Market trends, news, weather
from MARY McKAY
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK de MANIO
A Search for Humility
Observations collected from students
and Programme News
Revised second edition
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion
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
St. Mary Magdalen
New Every Morning, page 72
With joy we meditate the grace
(BBC H.B. 134)
Psalm 142
St. John 20, w. 1-2. 9-18
Awake, our souls (BBC H.B. 300)
played by the BBC Scottish RADIO Orchestra Leader, Ian Tyre
Conductor, IAIN SUTHERLAND with ROBIN HALL and JIMMIE MACGREGOR
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
by Thor Heyerdahl
A series of ten readings by GARY WATSON
6: Man Overboard
Broadcast on October 8. 1867
Commentaries and reports on matches in the fight for the County Championship
Eric Shipton, mountaineer, discusses with Roy Plomley, in a recorded programme devised by him, the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.
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
Story: ' Happy Birthday ' by Mary Jane Auld
from Steve Race
Produced by David Allan
Further commentaries and reports
The Town That
Lost Its Head by David Hopkins with Bernard Brown
Hector Ross and Peter Pratt
The little village of Bellsborough disliked intensely the idea of amalgamating with its upstart neighbour, Waverley New Town. After all, Bellsborough had been mentioned in the Domesday Book ...
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
Saturday's broadcast
A family magazine introduced from Wales by HARRY SOAN and including:
It's not unusual ... for TOM JONES to be in the hit parade. Today he talks to Gerry Monte
What makes a beauty spot?: HARRY SOAN looks at some Welsh holiday resorts. 3: Along the Monmouth-to-Brecon Canal
Up the mountain: for a picnic With MARGERY HUMBLE
Rounders? Not really! : GARETH BOWEN reports on baseball in Britain
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald abridged for reading in six parts
Storyteller, EFFIE MORRISON with MARGARET Love as the Princess
MAUD RISDON as the Old Lady
3: Irene and the Old Lady
Produced by Gordon Emslie
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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 COLIN HAMILTON
Produced by the South-East news unit
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 RACE with Graham Dalley at the keyboard
From the Royal Albert Hall London
Ambrosian
Singers
New Philharmonia Orchestra Guest leader, Jack Rothstein
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1
S
A look back, with tempered affection, at a career on British railways by G. F. Fiennes, author of "I Tried to Run a Railway", who resigned last year from the General Managership of B.R. Eastern Region.
Tomorrow: "On The Footplate"
Part 2
The Prospectus of the current Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts is available (price Is. 6d., by post 2s. Od... postal orders not stamps please) from BBC Publications (Proms). P.O. Box 1AR. London. W.1; The Royal Albert Hall
KensinKton. S.W.7; and usual agents.
EMILY ANDERSON is interviewed by Denis Stevens about her edition of Beethoven's Letters
Only three or four people in the world can read Beethoven's handwriting with ease, and Miss Anderson spent fifteen years co4-lecting and translating this edition of Beethoven's correspondence.
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
GILBERT PHELPS 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] dictate your message
The Darling Buds of May by H. E. BATES
Read by ROGER SNOWDON
Sixth of ten instalments
RUDOLF ZARTNER, EMIL SEILER BACH ORCHESTRA OF BERLIN Conducted by CARL GORVIN gramophone record