Market trends, news, weather
Ɨ from C. A. JOYCE
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
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A Season of Sermons
1: 'The world is a sea' by John Donne
Reader. JOSEPH O'CONOR
and Programme News
Revised second edition
Comedians don'enjoy a monopoly of laughter. Gale PEDRICK reminds us of events and trends which, over the years, have made us laugh at ourselves.
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 96
Come, Holy Ghost (BBC H.B. 151) Psalm 82
Romans 2. vv. 25-39
The star of morn has risen (BBC
H.B. 410)
ORCHESTRA
Leader, Maurice Brett
Conducted by MERRICK FARRAN with ROBIN HALL and JIMMIE MACGREGOR
Introduced by ALEXANDER MOYES
A series of five morning plays
1:The Colonel and the Goat
Adapted by EAMONN KEANE from A Comedy in Capricorn by MORLEY ROBERTS with John Phillips
The marriage-market and animal-loving in unexpected juxtaposition lead to a smashing time.
Produced by R. D. SMITH
A monthly programme reflecting life in the country with a Natural History contribution by ERIC SIMMS
Introduced by C. GORDON GLOVER
Produced by Arthur Phillips
Edward Chapman 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
Story: 'Lucy and the Six
Black Cats' by Adeline Hesketh-Gibson
from Steve Race
Produced by David Allan
Ɨ by GEORGE TARGET
It's one thing to kill one of the enemy in a little village in North Africa. It's another thing to go and find his mother and daughter after the war. But perhaps ' after ' is really the wrong word; in some ways, the war has never ended.
Isabel Jeans, Margaret Rawlings Robert Hardy , and Carol Marsh in Gigi by Colette translated from the French and adapted for radio by BARBARA BRAY
The scene: Paris. 1899
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES with a selection of music from the sound-track of the M.G.M. film of Gigi
Saturday's broadcast
A family magazine introduced by Ken Sykora and including:
South Pacific: Tony Black visits Norfolk Island, a former penal colony and now a tourist paradise
'Portrait of Elgar': The author Michael Kennedy discusses the real Elgar with Alan Haydock
Books for the Beach: some holiday reading suggested by Gilbert Phelps
Wife of Steptoe: Mrs. B. Dalloway talks about what it's like being married to a scrap-metal merchant
Bringing home the prize: Mary Anderson recalls winning a potted plant on a windy night
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald abridged for reading in six parts
Storyteller, EFFIE MORRISON
4: Curdie is captured
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 BOA HOLNESS
Produced by the South-East news unit
or Put on your shorts and live
A comedy anthology featuring:
PETER USTINOV
MICHAEL BENTINE
MICHAEL FLANDERS
TONY FAYNE , AL READ
I'M SORRY I'LL READ THAT AGAIN
Written and introduced by Basil Boothroyd
Produced bv David Hatch and Simon Brett
A programme of records featuring Viennese operettas, polkas, waltzes, and folk songs Introduced bv
MARTIN MUNCASTER
Produced by Robin Richmond
by Willis Hall
'It might mean that they've broken through, up country, and are pouring down... They might be swarming out there now - like ants. And if they are and I'm with crumbs like you. I'm up the creek myself, and that's a fact.'
Cast in order of speaking: [see below]
The action of the play takes place in the Malayan jungle during the Japanese advance on Singapore, early in 1942.
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The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Ɨ GILBERT PHELPS introduces letters from today's postbag
General John Regan by GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM abridged by Neville Teller
Read by ALLAN MCCLELLAND
Produced by John Cardy
First of ten instalments
If the American visitor expected to see a statue to General John Regan , a statue he should have. If this sleepy corner of Ireland was the great man's birthplace. the local inhabitants would be delighted to oblige. But who exactly was General John Regan ?
Oiseau-Lyre ORCHESTRAL ENSEMBLE Conducted by LOUIS DE FROMENT gramophone records
