6.27 Farming Today presented by robin HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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
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
9.5 Religious Service for Primary Schools
9.25 Material for Assembly
LESLIE SMITH talks to CHRIS SIMPSON of the Magna Carta pop group
9.35 You and Survival 7: Let there be light written by LEWIS JONES presented by PETER PACEY
9.55 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
NEM p 76; Lone in the desert (BBC HB 343); Psalm 118, vv 1-14; John 14, vv 12-21 (AV); All praise to thee (BBC HB 401)
10.30 La France Aujourd'hul French IV. 17: Contrastes - 2 (radiovision) written by PAULE-ALINE DENT
French V. 17: Albert Camus written by CHARLOTTE CROZET
11.0 Time and Tune. 17: words by JOHN EMLYN EDWARDS
Music by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Man
7: The house of eternity by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrator BARRY FOSTER
11.40 Geography
Scottish Lowlands: Oceanspan (i) by MARGARET STORRIE
Presenter John Edmunds Health and Welfare
April is the cruellest month ... DEREK COOPER talks to a consultant psychiatrist about depression and the time of year. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? (Write to You and Yours, BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA)
VHF South West: see Variations
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Jane and her Gran by MARY FROST
2.0 Living Language The Air Raid Shelter by PENELOPE FARMER
Producer richard WORTLEY
2.20 Movement and Music II by JAMES DODDING
2.40 Learning about Life 7: Having a Family
Programme arranged and introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
Barry by DAVID FITZSIMMONS
The life and times of a broadcaster-about-town
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Julian by GORE VIDAL
Bead by DENYS HAWTHORNE (4)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
That's My Pigeon
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
Write to Any Answers?. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Richard Baker describes The Making of an Opera
I would be prepared to accept the failure of all my other compositions if only I could see a complete production of War and Peace (PROKOFIEV)
In the summer of 1941. when the German armies invaded Russia, the composer Sergei Prokofiev began to write one of the most moving works of our century: the opera War and Peace. His inspiration was the 3 echo of that earlier invasion < by Napoleon in 1812 and its reflection in Tolstoy's great
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Prokofiev worked on the opera for 12 years, completing the final draft a few weeks before his death in March 1953. He never saw it performed. with DAVID MAHLOWE as Prokofiev and Other parts read by PAUL WEBSTER , DAVID KILLICX Written by NORMAN SWALLOW Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON
A weekly magazine of the arts Presented by John Julius Norwich including
Suzanna Andler : Marguerite Duras 's play set in St Tropez about the unhappy wife of a millionaire - now at the Aidwych Theatre, London for a three-week season. Eileen Atkins , who stars in the play, talks about it and its author With HAROLD HOBSON.
Robyn Denny is the youngest artist ever to have a major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery. DAVID THOMPSON , author of a book about Robyn Denny , discusses the man and his work.
Producer MIRIAM RAPP
(More about the play and the exhibition in Arts Commentary: Friday at 9.20 pm R3)
What's happening in science and technology?
Paul Vaughan rounds up the important, the interesting and the off-beat in a weekly look into the world of the future. Producer MICHAEL TOTTON
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
by Paul Gallico
Read by Geoffrey Matthews
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
