Market trends, news, weather
from C. A. JOYCE
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Fifth in a series of personal recollections.
and Programme News
Revised second edition
from the BBC Sound Archives
April
Recalled by HAROLD ABRAHAMS
by ALISTAIR Cooke
Sunday's broadcast
Reports from Britain and overseas Revised edition of Sunday's broadcast
A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life
' The Bolshie'
Jameson Clark speaks with GEORGE ROBERTSON , sawmiller of Eshiels, Peeblesshire
New Every Morning, page 1
0 God, thou art my God alone
(BBC H.B. 468)
Psalm 3
Mark 12, vv. 12-27 (Jerusalem)
The God of Abraham praise (BBC
H.B. 283)
played by the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA Leader,lan Tyre
Conductor, Iain SUTHERLAND with JAMES HucHES (harmonica) Harold Rich (piano)
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
The book by GEOFFREY MORGAN adapted as a serial reading in five parts by the author
Read by RICHARD HURNDALL
1:The Visitor
Behind the East End junkyardsurrounded by factories, hoard-inns, and high walls-was a garden. Helped by his young friend Joe. Mr. Penny had created a small piece of paradise-a garden in a wilderness.
Broadcast on October 12. 1967
Post ante meridian
A transcendental ' thtnk in ' conducted by Swahi JOHN EBDON
Produced by Denys Gueroult
Alfie Bass discusses with Roy Plomley, in a recorded programme devised by him, the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.
(Alfie Bass is in 'Fiddler on the Roof' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)
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The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM DAVIS
Friday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Story: ' Paul and the Swan ' by Joane Rose
from Steve Race including a selection from the ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON
Produced by David Allan
Second of two talks by Diana Lodge
'If anyone asked me what was the happiest time of my life, I would tell them of three weeks I spent alone on an island rock in the Irish Sea, cut off from the mainland by six miles of tidal race.'
Edith Evans Festival
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde with Edith Evans and John Gielgud
Saturday's broadcast
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
' Life with Queen Victoria ':
Jack Singleton talks to SIR VICTOR MALLET , whose mother's letters-she was a Maid of Honour at Court-are published today
Clean Bill of Health:
LESLIE SMITH meets the Public Health Inspector
Encounter in Berlin:
PETER VARGAS has an assignation at the Zoo Hauptbahnhof
To Sarah with Love:
ELIZABETH SEAGER chooses a book of poems for her godchild
COMPETITION
Listeners are invited to write a poem or short talk. The poem should be no longer than sixteen lines and should include the phrase Bridle Path to Wendens Ambomagical words which occur on an Essex signpost. The subject of the prose piece should be A Turning Point in My Life-maximum length 450 words.
Send your entry, marked Competition to Home This Afternoon, BBC, P.O. Box 1AA, London, W.1, by Hay 12. As weJl as the usual money prizes the winner will be offered the Cecil Hunt Scholarship , a free week at the Writers' Summer School in Derbyshire.
by Susan Coolidge abridged in ten parts by Rosemary Colley
2: Aunt Izzie is provoked
Read by MARGARET RoBERTSON
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Regional news-The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard Calling-South-East Sport -MICHAEL Brooke looks at listeners' letters in Postscript Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit
A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
DILYS POWELL and Frank MUIR challenge
ANNE Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair, Jack Longland
CELIA IRVING explores, with records, the world of ballet-its creators, its dancers, and its music
by Lewis Jones with Leslie Sands , Avis Bunnage Marjorie Westbury
Still waters run deep-and the placid surface of the domestic pond waits only for a passing storm to ruffle it and stir its mud.
Cast:
Produced by ARCHIE Campcell
Avis Bunnage is in ' Fiddler on the Roof ' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
LESLIE SMITH introduces letters from today's postbag
The Flight of the Phoenix by Elleston Trevor abridged by H. R. F. Keating Read by Alan Badel
Produced by George Angell
First of fifteen instalments
An aircraft with a crew of two and twelve passengers is forced down in the Sahara Desert. With no hope of being rescued, with hardly any water, the survivors face the tierce light of the sun and the dreadful silence of the desert, determined to survive when survival seems impossible.
Jean-Francois PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by Jean-Francois PAILLARD gramophone records
