6.32 Farming Today an East Anglian edition introduced by GORDON MOSLEY
6.50 Thought for the Week with MICHAEL MARSHALL
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 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
How I would play Jesus GERALD HARPER
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
WILFRID THOMAS introduces some stories from the BBC Sound Archives and adds some of his own
by ALISTAIR COOKE
An enquiry by JUNE ROSE
Can you talk to your Gp about personal problems? It has been estimated that half the visits that are made to doctors' surgeries may be basically about emotional rather than physical troubles. How many GPS are capable of handling them? How many have time? JUNE ROSE talks to patients and gps, and discusses what could be done to help the Gp in this increasingly important role with DR DESMOND POND , Professor of Psychiatry, Universityof London DR R. R. R. TILLEARD-COLE , Director, Oxford Institute of Psychiatry
A gp with psychiatric training Produced by RICHARD KEEN
Thoughts for Holy Week from SIR ARTHUR BRYANT , CH, CBE
Monday in Holy Week
All glory, laud, and honour (EBC HB 78): Psalm 25: John 18, vv 28-40 (NEB); Lead, kindly light (BBC HB 306)
NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE BRETT conducted by TERENCE LOVETT with THE KING'S SINGERS
Introduced by PETER BARKER
by HANS ANDERSEN : freely adapted for radio in four parts by BERTHA LONSDALE
1: Two Fragments of the Sorcerer's Looking Glass
In which we hear how the Sorcerer's magic mirror came to be smashed into a million-billion pieces, and what Kay saw through the hole he melted with a warm halfpenny in his ice-bound bedroom window.
Cast for the week:
Produced by HERBERT SMITH
by THOMAS HARDY abridged as a serial in eight parts by NAN MACDONALD read by GABRIEL WOOLF
8: The Final Renunciation
In which Festus Derriman gets his just deserts and Anne makes her choice between Bob Loveday and his brother, the trumpet-major.
Produced by JOHN CARDY
and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
for children under 5
Story: Little Grey Donkey keeps a secret by BERENICE ROBBINS
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by VILEM TAUSKY With REGINALD KILBEY (Cello)
Introduced by JON CURLE
by FRANK CLEMENTS
The man appointed mayor of a British municipal council is no longer likely to find himself enjoying much power or public adulation: but until a few years ago things were very different in what used to be the Empire. In Salisbury. Rhodesia, for instance, the mayoral chain carried with it almost king-like attributes,
by ALDOUS HUXLEY
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
All the Winners!: JACK singleTON reports on the literary competition
From Lanarkshire village to Lord High Commissioner: THE RT HON MARGARET HERBISON , MP, talks to JOHN ELLISON about the turning-points in her life
A Pick of Paperbacks: HONOR WYATT suggests some good reading
Garden Lore for April: from FRED LOADS
by WILKIE COLLINS abridged for radio in 10 episodes by NEVILLE TELLER
9: The Experiment - with RONALD HARVI as Franklin Blake and GEOFFREY BANKS as Ezra Jen nings who relate the events.
As a result of his meeting with Ezra Jennings , Blake agrees to participate in a unique and dangerous experiment.
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 BOB HOLNESS
Produced by the South-East News Unit
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
A panel game controlled(!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams. Derek Nimmo Clement Freud. Denise Coffey try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Produced by SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.25pm) (Derek Nimmo is in Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre. London)
JOHN ELLISON plays some unforgettable records This week by Layton and Johnstone Quintet of the Hot Club of France
Ruth Etling, Allan Jones
by WILLIAM HANLEY a bar-keeper
As in his play Slow Dance on the Killing Ground the Irish-American author probes man's conflicting loyalties, his fidelity to creeds and people, in love and in revolutionary politics, subjected to the pressures of race and repressive violence in a Caribbean island. Or as one of the characters formulates it in a toast: ' To " Honour." And to all those who fail to survive their enthusiasm for it.'
Adapted for radio by GUY VAESEN Produced by H. B. FORTUIN
(Irene Worth is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)
9.58 Weather
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post in which GILES PLAYFAIR introduces letters from today's postbag
No Highway by NEVIL SHUTE read by STEPHEN THORNE (6)
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (bassoon) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Telemann Sonata in F minor
Tadeusz Baird Four Preludes (1954)
Saint-Saens Sonata in G major
