with Edward Cole
Prayer for the Day (Mon FR ERIC DOYLE , OFM, Tues-Thurs THE REV ERNEST REA , Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES )
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather

Nigel Rees in London
Michael Cooke in Manchester

with Edward Cole
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather

Michael Cooke in Manchester
Nigel Rees in London
8.35 Headlines, weather, sport

Five classic stories of the uncanny by AMBROSE BIERCE Read by Robert Lang
1: A Horseman in the Sky

Studio guests join the regular team for 55 minutes of live interviews, argument and music. Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE

What happens to a hedgehog's fleas when the hedgehog hibernates? A prickly problem for today's Wildlife team.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol

NEM, p 118; Give heed, my heart (BBC HB 48); Psalm 91; Hebrews 2, vv 5-18 (NEB); See amid the winter's snow (Carols for Choirs 33)

For the Love of Flute by DOROTHY CHISHOLM. Read by Paul Meier

11.50 Announcements

Presenter George Luce With MARGARET KORVING

Round 1
8: Northern Ireland FOYLE AND LONDONDERRY COLLEGE JUNIOR SCHOOL, SPRINGTOWN V ASSUMPTION GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BALLYNAHINCH.
Questionmasters TIM GUDGIN and PADDY FEENY
Questions set by ROY SMITH
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)

12.55 medium only Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Introduced by Robert Williams

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The Barrow Poets Ask: Do you feel ... optimistic?
2.0-2.2 News
Nothing's Impossible!: NORMAN CROUCHER talks to BERNARD JACK SON about a remarkable achievement in mountaineering.
Migrating Grannies: MIKE SHEILS hears about a long winter holiday in the sun.
Sea Wyf and Biscuit by j. M. SCOTT abridged in ten parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by John Samson (1)
On Wednesday 7 March 1951 the following announcement appeared in the personal column of the Daily Telegraph: Sea Wyf home at last. Please get in touch Biscuit.
And so began the uncovering of an exciting wartime story of a shipwreck, and 14 weeks adrift on a float in the Indian Ocean. (Music: Searle's Aubade)

Story: The Cat and the Mouse by DAVID HITCHIN

Letter from Paris by DODIE SMITH adapted from HENRY JAMES 'S novel The Reverberator with John Standing. Bonnie Hurren John Rowe and Ed Bishop
' Gaston, she may be all you say and even more - she has a sweet expression, I'd take her to be gentle and lovable. And yet she may still make you bitterly unhappy.'
Directed by BETTY DAVIES

Mapp and Lucia by E. F. BENSON abridged in ten parts and read by Aubrey Woods (1)
Deadly rivalry and brilliant malice thrive amongst the bridge fours and teacups when Mrs Lucas invades Miss Mapp's territory in the quaint old town of Tilling. Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol

Presented by Robert Williams

Dennis Potter goes to the Archive Auction.
Producer ANTHONY WALL
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather

by Donald Bull New stories about the characters created by A J Cronin

(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)

by Terence Rattigan
In tribute to Sir Terence Rattigan, who died in November, a repeat of his last play which was originally written for radio.
Starring Diana Dors with Gwen Watford, Carleton Hobbs , Robert Harris, Noel Johnson and Robin Browne
('Cause Celebre' is now running at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)

Presenter Chris Powling Producer JOHN BOUNDY
9.59 Weather

Victorian Music-Hall from underneath the arches introduced by John Hewer with those firm favourites Jan Hunt Denis Martin , Sheila Mathews
Eleanor McCready , John Rut -land, Julia Sutton. and as a special treat, Bernard Crib bins, Barry Cryer and your very own Ian Wallace. At the pianoforte GEOFFREY BRAWN
Special material DENIS MARTIN Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Jan Hunt is in ' Boom Boom ' at the Victoria Palace, London)

Pete Murray steps warily into the improbable world of the Practical Joke with the voices of ROY HUDD , ALAN COREN , ORSON WELLES, MARJORIE STRACHEY , RICHARD DIMBLEBY , ROGER ORDISH and HANS KELLER. Written and researched by PETER SPENCE
Producer JOHN LLOYD

Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude