6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.0 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
7.59-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 News and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglla, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES ) VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
The story by L. M. MONTGOMERY abridged by CHISTINA SELLORS Read by Ann Murray
She was about eleven. She wore an ugly yellow dress, a faded brown sailor hat. Her hair was red, her face was thin and freckled, her eyes large and green. Matthew Cuthbert knew he ought to break it to her at once. but how do you tell an orphan girl that it is all a terrible mistake? That you ' ordered a boy Producer JOHN CARDY
(First cf 13 instalments)
Zena Skinner , Vivian Stanshall and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week Producer richard GILBERT
NEM p 1; 0 worship the Lord (BBC HB 267); Psalm 63; Luke 14. vv 1-14; A safe stronghold (BBC HB 267)
Philip Hope-Wallace introduces excerpts from a recently issued gramophone record of Messager's popular operetta,
Sumvier Programme
Mr Smee, Judy and Henry are in the Humbug studio with more songs and jokes, a quiz, two stories, a further adventure of Captain Rex Radio, and interesting things about cowboys. codes, cooking, inventions, first aid and animals. Script by ALEXANDER GUYAN Presented by MICHAEL SMEE
JUDY BENNET and GARARD GREEN With NIGEL LAMBERT
PETER TUDDENHAM , JOHN BULL
DAVID BRIERLEY , SHIRLEY DIXON Produced and edited by
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
in Hancock's Half-Hour Another chance to hear The Grappling Game with SIDNEY JAMES , BILL KERR HATTIE JACQUES
KENNETH WILLIAMS
Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT Written by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON Producer TOM RONALD
PHILIP HOWARD investigates the origins and history of this old English custom which began 100 years ago.
Victorian businessmen foresaw the collapse of the country if the banks closed, but Parliament passed the Bill which today gives everyone the right to join the traffic jams to coast and countryside, there to celebrate the curious rites of the English Bank Holiday. Reader JOHN BENTLEY
Producer HELEN FRY
You're a Long Time Dead
by Meade Falkner abridged in ten parts by Donald Bancroft
Read by Paul Douglas
The year is 1758. Moonfleet is a small village on the Dorset coast. ancestral seat of the extinct family of the Mohunes. After a flood, young John Trenchard discovers a mysterious hole in the churchyard and decides to explore... (from Bristol)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening.
Presented by Robert Williams and Roger Cook
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Written by RONNIE TAYLOR
A light-hearted look at life in which Al airs the views of the silent majority on the subject of: The Roof Over Your Head
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
(Your invitation to the wedding of the year: pages 52-55)
John Simpson presenting world news and views
Yootha Joyce as Edna and Liza Goddard as Victoria say You want it, we find it in the weekly adventures of an agency with SEAN ARNOLD , JOHN BADDELEY CAROLINE BLAKISTON
BETTINA DICKSON , SHEILA GRANT MICHAEL KILGARRIFF
Script by TERENCE BRADY and CHARLOTTE BINGHAM
Producer JOHN BRIDGES
A new panel game in which
Cyril Fletcher , June Whitfield Caryl Brahms and Graeme Garden converse in verse with their chairman Gyles Brandreth who devised the game
Poems read by DAVID BRIERLEY Producer simon BRETT
by PETER TERSON
A boy grows up on industrial Tyneside during the Second World War: he watches its effects on the community he knew, the hopes and fears, successes and failures, of those who went to fight and those who stayed at home.
Producer TONY CLIFF †
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and' opinions from around the world
For the past 15 years the BBC's Far East correspondent ANTHONY LAWRENCE has been meeting the Chinese people and learning what they think and how they behave - politically, socially and in their personal relations. In a series of five talks he discusses the Chinese people as human beings rather than as a factor in world politics.
1: What Communism has Done to the People
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
South Riding by WINIFRED HOLTBY
Read by ANNETTE CROSBIE (11) †
All the day's news preceded by Weather 11. 31* Closedown
