6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer 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 anvwhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio and 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 (17) 1
BBC Correspondents talk about the news. its background, and the people who make it
(Revised edition of Saturdays broadcast)
presents a personal choice of prose and verse which has influenced his life and his writing: before an audience at Trinity College, Dublin. Reader RAY MCANALLY
Produced by JOHN BOYD ‡
NEM p 54; Thy mercy. Lord, is in the heavens (BBC HB 482); Psalm 107, vv 31-42; Matthew 14 v 34, to 15, v 9 (Rsv); Lord of all hopefulness (BBC HB 309)
presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing
with his guest ANN BAIRD
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by EDDIE FRASER
by NOEL BARBER
The fall and rise again of Singapore
Read by NIGEL GRAHAM
2: The Days of Inaction
Top-level bickering delays the provision of shore defences to protect the people of Singapore against the coming Japanese attack from the mainland.
LESLIE SMITH introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues Please write to: Listening Post, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA IAA. Or telephone ([number removed]
by Henry Cecil adapted for radio by David Climie from the TV series by Richard Waring
starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby
Richard Waring as Henry Blagrove
John Glyn-Jones as Grimes
Ann Davies as Sally Mannering
This week's guest stars: James Hayter as Tewkesbury and Geoffrey Sumner as the Magistrate
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Miranda at the Zoo by CHRISTINE MADIN †
with the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA led by PETER GIBBS conductor KENNETH ALWYN PHILIP CHALLIS (piano)
by D. L. MURRAY adapted for radio in 10 parts by THEA HOLME
Joe Melia as Sam Rubens Deborah Dallas as Josie Sam has now moved into the world of racing and even here his luck with money is incredible, though others lose their shirts. But his luck with women - particularly Josie - is more debatable..... 8: Glorious Goodwood
Produced by BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)
from the novel
A Beauty for Inspector West by JOHN CREASEY dramatised as a serial in seven parts by MAURICE TRAVERS Patrick Allen as Chief Inspector Roger West
Sarah Lawson as his wife Janet The chase is on. Osborn has kidnapped Gina and West fears for her life.
6: Fire in the Night
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recalls some of the places visited and some of the questions asked during the past year With FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS . ALAN GEMMELL Produced by KENNETH FORD
Daughters of the Sun by OBI EGBUNA
Read by Ray Smith
The story, based on Ebu legend, is one of a number of short stories by this Nigerian writer to be published in the autumn.
Produced by JANE GRAHAM
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
from Leas Cliff Hall , Folkestone
ANONA WINN . JOY ADAMSON
NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair Produced by BOBBY JAYE †
John Hosken presenting world news and views
starring Richard Murdoch and John Laurie with Norma Ronald, Joan Sanderson
During Mr Lennox-Brown's absence on annual leave, a Scotsman, Mr Dougal, takes charge of the Department (and Lamb).
The Journals of a Young Victorian 1873-1882 by LAURA TROUBRIDGE
Edited and introduced by her daughter
JAQUELINE HOPE-NICHOLSON
The programme compiled, written, and narrated by THEA HOLME with Lynn Redgrave as Laura Troubridge
' I, Laura Troubridge , am 15 years old when I begin this journal. I have for two years kept a short diary, but that is rather dull, as one cannot write what one thinks of things unless it is private. So this is going to be thoroughly private.'
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
(Shortened version: Wednesday, 9.35 am)
John Coast, who as a prisoner of the Japanese worked on the Burma Railway, returned not long ago to the bridge over the River Kwai and recorded for BBC2 a programme which included interviews with several of his gaolers.
The programme produced by ANTHONY DE LOTBINIERE adapted for radio by PATRICK HARVEY
Dr Goldmann is President of the World Jewish Congress and has long been an unofficial diplomatic spokesman for World Jewry.
He talks about his long and distinguished career (and his close contacts with people like Chaim Weizmann. Konrad Adenauer , and David Ben -Gurion) to DANIEL SNOWMAN
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A series of five enquiries by DAVID SMEETON of the BBC and REX KEATING Of UNESCO into the nature of learning and the educational changes likely to transform the pattern of life towards the end of the century,
2: The Pre-School Years
Waiting /or Willa by DOROTHY EDEN
Read by DIANA OLSSON (7)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
