for farmers
The morning magazine
Introduced by Peter Bryant
followed by an interlude
The First Week of Lent
Talks by the Rt. Rev. Stephen McGiU
3: Self-discipline-the mind
Norma Fisher (piano)
CINCINNATUS
How a Roman dictator saved his country and immediately returned to his farm (458 B.c.)
Script by Margaret J. Miller
A story from World History
Now Israel may say. and that truly
(BBC H.B. 464)
New Every Morning, page 99 Psalm 46 (Broadcast psalter) St. Mark 7. v. 31, to 8, v. 10
0 for a thousand tongues to sing
(BBC H.B. 278)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
visits Cheltenham for a programme of folk songs and dances with The Garden City Folk Group
Alex Hamilton (accordion) and the Gloster Square. Dance Band
Guest M.C., Nibs Matthews
Programme arranged and introduced by Kenneth Clark
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
accompanied by Lawrence Brown
Produced by Bill Worsley
Sunday's recorded broadcast in the Light Programme
LET'S JOIN IN
' Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel' by Virginia Lee Burton: how Mike saved Mary Ann from the scrapheap
2.20 THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
Pushkin's fairy tale about the oriental kingdom of King Dodon, set to music by Rimsky-Korsakov Second of two programmes introduced by Roger Fiske
2.40 MODERN HISTORY
The Berlin Air-Lift
Script by Henry Marshall
A dramatic reconstruction of the long and intricate operation which carried food and fuel to West Berlin when the Stalin Government attempted to force the Occupation Forces of Britain, France, and the U.S.A. out of the Western Sectors of Berlin.
Ah, Note of Fear. by JAMES McFarlan with Coral Fairwearher
When her husband died, Alice Bullingdon, feeling free at last to live a life of her own, shut up her big country house and went abroad. But she found she could not get away from the past.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
3.30 app. The Truth About
Great-Grandmamma by JAMES McFARLAN
Veronica Forsyth remembered her grandmother as a very formal and rather forbidding old lady, an average woman of her period. When Veronica and her husband were stripping an old sofa, however, some of the objects they found down the back of it did not at all suggest Victorian propriety.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Plays produced by R. D. SMITH
from St. Columb's Cathedral, Londonderry, Co. Derry
Preces and Responses (Tallis) Psalms 108 and 109 First Lesson: Genesis 46, vv. 26-34. and 47. vv. 1-12
Magnificat (Walmisley in D minor) Second Lesson: Philippians 3
Nunc dimittis (Walmisley in D minor)
Creed: Lesser Litany; Versicles and Responses (Tallis)
Anthem: Call to remembrance
(Farrant)
Prayers; The Grace
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Michael H. Franklin
TONY LANE worked for six months in Uranium City. He describes this new boom town of Canada's frozen north and the people who live there.
Junior Time
A programme for the fives to eights
Spin Me a Story
Records introduced by Claire Chovil
5.15 The Websters of Barrowdale: Orphans of the Storm
Written for broadcasting by Alick Hayes
Another incident in the life of a North-country veterinary surgeon and his family.
(BBC recording)
5.40 The Hobbit: 8: The Fire in the Woods
The book by J.R.R. Tolkien abridged by Barbara Henderson read in thirteen instalments by David Davis
Forecast for land areas. followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
A series of five-round contests
London v. Scotland
ROUND 2
London
Denis Brogan , Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master,
Lionel Hale
Scotland Sir James Fergusson Jack House
Quiz-Master, Kevin FitzGerald
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
Missa Solemnis
by Ilys Booker
Menfi, a township of western Sicily, has a prince and a baron and 13,000 other inhabitants, mostly peasants. Here, where the notion of a ' community ' is virtually unknown and only family ties count, Ilys Booker works as a Community Development Officer. Her social centre is one of five established in Sicily by Danilo Dolci.
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
played by Raymond Cohen (violin)
Anthya Rael (piano)