Market trends, news, weather
Thursdays 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at Jife around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK de MANIO
Prayer and Meditation
Led by THE REV. J. G. MATHESON
and Programme News
Revised second edition of the breakfast-time magazine
by FLORENCE MARY MCDOWELL abridged by Neville Teller
Read by MARY O'FARRELL
Produced by John Cardy
Last of five instalments
A comedy anthology
Saturday's broadcast
2: In small places, close to home
The year 1968 is being celebrated throughout the world as the twentieth anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Two special broadcasts for schools examine the ideals that inspired the Declaration, and the realities that conflict with those ideals in the world and in Britain today.
GEORGE HITCHIN describes the Irish Back Street and its characters, and in particular Michael-' not Mike or Mick, but Michael '-
Reilly Michael was a miner and a poet. though he could not read or write; he was ' one of those rich people you find in every social group ... he was like a crystal on a slag heap ... '
New Every Morning, page 41
0 for a thousand tongues
(BBC H.B. 278)
Psalm 32
Colossians 3, vv. 12-17 (N.E.B.)
Fight the good fight (BBC H.B.
302)
played by the LONDON STUDIO STRINGS
Conducted by WILLIAM DAVIES with JAMES HUGHES (harmonica)
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
A group of five morning plays performed by the BBC Drama Repertory Company 5: Taking the Plunge by Leonard Webb
1 My aunt saw it first, she came rushing up to my bedroom with it-I nearly died when I saw it-I could have killed you, Robert, if you'd walked in at that moment I would have thrown the breadknife at you! '
Produced by GERRY JONES
GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
Edited version: Sunday, 11.15 a.m.
and Programme News
and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Thursday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story:
' Penelope Mouse 's Pixie' by Wendy Wilkin
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, Marcus DODS
Every Friday this programme looks at educational opportunities for housewives and some of the possibilities for women returning to work.
Introduced by CAROLINE NICHOLSON and MICHAEL SMEE
Produced by Peter Jarvis
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to some of the views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions? from Gloucester
Thursday's broadcast on Radio 2 (Light)
Highlights from the Sunday show including:
Celebrities in the News
This week's current release:
Follow that Camel starring
PHIL SILVERS , KENNETH Williams CHARLES HAWTREY , JIM DALE
JOAN SIMS , PETER BUTTERWORTH
Script and adaptation by Lyn Fairhurst
Introduced by PETER HAIGH
Produced by John Dyas
Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast on Radio 2 (Light)
A family magazine introduced from Northern Ireland by MICHAEL BAGULEY and helped along with some jolly Irish music including:
The Story of Lia: THE VERY
REV. CUTHBERT PEACOCKE tells about the murder of a young friend and plays some recordings of a beautiful soprano voice now lost
Life Begins at Sixty:
ALAN Lowry tells Annette Marshall how Denmark helps ' senior citizens ' to avoid ' old age '
The day I burned my novel: even after seventeen rejections ELSIE PATTON finds it hard to put an end to her Magnum Opus
O'Bannion's Buttons: a story from Bermuda where young James Crichton on a secret expedition was betrayed by peppermints of extraordinary power and pungency
Sketches of life in the metropolis during the last century selected by DEREK PARKER from the writings of Charles Dickens
5: London Theatres
Read by FRASER KERR
and Programme News
Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines-Live ' rush-hour traffic reports -Scotland Yard Calling-This week's Name in the News-Sports Spot-FRED STREETER on Gardening
Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit
with Records for You
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Isobel Barnett, Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Bettine Le Beau try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
Devised by Ian Messiter
Produced by David Hatch
Pre-recorded at The Piccadilly, 201 Piccadilly, London W1.
(Nicholas Parsons is in "Uproar in the House" at the Whitehall Theatre; Derek Nimmo in "Charlie Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre, London.)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Leader, Felix Kok
Conducted by Harold Gray
Part 1
JOHN Lowe , Director of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, talks about his visit to Japan last year with a collection of English nineteenth-century paintings for an exhibition in Tokyo's leading departmental store.
Part 2
A weekly magazine of discovery and invention
News and views of the men and women whose achievements are going to affect our daily life
Introduced by GERALD LEACH A Science Unit production
The News
Background to the News ' People in the News J followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by BRIAN CONNELL
Ten programmes concerned with the future of Man
10: Who are the Custodians?
Contributors include:
DR. Linus PAULING DR. ALEX COMFORT DR. AMOS DE-SHALIT DR. HERMANN BONDI
PROFESSOR KENNETH DONALD
Programmes edited and introduced by Lord RITCHIE-CALDER
Series produced by Rex Keating of Unesco Radio
Recording
The Donkey Walk by JAMES RICHARDS
Read by ROGER SNOWDON
† Fifth of ten instalments
Mendelssohn
Sextet in D major, Op. 110 Members of the GUILET STRING QUARTET with NATHAN GORDON (viola) PHILIP SKLAR (double-bass) and MENAHEM PRESSLER (piano) gramophone record
