6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50 Weather; programme news
6.55 South-East News
The News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by John Timpson
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Weather: programme news
7.55 South-East News
and more of Today
8.40 Today's Papers
by EVELYN WAUGH
Read by HUGH BURDEN (3) ʇ
A Penny for an Urchin
This programme looks at the hedgehog.
The four members of the British midget submarine XE-3 relive their arduous experiences during an unprecedented attack on the Japanese heavy cruiser Takao in Singapore Harbour 25 years ago. The Crew:
LT IAN FRASER
SUB-LT W. J. L. SMITH
LEADING SEAMAN JAMES MAGENNIS
ENGINE-ROOM ARTIFICER
CHARLES REED
Sound effects for this programme were recorded with the assistance of the Royal Navy at HMS Dolphin, Gosport. Narrated and produced by COLIN REID
(BBC Sound Archive recordings)
NEM page 99; Awake, our souls (BBC HB 300); Psalm91, vv 1-13; Matthew 10. vv 1-16 (rsv); Through the night of doubt and sorrow (BBC HB 186)
-with PEARL FAWCETT (accordion) and orchestral recordings made available by courtesy of German Radio
Introduced by PETER BARKER
Two's Company by JILL BROOKE
Third of five morning plays about loneliness
Two suburban housewives, Mavis and Rose, find they have much in common. Prunella Scales as Rose Pat Coombs as Mavis GRAHAM ASHLEY as James
Produced by GLYN DEARMAN
Swaffham
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the Swaffham district of Norfolk
Produced bv RICHARD BURWOOD
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
12.55 Weather; programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Bertha the Tanker Ship gets into trouble by LIANE SMITH
with the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL MOORES and NIGEL COXE (piano)
Produced by ALAN OWEN f
A Cargo of Rice bv ARTHUR SWINSON
The Eastern Pride, an elderly vessel, is homeward bound across the Bay of Bengal with a caTgo of rice when she runs unexpectedly into bad weather....
Principal characters:
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
A monthly programme reflecting life in the country with a natural history contribution by ERIC SIMMS
Introduced by c. GORDON GLOVER Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS
by H. F. ELLIS
Mr Wentworth is called from a contented but eventful retirement back to Burgrove Preparatory School
5: A breath of fresh air abridged and read by NOEL ILIFF
Produced by MARGARET ETALL
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 Derek Cooper
5.50 Weather; programme news
5.55 South-East News
Jimmy Clitheroe in Once More into the Vicaraqe
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
Come on then, astonish me! by ANDREW DAVIES
Another play in which the indomitable Steph Smith meets the world head-on and finds it wanting. with With RICHARD DENNING
GEORGE WOOLLEY , SHEILA WILTSHIRE PENELOPE PROTHEROE , CAROL VALE Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
With ROBERT ROBINSON
THE RT HON ANTHONY NUTTING reviews Humphrey Trevelyan 's personal account of The Middle East in Revolution
DESMOND DUPRÉ on a study of the Elizabethan poet, composer, and physician Thomas Campion
JULIAN MITCHELL on Cod's Englishman, Christopher Hill 's biography of Oliver Cromwell J. K. L. ANDERSON talks about The Ulysses Factor, his study of the exploring instinct in man and other new books
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON (Repeated: Thursday, 3.45 pm)
1879-1970
A radio portrait in which aspects of the author's personality and work are considered by his friends
Speakers BENJAMIN BRITTEN WILLIAM PLOMER
SIR DENNIS PROCTOR
PROFESSOR W. J. H. SPROTT and PATRICK WILKINSON together with the recorded voices of the late
J. R. ACKERLEY and LEONARD WOOLF Compiled and narrated by FREDERICK LAWS
Produced by ROBERT POCOCK
8.58 Weather
The News
David Holden reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
BRIAN MEREDITH examines achievements in international co-operation by the UN and some of its agencies.
3: The Sea and the Sea Bottom
The Shepherd File by CONRAD VOSS BARK
Read by ]RICHARD BEBB (8)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
