6.27 Farming Week: presented from Wales by GERRY GADSDEN
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
6.50 Travel news. What's on, and Keep Fit with Eileen Fowler VHF: Regional news, weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk; at 7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY on The Church of Christ
(Radio Times People: page 4)
7.50 Travel news, What's on VHF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35 Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations
by H. G. WELLS
Read by ROBERT HARDY (6)
(More of H. G. Wells : 7.30 pm)
Lance Percival , Linda Blandford Fritz Spiegl , Zena Skinner and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
S.55 Movement and Music II by JAMES DODDING
(Repeated: Thursday, 2.20 pm)
NEM p 33: King of glory (BBC HB 325): Psalm 24: Matthew 24, v 45, to 25, v 13 (rsv); Praise to the Lord (BBC HB 17)
10.30 Halb gewonnen ! 3: Arbeit in Rundfunk
Written by STEPHEN KANOCZ (recorded in Studio Münster, WDR)
11.0 Singing Together
11.20 Springboard (7-9) Your cat, my cat
Script by KARL WILLIAMS
11.40 Drama Workshop
Tongue-a-Lung: by MICHAEL ROLFE and JOHN SCADDING Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
Derek Cooper presents this edition of the Radio Four series that tackles topics of direct concern to you.
Work and Money. You and Your Job: a look at employment and prospects on Merseyside.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind? (Write to You and Yours, BBC, BroadcastingHouse, London W1A IAA) VHF South West: see Variations
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
Story: Mr Poppleton and his Dog Simon by VERA COLWELL
2.0 Exploration Earth Supertanker to Britain by PADDY FEENY
2.20 The Music Box
With GORDON REYNOLDS and MARI GRIFFITH
2.30 Speak. Matters of Fact: the sufferings of the distant and our reactions to them
2.40 Movement. Mime and Music II by BRIAN SANDERS
Hopjoy was Here
Atlantic Fury by HAMMOND INNES abridged in five parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by Henry Stamper
' ... That it was a fatal decision is now obvious ... Certainly personality played a part in what happened. It always does ... In this particular case a series of mishaps, unimportant in isolation but cumulatively dangerous in combination with the colossal forces unleashed against us, led, inevitably, to disaster.' 1: Prelude to a Disaster Producer ROGER PINE
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
Written and adapted for radio from their television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS The Bishop Buys a Mug starring and Guests
Producer JOHN DYAS
(Repeated: Wed, 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
by H. g WELLS: abridged in ten parts by Howard JONES Read by DAVID DAVIS 4: Romance
Having been dismissed from the Gents' Outfitters, Mr Polly has been urged to buy his own shop with the money he has inherited from his father. Producer GRAHAM GAULD
by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Peggy Ashcroft Festival
Peggy Ashcroft has wonderful dignity, strong passion, a sense of poetry, and that touch of ruthlessness which is fundamental 10 the character (DAILY TELEGRAPH: 29.4.53)
The music composed by ANTONY HOPKINS
Produced for radio by PETER WATTS from the 1953 production by GLEN BYAM SHAW at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
We are becoming, so we like to think, a rational and enlightened society. And yet superstition is something you don'have to look far to find.
Linda Blandford begins a series of five late-night conversations with self-confessed superstitious people and academics who study superstition. With ANTHONY GREEN, Senior Lecturer in Social Studies at Leeds University, she discusses The Bogeyman and other childhood magic.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Unconditional Surrender by EVELYN WAUCH : abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE -WILKINSON Read by Hugh Burden
This is the third and final book in the trilogy about Guy Crouchback who joined up in 1939 to fight a holy war against the dictators. When the book opens the war has been going on for four years and Guy has few illusions left.
Producer JOHN CARDY
(First of 15 instalments)
preceded by Weather
