6.27 Farming Today
Presented by ROBIN HICKS
C.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.0 News
The world this morning introduced by Robert Robinson and Douglas Cameron
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 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 )
8.40 Today's Papers
Contributed by the BBC'S Foreign News staff
says John Ebdon, 'embraces both Artie Shaw and the Beethoven Violin Concerto.' In this programme he plays some of his favourite records and explains how they have come to mean so much to him.
NEM p 58; Bright the vision that delighted (BBC HB 269); Psalm 119, part 3; Matthew 5, vv 27-37 (Rsv); Lead us, heavenly Father (BBC HB 307)
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by MICHAEL MOORES MAX JAFFA TRIO
Introduced by STUART FORSYTB
by ALAN GARNER
Read by GEOFFREY BANKS
2: The Treasures o] Elidor
Presenter Derek Cooper Your Home and Family
Holidays - the great divide: what do you do when the children want to go off on their own?
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Sorry, Wrono Number with NORMA RONALD , RONALD BADDILEY JOHN GRAHAM
Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
the voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Cat, the Dog. the Cow and the Milk by DOROTHY EDWARDS
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conductor KENNETH ALWYN
Including music by Rossini, Brahms and Bryan Kelly
MADGE STEPHENS singing songs by Mozart, John Ireland and Landon Ronald with WILFRID PARRY (piano)
by w. M. THACKERAY The adaptation by JOHN KEIR cross rearranged In five parts by BRIDGET MARROW with Judy Parfitt and Michael McClain
4: The Old Firm 1710-1714
In which Henry Esmond , having earned distinction as a soldier, inherits a fortune, loses a bride and finds his Jacobite loyalties sorely tested.
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL
visits Upwey in Dorset
Members of the Dorset Federation of Women's Institutes put their questions to:
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Introduced and produced by KENNETH FORD
Knight Crusader by RONALD WELCH
Read by JOHN JUSTIN 7: The Assassins
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
A panel game for four hands Leader of the pack and chairman is David Nixon who deals to June
Whitfield Patrick Moore , William Rushton Devised and shuffled by IAN MESSITER
Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
A Night at Collins'
PETER HEEVES , PAT WHITMORK and CHARLES YOUNG
MUSIC HALL SINGERS directed by CHARLES YOUNG LONDON STUDIO PLAYERS conducted by ALFRED RALSTON Chairman Roy Hudd
Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
(Roy Hudd is at Wellington Pier Theatre, Great Yarmouth)
Another chance to hear some of her own inimitable songs and sketches
At the piano WILLIAM BLEZARD Producer BILL WORSLEY
In tonight's programme, first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1964, Joyce Grenfell includes chronicles of ' Shirley's girl friend ' and the effusive nursery-school teacher; there's a monologue about a venerable English nanny, and a surprise ' straight ' item.
(Joyce Grenfell on This Week's Proms: page 12)
A portrait, in words and music, of the composer and his extraordinary city.
Written and introduced by GABRIEL WOOLF
This programme re-creates a city mad with music where the state asylums competed for orphans in order to excel each other in the size and brilliance of their choirs.
Vivaldi (1678-1741). known as ' the Red Priest,' was not the least strange of the city's inhabitants. He left a supply of splendid music, neglected and forgotten tiU the present century. with William Fox as Vivaldi and SEAN BARRETT
MARTIN FRIEND. RONALD HERDMAIf JOHN RUDDOCK , LEWIS STRINGER Producer HALLAM TENNYSON
John Tusa reporting
The Eustace Diamonds
Read by GERALDINE MCEWAN (14)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
