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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
7.58 Ten to Eight
Lining with Machines JOHN HARGREAVES and Computers
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.11 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
4: Mr K*a*p*l*a*n's So-and-so read by Leonard Sachs
Gilbert and Sullivan
A programme compiled written and performed by Max Adrian
Produced for radio by CHARLES LEFEAUX
This is the second visit that I've made here, and the peace and quietness of the place is something that you don'experience anywhere else
The words of a visitor to a tiny village near the Norfolk coast: Walsingham. It was a famous pilgrimage centre during the Middle Ages, and the 20th century has seen a revival of pilgrimages with people flocking to the restored shrine.
This programme looks at Walsingham from a reporter's viewpoint. Speakers include the Shrine Administrator, CANON CHARLES SMITH , pilgrims, and village shopkeepers.
Compiled and introduced by TONY BLACK
Produced by MICHELL RAPER
NEM p 58: Away with gloom (BBC HB 99); Psalm 93: Luke 24, vv 30-43 (NEB); This joyful Eastertide (BBC Hi 115)
BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by ARTHUR BCTTERWORTH with EILEEN BROSTER (piano)
Introduced by JOHN WEBSTER
3: Philip Gosse
The 1914-1918 war brought many men to France. Philip Gosse found time in the trenches to pursue his interest in birds and animals. The Memoirs o/ a Camp Follower deals with the countryside of' northern France and with his experiences as a doctor in battle.
Arranged for radio by SIMONA PAKENHAM reader JOHN LINSTRUM
Produced by TREVOR HILL
A medical magazine introduced by JUNE ROSE and including:
Emotions in Pregnancy: an obstetrician and a marriage guidance counsellor discuss some common reactions of pregnant women
Specialist in the Studio: a pharmacologist answers listeners' Questions
Produced by THENA HESHEL
A panel game controlled(!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud Geraldine Jones try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITFR Produced by SIMON BRETT
and programme news
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM RARDCASTLE
Story: John and Granny by WINIFRED DAWSON
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND
ORCHESTRA conducted by BRYAN KELLY with PATRICIA MCCARRY (soprano) Introduced by ION CURLE
2: Starting out in Social Work Two trainee social workers talk about their training and their future career.
DAVID HOBMAN discusses the points raised with R C. WRIGHT , Chief Professional Adviser. Council for Training in Social Work, and MARGERY TAYLOR , Director of Training, London Boroughs Training Committee (Social Services).
Produced by ANN CALDWELL
Who Believes in Ghosts? by DAVID ELLIS
with Ballads, Songs, and Snatches gramophone records
A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including: Miss 1870: MAURICE HUSSEY , with the help of contemporary writers and music, looks at the Victorian young lady of 100 years ago: reader PENELOPE LEE The Passing of the Pit Pony: JIM BULLOCK , who began as a boy down the mine, talks to TONY VAN DEN BERGH
Final Fling: A ZENA SKINNER / ANNE CATCHPOLE concoction
Let's Hear It Again: ' Frying Tonight'—memories of a Sheffield boyhood by WILLIAM TAVLOR Your letters
of Ballantrae by R. L. STEVENSON read by BRYDEN MURDOCH 6: In the Wilderness
' After all the desperate episodes of this contention, the insults, the opposing interests. the fraternal duel in the shrubbery, it was reserved for some poor devil in Grub Street to send forth both these brothers into the wilderness, theretodie.'
Produced by GORDON EMSLIE
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
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) His life and times realised for radio by ANN SHEARER with DAVID MAHLOWE
EDYTHE FRENCH, GEOFFREY BANKS JOHN DAGLISH , DAPHNE OXENFORD MARAH STOHL , RONALD HARVI
Produced by HERBERT SMITH
BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by DONALD HUNT
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
8.36* Handel, arr llarty Suite: The Water Music
8.48* Mendelssohn Symphony No 3, in A minor (Scottish)
Introduced by OLEG KERENSKY who reviews I Sing of the Body Electric, a new collection of stories by Ray Bradbury
MAURICE EDELMAN , MP, on Napoleon's Police by Peter de Polnay - an account of the French security force which foreshadowed the Gestapo
CYNTHIA KEE reviews Home of the Gentry, a new translation by Richard Freeborn of the Russian classic by Turgenev EDWIN MULLINS on Fake' by Clifford Irving - the story of Elmyr de Hory , the greatest art forger of our time
Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
9.58 Weather
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post introduced by Giles Playfair
Letters to: Listening Post, [address removed]. For very late letters ring [number removed], and dictate your message.
Five Parliamentarians look back on their first attempt to win a seat in the House of Commons
4: Sir Stephen McAdden. HP on his campaign at Southend East in the General Election of 1950 lt.59 Weather
No Highway by NEVIL SHUTE read by STEPHEN THORNE (14)
Mozart Quartet in G minor (K478) PRO ARTE PIANO QUARTET