Market trends, news. weather
from MAURICE HARDY
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
A Search for Humility
Observations collected from people at work
and Programme News
Revised second edition
DAVID FRANKLIN discovers in the BBC Sound Archives that some people have the most extraordinary rights and will defend them to the end
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
Reports from Britain and overseas
Revised edition of Sunday's broadcast
For the expert, the novice, and anyone who simply likes ' messing about in boats '
Introduced by PETER WHEELER
Produced by Don Mosey
New Every Morning, page 50
How lovely are thy dwellings fair
(BBC H.B. 458)
Psalm 150
Hosea 2, vv. 1-5 and 9-20 Rise up, 0 men of God (BBC H.B.
364)
played by the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO Orchestra Leader, Ian Tyre
Conductor, lAIN SUTHERLAND with TOMMY REILLY (harmonica) JAMES MOODY (piano)
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
by Thor Heyerdahl translated by F. H. LYON and abridged by NAN MACDONALD
A series of ten readings by Gary Watson
1: An Expedition is Born
Produced by Bennett Maxwell
Broadcast in Story Time beginning on September 1. 1967 Thor Heyerdahl, following a theory that the first primitive men who had come to the Polynesian islands were in fact from South America. set sail from Peru on April 28, 1947, with five companions on a tiny raft in the hope of reaching the nearest islands more than 4,000 miles away. Their adventure is told in this series of readings.
Ireland Revisited
Jimmy HANLEY recently went fishing in some lesser-known parts of Ireland that he has not seen for more than ten years, and today he looks at some of the changes that have taken place
Produced by David Allan
Thora Hird discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island.
(Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m.)
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
' Tales of Joe and Timothy' by DOROTHY EDWARDS
1: Making Friends
from Steve Race
Produced by David Allan
H. COLIN DAVIS remembers taking a girl out for the first time. He was then a green and impecunious medical student; the girl was a nurse, and the evening ended in humiliation and disaster
in Pygmalion
A romance by Bernard Shaw with Mark Dignam , Daphne Newton Francis de Wolff and Sylvia Coleridge
The play adapted for radio and produced by JOHN POWELL
Saturday's broadcast
See page 32
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
' Under thy shade we flourish ':
NADIA CATTHOUSE talks to Jack Singleton about her country,
British Honduras—the land of the mahogany tree-and its people, and sings some of its songs
Grock: a new look at an old clown by MATTHEW NORGATE
Words, words, words: STELLA
RODWAY suggests some new books for your reading list The eye that never sleeps: St. John Howell meets GEORGE TAYLOR, one of the few glass-eye makers left
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald abridged for reading in six parts
Storyteller, EFFIE MORRISON with JOHN SHEDDEN as Helfer ARTHUR BOLAND as Glump
2: Curdie meets the goblins
Produced by Gordon Emslie
and Programme News
Tonight's evening paper of the air
Reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard-Sportsdesk — Postscript with MICHAEL BROOKE -Stop Press
Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit
Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 p.m.
A musical quiz devised by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane
DAVID FRANKLIN and FRANK MUIR challenge
IAN WALLACE and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, STEVE Rack with Graham Dalley at the keyboard
Repeated; Sunday, 12.25 p.m.
A programme of records featuring Viennese operettas. polkas, waltzes, and folk songs
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Produced by Robin Richmond
The Gambler
The novel by Dostoevsky adapted for radio by ERIC EWENS from a translation by CONSTANCE GARNETT with Catherine Lacey Andrew Sachs
Patricia Gallimore
The year 1866: the diary of a young man reveals the agony of a compulsive gambler....
Cast m order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
See page 32
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
GILES PLAYFAIR 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
The Darling Buds of May by H. E. BATES abridged by Cristina Sellors
Read by ROGER SNOWDON
Produced by John Cardy
First of ten instalments
The Larkins are a happy family living on the fat of the land. though Pup Larkin 's occupation is hard to define and he has never filed a tax return. So the taxmail calls and the struggle begins between bureaucracy and the LarkiB Way of Life. Truth to tell, it's a very one-sided struggle ...
ACADEMY OF
ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
Directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (violin)
gramophone records
