from C. A. Joyce
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
A Search for Humility
† GRAHAM FAIRBAIRN recalls a welcome in Peshawar
and Programme News
Revised second edition
* by Charles Chaplin The story of the greatest film comedian of them all, by himself
Abridged by Peter Bartlett
Read by CHARLES LENO
Produced by John Cardy
First of twenty instalments
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 1
Glorious things of thee are spoken
(BBC H.B. 176)
Psalm 63
Ecclesiastes 9, vv. 11-18
Oft in danger (BBC H.B. 363)
with the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILLI Boskovsky gramophone records
GALE PEDRICK considers the changes in style, in content, in language-but not in the intention of making you laugh-over thirty years of radio and television comedy Aptly illustrated in high-, middle-, and low-fidelity recordings in the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by Denys Gueroult
See page 35
Dame Ngaio Marsh, novelist, 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
THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA gramophone records *
Prisoner's Friend
A play for radio by Mollie Hardwick from the novel by Andrew Garve with Patrick Barr
Ursula Howells , Glyn Dearman When young Terry Booth leaves prison, Robert Ashe. a prison visitor. gets him a job with a garage in Sussex. Then one day a desk in the manager's office shows signs that someone has tried to force the lock ...
Other parts: Kathleen Helme
Arthur Lawrence. Frank Partington
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON
Broadcast on Sept. 26. 1964
A family magazine
Guest compère,
Basil Boothroyd
Compere's guest, Joan Bakewell
Fascinating Rhythm:
DEREK PARKER takes a look at some of the music and musicals of the twenties
Tales of a Highland Vet:
GAVIN MCGREGOR recalls when he was left in charge of a croft
Underwater Beat:
ST. JOHN HOWELL Visits the Midland police frogmen's unit
Dodie Smith 's Dalmatians
Her novels 101 Dalmatians and Starlight Barking abridged by Marjorie Bilbow
Read by GRIZELDA HERVEY
Pongo and Missis have discovered that not just their own fifteen Dalmatian puppies but altogether nearly a hundred are being held prisoner at Hell Hall in Suffolk. Somehow aU must be rescued.
3: The Escape from Hell Hall
and Programme News
Produced by Godfrey Dixey
Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 p.m.
or From bed to nurse
A comedy anthology featuring:
Peter COOK , STANLEY HOLLOWAY
TONY HANCOCK , JOYCE GRENFELL
Al READ
MIKE NICHOLS AND ELAINE MAY
I'M SORRY I'LL READ THAT AGAIN
Written and introduced by Basil Boothroyd
Produced by David Hatch and Simon Brett
From the Royal Albert Hall London
Alfred Brendel
(piano)
Heather Harper (soprano)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Royal Choral Society
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader. Neville Taweel
Conducted by Charles Groves
Part I
KINGSLEY MARTIN recalls some of the sixty countries he has visited in the light of some of the mementoes he sees around him
.1: The Hindu World
Part 2 followed by an interlude at 9.50
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
TONY BROWN introduces letters from today's postbag
HAMISH GRAY works at the Institute of Economic Affairs where for two years he has been studying the British housing market with F. G. Pen nance. Together they recently published Choice in Housing, which studied people's preferences, and discovered that most of the electorate oppose present policies. Mr. Gray believes that public housing policy is damaging the British economy and that the time is ripe for reform.
Wives and Daughters by MRS. GASKELL abridged by Rosamond Shaw
Read by JILL BALCON
Sixteenth of twenty-five Instalments
MAURICE ALLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF VERSAILLES Conducted by BERNARD WAHL Archiv CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by WOLFGANG HOFMANN gramophone records