with DAVID SIMMONS
SUSIE BARNES with guest for the Week ROBIN CHADWICK
with CHRIS MOHR and JENNY THOMPSON
PAUL OWENS with easy-listening music
KEITH YEOMANS explores a current London issue
With TONY FISH including
London News Desk at 5.0, 6.0
In the first of two programmes Roger Clark talks to the former Chief Announcer, Stuart Hibberd, who joined the BBC on its second birthday in 1924. He recalls Bernard Shaw, the General Strike, Churchill's antagonism to the BBC, and John Reith and G.K. Chesterton. Stuart also talks about the early days at Savoy Hill when there were rats and a flying bat in the studios and the BBC was forced off the air by a mouse.
BRIAN PRIESTLEY introduces 90 minutes of jazz music covering all styles of jazz, and talks to some of the stars