6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio and John Timpson
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
and more of Today
VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
'Written and read by Darrell Bates
1: Crabs and Goats
Would you mind,' Susie asked the hotel-keeper, ' if we kept this goat in our room? It is only a little one, and has lost its mother ... '
Produced by JOHN CARDY
(First of five instalments)
Zena Skinner , Gordon Clyde Vivian Stanshall and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Produced by RICHARD GILBERT
Easter Monday
NEM p 29; The strife is o'er (BBC HB 114); Canticle 8; Mark 15 v 40 to 16, v 8 (NEB); Jesus lives! (BBC HB 106)
Ten years after his death George Formby is heard singing some of the songs which made him one of the great entertainers, and he is remembered as an artist and as a person by THORA HIRD , who got her first break in films through him
REG DIXON , Formby's successor in Zip Goes a Million
EDDIE LATTA , composer of many Formby hits
TOM BLACKELEY , producer of George's first film
BILL LOGAN and JOHN WALLEY Of the George Formby Society
REX BLAKER , author of a new Formby biography
Additional research: AUDREYKAYE Arranged and presented by FRANK DIXON
Production by HERBERT SMITH (from Manchester)
(Repeated: Friday, 9.5 am)
In which Mr Smee , Nerys and Henry return to the Humbug Studio with a fresh supply of songs, jokes, facts and games; and a new story: and a new Rex Radio adventure; and a new set of proposals for things to do. which includes listening for the first arrival of the cuckoo and nightingale, polishing pebbles, making a sundial, cooking, planting seeds, investigating the motor car, helping birds build their nests, writing coded letters, playing games.... Script by ALEXANDER GUYAN Presented by MICHAEL SMEE NERYS HUGHES , GARARD GREEN Produced by ELIZABETH ORNBO Editor MARGARET SHEFFIELD
and voices and topics introduced by David Jessel
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
A repeat performance of Sunday boredom with SIDNEY JAMES , BILL KERR
HATTIE JACQUES , KENNETH WILLIAMS Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT
Written by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON
Produced by TOM RONALD
with starlit memories and records of her friends in the world of entertainment
Produced by RONALD cook
by R. L. STEVENSON
Abridged for radio in four parts Read by Leonard Maguire 1: John sows the wind
'John was dismissed rather earlier than usual from his father's office. It was Saturday; and except that he had a matter of 1400 in his pocket to deliver to the bank. he had the whole afternoon at his disposal.' Produced by GORDON EMSLIE
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening.
Presented by David Jessel and Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Tom Bostock presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGI 'EBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A tragedy by BERNARD SHAW with Alec McCowen , Maurice Denham William Eedle , Mary Wimbush Shaw's satire on the medical profession was written in response to William Archer 's challenge that he could not aspire to high rank as a dramatist until he had written a death scene. In a typical programme note, Shaw commented: ' Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.'
The action takes place in 1903 Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX 1 followed by an interlude
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
An inquiry in five parts by Leslie Smith into some of the latest experimental findings about the nature of sleep, insomnia and dreams.
Speakers include: DR IAN OSWALD and other members of Britain's permanent Sleep Research Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh; DR CHRISTOPHER EVANS of the National Physical Laboratory; and DR ROBERT WILKINSON of the Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit at Cambridge
1: Facts and Fallacies about Sleep
Produced by MICHAEL EMBER
Towards the End oj the Morning by MICHAEL FRAYN
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (t)
preceded by Weather
