6.27 Farming Today presented by ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning 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 CARDINAL HKENAN
7.50 Travel news
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
Were the stars of the music-hall really that good?
Daniel Farson , author of a new biography of Marie Lloyd , tries to show, with the aid of many original recordings, how magnificent the singers like Marie Lloyd , Vesta Tilley , Albert Chevalier and Hetty King really were.
Eye-witness accounts. Including those of SIR MAX BEERBOHM and SIR CHARLES TENNYSON , confirm this opinion.
Producer DEREK drescueb gramophone records
NEM p 47; Come down, 0 Love divine (BBC HB 149); Psalm 143; Isaiah 54. vv 1-10 (rsv); 0 Holy Ghost, thy people bless (BBC HB 156)
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by BRYAN KELLY
Including the Adagio from ' Spartacus ' by Khachaturyan, and Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No I
CYRIL SMITH and PHYLLIS SELLICK at two pianos play music by Bach, Brahms and Bizet
JOHN DUNN introduces
A Wizard of Earthsea Read by PETER FRANCE 2: The Shadow
Presenter Nancy Wise Home and Family
First Steps to Stardom - or deep disappointment and wasted money? MOLLY PRICE-OWEN investigates the child-model business.
Breast Feeding: SYLVIA CLOSE, child-care adviser to the National Childbirth Trust, answers questions on breast feeding.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud. Peter Jones and Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Digger the Tractor Shovel by JANET RAIl
RADIO BIG BAND leader NIGEL CARTER conducted by MALCOLM I.OCKYER HENRY KRElN AND HIS QUARTET
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
bv JOAN O'CONNOR adapted in three parts from the novel by honors DE BALZAC with Ian Ogllvy and Stacey Tendeter
3: But Your Life is Mine
Raphael has found his ideal love, and cast away his fateful talisman, the wild ass's skin: but his life hangs by a thread. Pauline Gaudin. STACEY TENDETER Producer
JANE GRAHAM
(Nickolas Grace is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co) (Radio Times People: page 4)
The Worst Journey In the World bv APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD Read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS 7: The Polar Journey
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
or Your Favourite Spike
A series of uncorrected mishaps, mistakes and misdeeds perpetrated by Spike Milligan misaligned with John Bluthal, Vilma Hollingbery, Christopher Langham, Alan Clare and his Quartet
Guest singer Salena Jones
Script by Spike Milligan, Peter Spence and Christopher Langham
Producer John Browell
(Vilma Hollingbery is in 'The Man Most Likely To' at the Duke of York's Theatre, London)
(Radio Times People: page 4)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party.
Ring Robin Day to put your question on a subject of political importance - the topic and the guest to be announced.
[number removed] lines) will take questions from 6.0 pm onward Producer WALTER WALLICH
The 1903 mission to Tibet of Francis Younghusband, soldier, explorer and mystic
A documentary drama composed by CHARLES ALLEN
Other parts BRIAN HAINES
LEWIS STRINGEP JOHN RUDDOCK
JOHN SAMSON. FRASER KERR and OLWEN GRIFFITHS
Special sound by BBC Radiophonic Workshop Producer MICHAEL MASOM
Six talks on the development and future of the European Community by Andrew Shonfield , Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs
Andrew Shonfield discusses the present limited capacity of Western Europe to act decisively in a crisis. He suggests how the nations of the European Community could begin to operate a common foreign policy involving the majority of the Embassies which they at present maintain around the world.
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Travels with my Aunt by GRAHAM GREENE
Read by TIMOTHY WEST (7)
preceded by Weather
