of speaking:
BBC SCOTTISH
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN † Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3
Bizet Symphony in c major
Dvorak Slavonic Rhapsody No 3. in A flat major
Hobt Ballet Music: The Perfect Fool
The Monarchy - do we need one?
Introduced by GEORGE scott
Other countries have presidents, dictators, juntas. We-and a handful of other countries - retain a monarchy. Tonight's Report looks at the advantages and disadvantages of our own monarchy - and at the alternatives.
Produced by MICHELL RAPER
9.58 Weather
The News
The background to the news and people in the news. followed by Listening Post in which GILES PLAYFAIR introduces letters from today's postbag For either the weekday or Sunday editions, write to: Listening Post, BBC, Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA. For very late letters you can ring [number removed], and dictate your message.
10.59 Weather
No Highway by NEVIL SHUTE read by STEPHEN THORNE (2)
Sequence
MARGARET PRICE (soprano) JAMES LOCKHART (piano) PORTIA ENSEMBLE
