Market trends, news, weather

Wednesday's "Ten to Eight".

and Programme News

Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO

Matches in the Dark
A series of readings from biographies and autobiographies 5: from The Golden String by Bede Griffiths , O.S.B.

and Programme News

THEDA POYNER, who was a child in Berlin in May 1945 when the Red Army entered the city, concludes her story of her experiences

5: Calculating (ii)
Bones and brains by JAMES HAWTHORNE

by RACHEL PERCIVAL
Music selected and arranged by Vera Gray
Tuesday's broadcast

New Every Morning, page 58
Love of love, and Light of light (BBC H.B. 521)
Psalm 119, part 3
Acts 8, vv. 25-40 (N.E.B.)
Our blest Redeemer, ere he breathed (BBC H B. 160)

A series of talks based less on hard purpose than on personal observation
Cities That Excite Me
Five talks by NOEL BARBER
4: Rome-San Francisco -Copenhagen

Follow-up
A practice broadcast In which John Huw Davies leads practice of activities begun in the Music Workshop
Written and produced by William Murphy

John Camburn pilots the Time, Space, and Tune Machine XK15 into the musical past and present
Written and produced by Jenyth Worsley
Time and Tune series

by James Evetts
Geography series

Follow-up
Practice in musical activities begun in the Music Workshop
Written and produced by William Murphy

by MESTON BATCHELOR
There aren'many of us who haven't, at some time. had things 1 concealed about our person ' which would be awkward to explain away to a really determined constable

The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE

Wednesday evening's broadcast

for children under five
Today's story: 'Tea on the Train ' by Lilian Daykin

A group of three poetry programmes by Connie Rosen 2: Looking Closely
Living Language series

1: Eggs for energy
Written by Elizabeth Kilham-Roberts
Starting Points series

There has been a British ' colony' in Oporto since John of Gaunt's Treaty with Portugal in 1372. Its interest generally has been the wine trade. How does it see itself now?
SONYA CALLINGHAM has been talking to the colonists
Produced by Patrick Harvey

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting, and art

This week: John Bowen, John Gross, George Melly, Alexander Walker
In the chair, J.W. Lambert

(Sunday's broadcast)

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Born 1872: David Powell talks to BERTRAND RUSSELL , o.m., on the occasion of his ninety-fifth birthday
With Balkan Gypsies:
BERNARD NEWMAN describes a brief encounter
Soup and Spuds: in Cordon
Rouge GEORGE VILLIERS gives a recipe for mushroom soup and advice about cooking new potatoes
Drop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

The book by Stanley G. Watts arranged as a dramatised reading in four parts by NAN MACDONALD
The river is in flood, and Gran's barge has broken away from its moorings. With Gran and Pru and Tommy and Eddy and Zacchy on board, it is being swept down towards the weir.
Produced by HERBERT SMITH in the North of England

and Programme News

Introduced by RICHARD WHITMORE and MICHAEL CLAYTON

Part 2: Mahler
Symphony No. 1, in D major

The News
Background to the News People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
GILES PLAYFAIR introduces letters from today's postbag

†ALAN HACKER (clarinet and basset-horn) WILFRED HAMBLETON (clarinet and basset-horn) MARTIN GATT (bassoon)