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 Oe Manio and John Timpson
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
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra: and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES ) VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
Written and read by DARRELL BATES
2: The Guinea Pig Game
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News Staff
Clifford Mollison is president of the Green Room Club and in the course of his 70 years on the stage has known and worked with many famous actors and actresses. He talks to DENYS GUEROULT about his career in the theatre, which began as a child learning Shakespearian monologues while sitting on the knee of Henry Irving. Produced by DENYS GUEROULT
NEM p 33; This joyful Eastertide (BBC KB 115); Psalm 20; Mark 16, vv 9-20 (NEB); Christ the Lord is risen again (BBC HB 101)
Introduced by Sidney Harrison who invites you to listen to some easily-remembered music played by the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by TERENCE LOVETT with CAROLE ROSEN (mezzo-contralto) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Produced by JOHN MELOY
by Deborah de Vere White
The first of four morning plays about family life
'I'm always the one in the wrong, he never is. But if one of us doesn't give in there'll be no peace in the house and I'll never get anything done... must pass, I must.'
(Tomorrow: The Family Bond by Donald Tosh)
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Home and Family
One-Parent Families - part 1: Home without Father. LESLIE SMITH investigates
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA; or phone [number removed], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: see col 2
From the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with The Greatest Burden written and adapted by HARRY GREEN
Broadcast by arrangement With GRAHAM STEWART Produced by PETER TITHERADGE
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The two Teddy Bears by MRS J. GREY
A musical tale of The Strauss Family
Devised, written and narrated by BERNARD GRUN featuring Lea Seidl as Adele Strauss with members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company 1: Father and Son
Produced by LILIAN DUFF (Tomorrow 2: Cornucopia)
A novel sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 4: The Warning
Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
A series of six programmes by JULIA SMALL
1: The man who built the tunnel - Marc Isambard Brunei
Few commuters going by tube from New Cross to Shoreditch realise that this tunnel under the Thames was once regarded as one of the wonders of the world.
Readers DENYS HAWTHORNE and HENRY STAMPER
Produced by JOHN SCOTNEY
(from Northern Ireland)
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
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Jimmy Clitheroe in Don'Shoot, I'm Only Acting
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Tom Bostock presenting world news and views
Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Ray Illingworth , who brought the Ashes back to England.
As summer approaches what is the outlook for County and Test Cricket?
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed](12 lines) will take them from 6.30 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air.
Produced by WALTER WALLICH
Lindbergh ...
Peugeot ... Cross ...
Beihl Edgar Lustgarten recalls four famous cases of kidnapping and examines the motives behind them.
' I'd always identified it with money; someone seized-snatched as they say now - in the hope of getting money for restoring them. I was wrong.' with MARGARET-WOLFIT, JOHN SRYNING KERRY FRANCIS , RICHARD GRIFFITHS and EDWARD KELSEY Produced by MICHELL RAPER
The Recovery of Western Europe The second of two lectures in which Dr Bullock, modern historian, biographer of Hitler and Bevin, looks back on European politics of the last quarter of a century.
A broadcast version of last year's Stevenson Memorial Lecture sponsored by the Royal Institute of International Affairs,
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
LESSLIE SMITH continues his inquiry into the nature of Sleep 2: Insomnia-Causes and Cures
Towards the End of the Mowing by MICHAEL FRAYN
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (7)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
