6.27 Farming Today
S.45 Thought for the Day
6.50 Weather; programme news
6.55 South-East News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.5* Weather; programme news
7.55 South-East News
8.0 The News and more of Today
8.40 Today's Papers
(Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast)
3: The Best Years of Your Lifer Were your schooldays enjoyable? What do you consider a school is really for?
LESLIE SMITH talks to parents, teachers, and others involved in education.
Produced by BARBARA CROWTHER
Feast of the Annunciation
NEM p 76; Virgin-born, we bow before thee (BBC HB 240); Psalm 67; Luke 1, vv 26-38; The God whom earth and sea and sky (BBC HB 239)
presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest HELEN MCARTHUR and the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conducted by IAIN SUTHERLAND Produced by EDDIE FRASER
by Thomas Hardy: adapted for radio by Aileen Mills, is the second of five morning plays from round and about Britain
Farmer Lodge has brought a new young bride home but what of his cast-off mistress, Rhoda Brook? And how will she seek her revenge?
WALTER TAPLIN introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues.
Please write to: Listening Post, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA. Or telephone [number removed]
Written and adapted by Pat Dunlop
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
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
for children under 5
Story: Feeding the Ducklings by DENYS MATTHEWS
with the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE BRETT conducted by BRYAN KELLY philip challis (piano)
Produced by ALAN OWEN
by CHARLES DICKENS adapted in 12 parts by GILES COOPER
1: The Parish Orphan
Relating the circumstances of Oliver's birth and his subsequent apprenticeship to the calling of Undertaker.
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL (Repeated: Friday, 7.30 pm)
by BERKELY MATHER with Edward de Souza 1: Magic Carpet George
Acting Major George Pawson had been shipped off to India on his wedding day in 1939. Four years later he was still there - and Patty his wife was waiting for the honeymoon the war seemed to have put off indefinitely!
'Homesick for a Story ' from The Heart of the Hunter by LAURENS VAN DER POST: compiled and read by DAVID LYTTON Produced by R. D. SMITH
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening
Including the latest news, the evening press, what's on tonight, the City, and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5.50 Weather; programme news
5.55 South-East News
ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair
Produced by BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
with Gerald Priestland and Meryl O'Keeffe
World news and views
by Leo Tolstoy
A dramatisation in 20 parts from the translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude
Adapted by Constance Cox
Edited by Michael Bakewell
With David Buck, Martin Jarvis, Felix Felton
and Denys Hawthorne as Tolstoy
(Repeated: Sunday, 2.30 pm)
The Character, Life, Opinions and Old Age, of a great Painter Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) based on the book by JEAN RENOIR : translated by RANDOLF and DOROTHY WEAVER adapted for radio and produced by TERENCE TILLER
The Rt Hon Denis Healey, MBE, MP, Secretary of State for Defence, in conversation with Laurence W. Martin, Professor of War Studies, King's College, London, about issues arising from the nuclear defence of Western Europe.
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Northanger Abbey by JANE AUSTEN
Read by Dorothy Tutin (2)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
