Market trends, news, weather
(Monday's "Ten to Eight")
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
By Request
Reflecting listeners' choice in music and speech
and Programme News
Revised second edition
by CHARLES CHAPLIN abridged by Peter Bartlett
Read by CHARLES LENO
Produced by John Cardy
Last instalment
BBC Correspondents talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
Revised edition of Saturday's broad. cast
My faith, it is an oaken staff
(Tune, Staff of Faith-BBC H.P.S.N. 10, Teachers' edition)
Story: The Dunkirk Rescue The Prayer for Peace
As Jacob with travel was weary
(Tune, Jacob's Ladder-BBC H.P.S.N. 2, Teachers' edition)
Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 a.m.
Singing Family
Written by Sam Hanna Bell
New Every Morning. page 1
Through all the changing scenes of life (BBC H.B. 481)
Psalm 3
Matthew 12, vv. 1-13
A stranger once did bless the earth (BBC H.B. 70)
from one country to another
Illustrated with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Written by Marianne Walla
Intermediate German series
by PENNY
WHITTAM Music selected and arranged by Vera Gray
The Hobby Horse leads the Morris Dance and the rich merchant pursues his lordly way
Songs: The Dance of the Morris
Men; The Merchant
Written and produced by William Murphy
War: The Voice of the Poet
A selection of poems compiled by CHRISTOPHER PRICE
Produced by Ralph Rolls
Sixth Form series: Religion in Its
Contemporary Context
A male reply to Petticoat Line
Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast
'twixt Isobel Barnett, Eleanor Summerfield and Richard Murdoch, David Nixon
with some tune-twisters from Steve Race
In the chair, Roy Plomley
(Broadcast on May 12, Radio 2)
and Programme News
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Monday evening's broadcast
Story: ' Miranda at the Zoo' by Christine Madin
A story of eight shameless ancient Egyptians, taken from the papyrus record of their trial (1100 B.C.)
Written by Phyllis Drayson
World History series
The second of three programmes by GORDON REYNOLDS on Bizet's Suite L'Arlésienne
Produced by Jenyth Worsley
Steel from Mo-l-Rana by Alex Hunter
Geography
or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien
An epic of high adventure adapted as a serial for radio in eight parts by MICHAEL KILGARRIFF with music by DAVID CAIN
Paul Daneman as Bilbo Baggins
1: A Unexpected Party
Sunday's broadcast
CELIA IRVING explores, with records. the world of ballet-its creators, its dancers, and its music
Sunday's broadcast
A family magazine introduced by Ken Sykora and including:
Millionaire M.P.: Robert Maxwell, publisher and Member of Parliament, talks to John Ellison about the turning points in his life
'Aces, All Aces': some memories of the actor Sir Charles Hawtrey by Matthew Norgate
Finoggling: Gordn Savage introduces a gentle art
Journey Back from Loneliness: a personal expedition by H.C. Case
Drop us a line: your news, views, and memories
Who Killed Charlie Winpole ? by Ernest Bramah tReader, CARLETON HOBBS
The second of eight
Stories of Crime and Detection selected and arranged for radio by Neville Teller
and Programme News
Tonight's evening paper of the air
Reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard-Sportsdesk-Stop Press
Introduced by Douglas CAMERON
Repeated: Wednesday, 1.30 p.m.
Adapted for radio in twenty parts by Val Gielgud from four of the Hornblower books by C. S. Forester with John Westbrook as Lord Horatio Hornblower
BOOK 1:
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
2: The Cargo of Rice
Produced by TREVOR HILL
Problems from listeners' letters discussed by RENÉE HOUSTON, MARY STOCKS CHARMIAN INNES
BEVERLY PHILPOTTS
In the chair, ANONA WINN
Devised by Anona Winn and Ian Messiter
Produced by John Cassels
Pre-recorded at The Playhouse.
Northumberland Avenue. London. W.C.2
Repeated. Thursday, 12.25 p.m. ' Be Reasonable.' a male reply: Saturday at 7.0 p.m. and next Tuesday at 12 noon
JOHN McCAW (clarinet) BBC WELSH Orchestra Leader, John Bacon
Conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN
Overture: Semiramide Rossini
Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall. Broadcasting House. Llandaff. Cardiff
Harold Abrahams , the only Englishman ever to win a Gold Medal for the Olympic 100 metres, introduces some famous Gold Medallists from past Olympic Games including:
FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN ,ANN PACKER
MARY RAND . SYDNEY ATKINSON
Chris BRASHER ,LYNN DAVIES
HERR ELLIOTT , TOMMY HAMPSON
A. N. S. JACKSON , KEN MATTHEWS
Jesse OWENS. DON THOMPSON
ARTHUR Wint , and EMIL ZATOPEX
BBC Sound Archive production by Harold Rogers
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
JOHN THOMPSON introduces letters from today's postbag
A look at some of the links in the chain of communication between people and governments in Britain
7: The Press
† HUGH CUDLlPP. Chairman of the Mirror Group, talks to PETER JENKINS about the role of the popular newspaper in politics
Nerve by DICK FRANCIS
Read by HENRY STAMPER
Twelfth of fifteen instalments
Sequence
JOHN HIGHAM (piano)
JENIFER EDDY (soprano) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Songs broadcast on May 1
