Market trends, news, weather
Prayer and meditation
Friday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
A weekly review of the agricultural scene
Produced by Anthony Parkin
Repeated: Wednesday, 12.25 p.m. (Midland and West Home Services)
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
and Programme News
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
Revised edition: Tuesday, 9.5 a.m.
What the weeklies think. illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by HONOR BALFOUR
Parliamentarians scrutinise the week's work at Westminster and discuss what is making an impact on the world of politics
ROBERT CARVEL takes the chair
Introduced by Roy HAY featuring items of news, views, replies to listeners' queries, and topical advice to help the amateur gardener
Produced by John Greenslade
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
New Every Morning, page 68
Father, we thank thee (BBC
H.B. 201)
Psalm 148
Ephesians 2, vv. 18-22; 3, vv.
14-21
Christ is our corner-stone
(BBC H.B. 258)
Starting Spanish
A series of forty lessons for beginners or near beginners
Lesson 16: El Senor Molina no quiere hacer nada
Presented by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A 192-page book is available
A series of twenty-one programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. A-level examination in English, planned in association with a National Extension College correspondence course.
15: Nymphs and Shepherds
Radio tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
Last Monday's broadcast (Study)
A series of fifteen magazine-type programmes, including French songs and readings from the Penguin book of French Short Stories and The Penguin Book of French Nineteenth Century Verse, for listeners with some knowledge of French.
Programme 1
Speakers, PAULETTE PRENEY
Louis BLONCOURT , PAUL COUSTER
Last Tuesday's broadcast (Study)
A weekly survey of the world of motoring
Measuring a Skid: part of the Road Research Laboratory's work in improving road surfaces
Motoring Journalist: an honest assessment of an honest job
Petrol: What does it do?: a simple explanation of the properties of motor fuel together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim Pestridge
Listen at leisure to selected star items from the week's editions of radio's famous breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN
and Programme News
A panel game controlled(!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Prunella Scales, Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that 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.)
John Mortimer: playwright, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.
(Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m.)
There are Gypsies at the Bottom of our Garden by Clifford Buttrey with Frederick Treves
' The parents are very concerned about this situation, and you are the only person who can put things right. So take a word of advice, get those gypsies moving, because if anything happens ...
Produced by GERRY JONES
A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
My kind of Poet: JANET TEISSIER DU CROS talks about the work of W. B. Yeats
Autumn in the Country: Eric Simms with some sounds of wild life
Men and women are equal, my foot: a view from BA MASON
Design in the Home: dropping in on a Good Housekeeping Institute forum
Back o'Bourke: DODIE COATES plans an Australian journey
When Somerset Maugham came to Lunch: a lifelong friend, BARBARA BACK, talks to Molly Scobie
gramophone records
A radio competition for bands
Round 1: programme 3 Scottish C.W.S. Band
Conductor, ROBERT OUGHTON v.
Wingates Temperance Band Conductor, HUGH PARRY
Adjudicators:
LT.-COL. (Retd.)
DOUGLAS A. POPE , O.B.E.
GILBERT VINTER
FRANK WRIGHT
Introduced by JOHN DUNN
Produced by William Relton
and Programme News
Produced by Godfrey Dixey
The game that turns the pages of show-biz history with SHEILA HANCOCK , ALFIE BASS
GEORGE MELLY , WARREN MITCHELL
Chairman, BARRY TOOK
Programme devised and compiled by Denis Gifford
Produced by John Simmonds
Broadcast on July 30 (Light)
from the Civic Hall Grays, Essex
MARcus DODS conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with RAE WOODLAND (soprano) JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor) ERICH GRUENBERG (violin)
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON Produced by Gareth Walters
The programme includes music from Madam Butterfly (Puccini) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn), and La Gioconda (Ponchielli); and the Introduction and Rondo capriccioso for violin and orchestra by Saint-Saens In association with Thurrock Urban District Council
Beautiful For Ever by Elizabeth Jenkins adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Ellen Pollock , Belle Chrystall and Fabia Drake
The dubious activities of a certain Madame Rachel , proprietress of a fashionable Beauty Salon, were the subject of a celebrated trial at the Old Bailey in mid-Victorian London.
Clients of Madame Rachel:
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
The Place: A shop in New Bond Street in the year 1864.
Ϯ BRIAN REDHEAD discusses some topical matters and some less topical with MARY GOLDRING
Business Editor of The Economist
DR. H. M. FINNISTON Deputy Chairman of the National Steel Corporation
DR. DUNCAN DAVIES Deputy Chairman of I.C.I. Mond Division
Evening Prayers conducted by FR. JOHN STAPLETON with the Barlow Singers directed by Michael Callaghan
played by RONALD THOMAS (violin) MARTIN JONES (piano)
