Market trends, news, weather
Monday'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
By Request
Listeners' choice in readings and recordings
and Programme News
Revised second edition of the breakfast-time magazine
by FLORENCE MARY MCDOWELL
Read by MARY O'FARRELL
Second of five instalments
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
Shortened and revised edition of Saturday's broadcast
from Hull to Rotterdam in M.V. Norwave described by ROBERT STANNAGE and HAROLD ROGERS
220.000 square miles of grey, moody, and affluent waters. The sea of Saxon and Viking, of the Dogger Bank. Fair Isle and Forties, of sand dune, dike. and flood. For more than 2,000 years men have sailed these waters ... marauders and conquerors, pirates and colonisers, trawlermen, tourists. and prospectors.
Written by Robert Stannage
Produced by Harold Rogers
New Every Morning, page 29
This is the day (BBC H.B. 400)
Canticle 8
Colossians 1, V. 24, to 2, v. 7
(N.E.B.)
Think, 0 Lord, in mercy (BBC
H.B. 449)
played by the ORCHESTRA
Leader, Maurice Brett
Conductor, TERENCE LOVETT and MARCOSIGNORI (accordion)
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
A group of five morning plays performed by the BBC Drama Repertory Company Remember Old Jackie by John Richmond and Barbara Bolton
I don'know where all the years have gone. Ron and Colin grown up and married-and here are you and I still in the same house! '
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
.A sort of verbal tennis devised by Norman Hackforth
The players:
SHEILA HANCOCK
OLGA FRANKLIN
PAUL JENNINGS
NORMAN HACKFORTH and a special challenge this week from
PAT Moss and DORIAN WILLIAMS
In the umpire's chair, MAX ROBERTSON
Produced by David O'Clee
Pre-recorded at The Paris. Lower Regent Street. London. S.W.I
A musical quiz
Last Wednesday's broadcast
and Programme News
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Monday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story: 'Joppy can Walk' by Mary Cockett
from David Franklin including a selection from the BBC Midland Light Orchestra, leader, John Bradbury, conducted by Gilbert Vinter.
A radio serial in thirteen parts by Lance Sieveking based on the novel by Francesca Marton
with Patricia Leventon
1840: Betsey Wellard, from Kent, arrives in Bloomsbury, London, to take up her first situation as housemaid to the Whetstones.
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
Sunday's broadcast
with records On a Personal Note
A family magazine introduced by Steve Race and including:
Sorcerer's apprentice: Meston Batchelor is set to collect stump of tree and block of chalk for model reasons
Lord of all he surveys: Leslie Smith looks at the work of the District Surveyor, an office founded 300 years ago
The Faith of a Scientist: Bruce Tulloch talks to Sir Lawrence Bragg, F.R.S.
Drop us a line: your news, views, and memories
Tales from Jane Austen
Ten stories selected and abridged by H. OLDFIELD Box
1: 'How Mr. Collins found himself a wife ' from Pride and Prejudice
Read by BARBARA MITCHELL
and Programme News
Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines— 'Live' rush-hour traffic reports — Scotland Yard Calling — MICHAEL BROOKE looks at listeners' letters in Postscript-South-East Sport
Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit
by John Galsworthy adapted for broadcasting In forty-eight parts by MURIEL LEVY with Rachel Gurney
Alan Wheatley , Noel Johnson Kenneth Fortescue
25: The Family Skeleton Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
PETER KATIN (piano)
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader, Colin Staveley
Conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN
Given before an Invited audience at the Concert Hall. Broadcasting House. LlandaS, Cardiff
The ones that got away
BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE
PAT WILLIAMS and DESMOND MORRIS talk to RONALD EYRE about books of the past year they have particularly enjoyed and have not yet had the opportunity to discuss
Produced by Russell Harty
A series of four-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. Northern Ireland
Round 1
London
CEDRIC CLIFFE , BARRY CARMAN
Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE
Northern Ireland
C. E. B BRETT. RONALD GREEN
Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLEY
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
As the population gets healthier It gets older. But do we take enough care of old people? Do we house and feed them properly and-perhaps most important of all-make them feel wanted?
Focus examines these questions and lets old people and others express their opinions about an increasingly perturbing problem.
Narrated by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Produced by Ian McDougall
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
GILBERT PHELPS introduces letters from today's postbag
Ten programmes concerned with the future of Man
7: The Empire of the Machines
Contributors include:
Amos DE-SHALIT
Director-General of the Weizmann Institute, Israel
DENNIS GABOR
Professor of Electronic Physics, Imperial College, London
ALEX COMFORT
M.R.C. Gerontology Group, University College, London
Programmes edited and introduced by LORD RITCHIE-CALDER Recording
The Manipulation of Man: Wed.
The Donkey Walk by JAMES RICHARDS
Read by ROGER SNOWDON
Second of ten instalments
† played by JAN HENRIK KAYSER (piano)
