8.32 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 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
Living with Machines
JOE PATrON on the Farm
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
by Leonard Q. Ross
Read by Leonard Sachs
Forty minutes of Folly in celebration of April Fools' Day
Compiled and produced by TERENCE TILLER with JAN EDWARDS , GRIZELDA HERVEY PRUNELLA SCALES , KERRY FRANCIS JOHN GABRIEL. NIGEL LAMBERT
(Prunella Scales is in ' It's a 2ft 6in World ' at Wyndham's Theatre, London)
NEM p 54; Alleluia, alleluia! <BBC HB 98); Psalm 25, vv 1-10; Luke 24, vv 13-31 (NEB); The day of Resurrection (BBChb 112)
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by KENNETH ALWYN with TOMMY REILLY (harmonica) Introduced by JOHN WEBSTER
2: Louisa M. Alcott
In 1870 the author of Little Women took a journey through Europe, reaching the safety of Switzerland in time to escape the Franco-Prussian War. She turned the experience into a novel entitled Shawl-Straps. From this are taken the readings. Arrangde by SIMONA PAKENHAM reader SARAH BRACKETT
Produced by TREVOR HILL
Most of us can never aspire to the ownership of a race-horse - and neither did FRANK CLEMENTS , until a disappointed owner, in a moment of frustration, offered him the horse Imbongi as a free gift. The moments of frustration, it turned out, formed part of the gift.
Buckler's Hard
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Buckler's Hard, Hants
and programme news
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
for children under 5
Story: How Mary's Garden Grew by FLORENCE POOLE: part 2
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by KENNETH ALWYN with PATRICIA MCCARRY (soprano) Introduced by JON CURLE
by W. Somerset Maugham, adapted for radio by Val Geilgud
The scene: A sanatorium for tuberculosis somewhere in the North of Scotland. The time: 1916-17
with Carleton Hobbs as Somerset Maugham (Ashenden)
followed by an interlude
from Leicester Cathedral
Introit: This joyful Eastertide (Charles Wood)
Responses (Morley)
Psalms 6, 7, 8 (Edwards, Barn-by, Flintoft, Gray)
Lessons: Solomon's Song 2, vv 8-17; 1 Peter 1, vv 13-25 Canticles (Stanford in C)
Anthem: When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion (Adrian Batten )
Master of the Music
PETER WHITE
Assistant Organist ROBERT PRIME
A family magazine introduced by POLLY ELWEs and including: An April Anthology: arranged by ROSEMARY HART and JACK SINGLETON
Vintage Toys: REX BELL collects model trains, cars and planes worth thousands of pounds. He tells MICHAEL GILLIAM about the growing popularity of toy nostalgia
Explorer Underwater: LEY KENYON, deep sea diver, photographer and excavator, talks to ANNE SUTER about his work School Inspectors in the 90s: some Victorian memories by W. A. HUDSON
by DANE CHANDOS
7: Abbie on Armistice Day
Lady Abbott-Acland's unflagging collection for poppy day brings this series to a close.
Adapted and produced by GUY VAESEN
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
with Records for You
A romantic opera in three acts
(concert performance)
A Royal Philharmonic Society Concert from the Royal Festival Hall, London
BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD Act 1
TONY ASPLER visited Israel a week after the Six Day War and spent five months there living on a kibbutz and broadcasting a weekly programme from Jerusalem.
Recently . he paid a second visit to Israel, and saw great changes in the mood and life-style of both Jews and Arabs.
Act 2. 9.17* Act 3
9.5* 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
Five Parliamentarians look back on their first attempt to win a seat in the House of Commons
Maurice Edelman, MP on his campaign at Coventry West in the General Election of 1945
10.59 Weather
No Highway by NEVIL SHUTE
Read by STEPHEN THORNE (13)
Dussek Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 61 (Elégie harmonique) Ravel Sonatine
MICHAEL STRIDE (piano)
