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Wednesday's 'Ten to Eight'

and Programme News

Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by CORBET WOODALL

Holy Places
Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire visited by WILLIAM PURCELL

and Programme News

For the beauty of the earth
(Tune, England's Lane-S.P. 494)
Stories which fed the mind of Jesus: Leadership-Moses in exile
The Prayer of Understanding
The King of Love my Shepherd is (Tune, St. Columba-S.P 654)
Tuesday's broadcast

1: Numerals by JAMES HAWTHORNE

St. Matthew
New Every Morning, page 83 Jesus calls us! (BBC H.B. 354)
Psalm 50
St. Matthew 19, vv. 16-30
Lord. thy word abideth (BBC
H.B. 190)

Written by Professor Hugo Zelzer
German for Sixth Forms series

Follow-up
JOHN Huw DAVIES and the girls of the Orpington Junior Singers lead in some of the activities of the Music Workshop
Written and produced by William Murphy

Ferdinando the donkey likes prickly thorns.
Introduced by JOHN CAMBURN
Written and produced by Jenyth Worsley

1: Telling the Time
Written by Philip Holland
Starting Points series

Some basic features of drainage and flood prevention in the Bedford Levels
Written by W. E. Doran
Geography series
A radtovision programme

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: 'The Little White Piano '
by Mary Harbett

A play in verse by Ted Hughes
1: The Fiery Furnace
Living Language series

One for sorrow, two for joy
Poems presented by NICHOLAS EDMETT , NERYS HUGHES and JON ROLLASON

Follow-up
A practice broadcast revising some of the musical activities of Music Workshop I
Written and produced by William Murphy

Government legislation and taxes and the growth of the massive multiple stores are threatening the livelihood of thousands of shop-keepers and small traders throughout Britain. What does the future hold for them? Have they a right to special support?
Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Produced by Alan Burgess
Broadcast in the series Focus on March 28

A discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting, and art
Sunday's broadcast
See facing page

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Saved by a Nocturne:
NATALIA KARP , the concert pianist, tells Anne Catehpole how a Chopin Nocturne saved her life during the war
Come Back Tommie McEvoy :
ROBIN SMYTH tells another story of his boyhood as an evacuee in Scotland tDrop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The book by C. S. Lewis abridged as a serial reading in seven parts by NAOMI LEWIS
Read by DAVID DAVIS
PART 5
The Witch knows that when Aslan the Great Lion, the true King returns her winter will fade away. She has managed to win over Edmund. who has foolishly revealed to her that Aslan has come at last, and that the other three children have set out to meet him at the Stone Table. The Witch bundles him into her sledge as hostage, and sets out to cut them off.

Repeated: Friday, 1.30 p.m.

Erich Gruenberg (violin) BBC Welsh Orchestra Leader, Colin Staveley
Conductor, John Carewe

Written and narrated by BILL KNOX
After Bonnie Prince Charlie escaped 'over the sea to Skye' his rescuer, Flora MacDonald , emigrated to North America like thousands of Highlanders
On a visit to North Carolina Bill Knox recorded evidence of how their descendants keep Flora's memory green.
Produced by Archie P. Lee

Portraits of top scientists drawn from their own mouths
Dr. Steven Rose
Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College, London talks to MARY GOLDRING of The Economist and DAVID WILSON
BBC Science Correspondent
Steven Rose is the ' young lton ' of these programmes. Technically he is a twenty-nine-year-old biochemist interested in the mechanics of memory. In their spare time he and his wife write among other things on the organisation of science -and the iniquities of Vietnam.
A Science Unit production

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

Impressions of life in South-East Asia by DAVID WILLEY of the BBC's Far East staff
2: The American Crusade
Friday: The Problem of Aid

HUGH BEAN (violin)
DAVID PARKHOUSE (piano)

The Home Service stays open later than usual tonight to bring you special reports and comment on today's two by-elections, one of which-at Cambridge-is a highly marginal Labour seat.
The declaration of both results will be broadcast on the spot, and studio contributors include: The Chairman of National Opinion Polls. Michael SHIELDS ; the BBC's Political Correspondent, HARDIMAN Scorr ; and a Liberal spokesman from their Assembly at Blackpool.