Market trends, news, weather
A meditation for Ash Wednesday with The Rev. Eric James.
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Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Today's "Ten to Seven"
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Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by ERIC HOBBIS , ERNEST NEAL and RALPH WIGHTMAN
Question-Master, DEREK JONES
A shortened version of Sunday's broadcast
Introductory music
9.35 THE Service
Lord of all hopefulness (Tune,
Slane)
Interlude: Enemies and Allies.
Doubt, challenge, and acceptance: part 2
The Prayer for Guidance
Fight the good fight (Tune,
Duke Street)
Repeated: Friday, 9.5 a.m.
Ash Wednesday
New Every Morning, page 72
Lo, now is our accepted day
(BBC H.B. 342)
Canticle 5
Isaiah 58, vv. 1-14
Christian, seek not yet repose
(BBC H.B. 340)
Written by Emile Harven
Intermediate French series
1: The sounds we hear by HARRY ARMSTRONG
Junior Science series
More circus animals and some rather complicated musical activities
Songs: Listen to the band Here come the animals
Introduced by JOHN Huw DAVIES
Written and produced by William Murphy
The British Overseas in the 1960s
This week:
PETER REYNOLDS looks at
The British in North America
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Tuesday's broadcast (Light)
3: Rabbits
Pets that became a plague Written by A. L. Lloyd
Exploration Earth series
2.20 OTHELLO by William Shakespeare adapted by Robert Gittings
Part 3
Other parts played by Alaric Cotter , Godfrey Kenton and Stephen Thorne
Produced by David Lyttle
Books. Plays. Poems series
Written by Oliver Gilbert
Nature series
Part-Song by Kenneth Ross with Mary Wimbush , Michael Bates and Sylvia Coleridge
' You don'know what it's like seeing everything you've lived for ... your whole life ... just disappear.'
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
The Stone of Scone:
JACK SINGLETON recalls, with recordings of those involved, the taking of the Coronation Stone from Westminster Abbey fifteen years ago
That Song Reminds Me:
ELISABETH WELCH tells KEN SYKORA about people she has met during her career and introduces some of their records
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by STEVE RACE
The Island of Sheep by John Buchan adapted as an eight-part serial by Felix Felton and Susan Ashman with Malcolm Hayes
6: Council of War
Produced by STEWART CONN in the BBC's Glasgow studios
Felix Felton and Malcolm Hayes broadcast by permission of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company. Edinburgh
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Five-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. Northern Ireland
Round 1
London:
SIR DENIS BROGAN CEDRIC CLIFFE
Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE
Northern Ireland:
JAMES BOYCE , RONALD GREEN
Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLEY
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
Tuesday's broadcast
Henryk Szeryng (violin)
London Mozart Players Leader, Robert Masters
Conductor, Harry Blech
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
† GEORCE GLOVER , who has been spending four years in the Far East, recalls a recent journey around what he calls the Canton - Hangchow - Shanghai-Peking-Hankow circuit
Part 2
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† WALTER TAPLIN introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics
HOWARD FLETCHER (organ),
From the Church of St. John the Baptist. Holland Road, London