Market trends, news, weather
from MARY DENYER
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK de MANIO
Recollections from C.A. Joyce.
and Programme News
Revised second edition of the breakfast-time magazine
DAVID FRANKLIN looks at the deceptively peaceful scene of English village life
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
Reports from Britain and overseas
Revised edition of Sunday's broadcast
The Jameson Raid , 1895
Dr. Jameson's raid on Johannesburg in 1895 was an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Boer Government of the Transvaal. It damaged not only the reputation of Cecil Rhodes , the Prime Minister of Cape Colony, whose close friend Jameson was, but sowed the seeds of the South African War.
Script by Cameron Miller
New Every Morning, page 58
Stand up and bless the Lord (BBC
H.B. 268)
Psalm 119. pt. 3
Mark 8, v. 27. to 9, v. 1 (Jerusalem)
Take up thy cross (BBC H.B. 369)
Written by Milo Sperber
Intermediate German series
Lesson 22:
Une surprise desagreable
Written by Raymond Escoffey
A radiovision programme
by WILLIAM APPLEBY
Songs: Men of Harlech; Hieland
Laddie; My own pretty boy
The Growth of Man
8: The Struggle for Existence
DEREK BOWSKILL presents the ninth programme of the term in this creative drama series
Pictures in Sound Quiz <i) by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
Philharmonic Factotum
SIDNEY HARRISON 'S tirst professor of piano was Francesco Berger who had been the Secretary of the Royal Philharmonic Society for twenty-seven of its most fruitful years. Mr. Harrison talks abuut Berber's teaching and the now largely forgotten world of music from which he came.
Produced by Denys Gueroult
Dan Smith
Chairman of the Northern Economic Planning Council with Roy PLOMLEY
Shortened version. oi Saturday's broadcast
and Programme News
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM DAVIS
Friday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story: 'The Clock that went on Strike ' by Elizabeth Hamilton
Script by Philip Guard
Springboard series
by GORDON REYNOLDS
Produced by Albert Chatterley
An excerpt from the play Sparrers Can'Sing by Stephen Lewis
A relieving officer discovers an old-age pensioner has undeclared earnings.
Speak series
for the nine-to-eleven-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS
Movement to woodwind instruments. Introduction to a fugue by Alan Paul
A miscellany of excerpts from late sixteenth-century handbooks, arranged and introduced by MAURICE HUSSEY and read by Hugh Dickson and Harvey Hall
The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene adapted from his film story by CHARLES HATTON
Richard Pasco , Rachel Gurney and Judi Dench with J. England as Felipe
' Macgregor! He isn'there. It's Mrs. Baines ... She killed him. I hate her. She killed Macgregor. ... 1 wish she was dead too.'
Produced by RONALD MASON
Saturday's broadcast
A family magazine introduced from the North by Barry Chambers
Ladies a-n-d Gentlemen - for your D-e-l-i-g-h-t!: Peter Wheeler goes behind the scenes of The Good Old Days at the Famous City Varieties, Leeds, and talks to Leonard Sachs (chairman), Barney Colehan (producer), Sheila Buxton, and others who help to make this a unique Television series.
I haven't a Car: 'Now they all have them, they just fly past and sometimes don't even wave'... Marjorie Wilkinson comments on the loneliness the car has brought to suburban life.
To Elegant Recreation:
Yvonne Adamson tells the story of the Old Assembly Rooms, Newcastle upon Tyne
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen translated from the Danish by R. P. KEIGWIN
Read by DAVID DAVIS
5: The Princess and The Pea
The Nightingale
and Programme News
Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard Calling-South-East Sport — MICHAEL BROOKE looks at listeners' letters in Postscript
Introduced by COLIN HAMILTON
Produced by the South-East news unit
Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 p.m.
Listeners' letters and points of difference aired by RENÉE HOUSTON, SHEILA VAN DAMM
JOAN BAKEWELL , ANN NIGHTINGALE
In the chair, ANONA WINN
Devised by Anona Winn and Ian Messiter
Announcer, Angela Buckland
Produced by John Cassels
Pre-recorded at The Playhouse. Northumberland Avenue, London, W.C.2
Shortened version: Thurs., 12 noon
A social history in song.
Those taking part: Joanne Browne, Charles Young, Charles West, Harry Landis, Ann Murray, The Rita Williams Singers
Radio Orchestra conducted by Alfred Ralston
The Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
June 28, 1919 recalled by W. N. Ewer
He talks to MICHAEL DIAMOND about that historic occasion at Versailles which formally brought the First World War to an end and which he attended as a young reporter for the London Daily Herald.
Broadcast in the BBC World Service
Repeated: Friday, 4.30 p.m.
A satire by Charles Macklin adapted for radio by IAIN CUTHBERTSON with lain Cuthbertson, Una McLean and Michael Meacham
' Scotchmen, sir, wherever they meet throughout all the globe should unite and stick together. as it were, in a political phalanx....'
Music composed by FRANK SPEDDING and played by a section of the BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conductor, JAMES LOUGHRAN
The play is set in Barnet. in 1781 Produced by STEWART CONN
Michael Meacham and Roy Boutcher broadcast by arrangement with the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow
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The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER JAMES introduces this edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
For very late letters you can ring [number removed]and dictate your message
Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE
Book 2: The Reckoning
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Sixth of fifteen instalments
PARIS ANTIQUA MUSICA with PIERRE PIERLOT (Oboe)
ANNIE CHALLAN (harp) gramophone records
