for farmers

The morning magazine
Introduced by Peter Bryant

followed by an interlude

Seventy-five years of Church work and women's part in it
Speaker, Margaret Stansgate

MUCIUS THE LEFT-HANDED
How a young man won peace for Rome and an honourable nickname for himself (507 B.C.)
A story from World History Script by Phyllis Drayson

Forty days and forty nights (BBC
H.B. 341)
New Every Morning, page 76 Psalm 130 (Broadcast psalter) St. Matthew 6. vv. 16-24
Lone in the desert, facing all temptation (BBC H.B. 343)

Ransome and Maries
Works' Band
Conductor, George Hespe

Country tunes and songs from the British Isles and abroad
Willie Walker and his Band
Bill Robinson., Alex Glasgow
Billy Pigg (Northumbrian, pipes) Produced by Richard Kelly

Forecast for land areas, followed by detailed forecast for the South-East

accompanied by Lawrence Brown
Sunday's recorded broadcast in the Light Programme

LET'S JOIN IN: 'Little Old Mrs. Pepperpot': a light-hearted fantasy about an old lady who shrinks to the size of her name by Alf Proysen

2.20 THE GOLDEN COCKEREL: Pushkin's fairy tale about the oriental kingdom of King Dodon, set to music by Rimsky-Korsakov The first of two programmes introduced by Roger Fiske

2.40 MODERN HISTORY: The Marshall Plan
Script by Margaret Wood
The year 1947 was the worst of the post-war years, with shortages throughout Europe. The Recovery Programme initiated by U.S. General Marshall brought new hope to Europe.

Do the Good Deed by RUSSELL S. CLARK
Haphazardly the Headmaster of St. Appian's Academy for Young Gentlemen chooses an old boy to make the end of term speech. Unhappily he chooses a gangster who creates havoc and confusion.
3.30
The Mind of Harold Rigby by CHARLES HATTON
Harold Rigby comes to a police station confessing that he has made a murderous attack on his wife. His own reasons are justified, but there is a turn of the screw which even he does not suspect.
Plays produced by CEDRIC MESSINA s

by George Ordish who describes the life of a farmhouse in Kent, since it was built in Tudor times; the people who may have lived in it; the insects and animals who have made it their home; and the effect each has had on the other.
Photo: The Living House ' (Rupert Hart Davis )

JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights
Mr. Peckew and Mr. Paygo
Arnold Peters tells the first story in a new series by R. G. Walker
1: Mr. Peckew in a Fix
Introduced by Peggy Bacon
5.15 THE IVORY CROCODILE A new ' Charter Pilot' serial by Gilbert Dalton
Part 6 (conclusion)
Produced by Peggy Bacon
5.40 THE HOBBIT
The book by J. R. R. Tolkien abridged by Barbara Henderson read in thirteen instalments by David Davis
7: The House of Beorn

Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region

A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. Scotland
ROUND 1
London:
Denis Brogan
Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master,
Lionel Hale : Scotland
Sir James Fergusson
Jack House
Quiz-Master, Kevin FitzGerald
Arranged by Patrick Harvey

Part 1

Richard Cox was the fifteenth white man to sign the visitors' book at Aiyetoro-an extraordinary community in the heart of the creek country in Nigeria. He describes his visit with the help of recordings he made there.

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Part 2

The News
Background to the News
People in the News

Elise Cserfalvi (violin)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
The recorded broadcast of Jan. 17 in the Third Programme