Market trends, news, weather
from C. A. JOYCE
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
recalled by Winifred Eastment.
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
German for Beginners
(A radio vision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio)
Decisive Events
The Sailing of the Mayflower
Religious persecution under
James I inspired thousands of British families to cross the North Atlantic and to make their homes in a wilderness of trees and rocks. The tale of the Mayflower is told here mainly in the words of one of them, William Bradford.
Script by R. M. Neill-Hall
New Every Morning, page 83
0 Word of God incarnate (BBC
H.B. 191)
Psalm 33, vv. 1-12
St. Matthew 26, v. 69, to 27, v. 5
Spread. 0 spread, thou mighty word (BBC H.B. 182)
9: La t'edette
Written by Emile Harven
An audiovisual programme
9: Du va-et-vient chez les Bousquet
Written by Max Bellancourt
1 Third-year French
Introduced by WILLIAM APPLEBY
Songs: Tyrolean Cradle Song; Hungarian Carol; Bring a torch. Jeannette, Isabella: Little Bull
Produced by Douglas Coombes
Man and the Seasons
6: ' anyone lived in a pretty how town '
Introduced by DEREK BOWSKILL
A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life
The Sawdust Poet
David Millward , part-time poet-writer and full-time labourer, talks to TOM COYNE about his writing and about his job in a Black Country sawmill where coffin lids are one of the main products
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
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The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM DAVIS
Friday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story: ' The Ten
Pussycats ' by Hilary Stebbing
St. George and Bold Slasher
Second rehearsal of a mummers' play
Script by.Jenyth Worsley
by GORDON REYNOLDS with Mari GRIFFITH (guitar)
Produced by Albert Chatterley
A scene from the play Billy Budd by L. O. Coxe and R. Chapman.
Three young naval officers face up to the nature of their own authority.
Speak scries
for the nine-to-eleven-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS
Miming games in slow motion and at normal speed; Odysseus and the Cyclops
A series of ten programmes designed to help and encourage those who wish to express themselves more effectively or recapture old skills in the spoken and written word.
Written and introduced by Carol Robson
Old Acquaintance by John van Druten
Saturday's broadcast
A family magazine introduced by POLLY ELWES Fact or Fantasy, which would you rather?: ELIZABETH SEAGER suggests books of both kinds
Just a Squirt: GORDON Gow looks at the increasing range of domestic and industrial products packed in aerosols
Off the Footplate into the Fire:
KENNETH STOKES was a railway fireman but his good turn was misinterpreted f No Barriers: StSTER ROSE
GRAHAM was a member of the Red Cross Society relief team in Malaya. She talks to Tony Parker about her work for both sides during the terrorist emergency
Hold very tight please: some memories of a bus conductor by W. E. WATERS
Tales from the Arabian Nights edited by Naomi Lewis
* Read by JOHN WESTBROOK
2: In which, in accordance with destiny, Sindbad the Porter is received and entertained by Sindbad the Sailor.
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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
Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 p.m.
A panel game from the Midlands devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES. DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, JACK LONGLAND
Recorded before an invited audience at The Commonwealth Institute. London
Repeated: Sunday, 12.25 p.m.
introduced by Jack Brymer played by RAYMOND COHEN (violin)
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader, John Bacon
Conducted by DAVID LITTAUR including
A new history play for radio by Lydia Ragosin
with Joss Ackland, Murray Melvin
An accident or murder? The death of William Rufus while hunting in the New Forest remains a mystery; but there is one theory perhaps more sinister than any other ...
Friends of the King:
The action takes place in England and France in the reign of William Rufus between 1093. and 1100
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
(Joss Ackland is in "Hotel in Amsterdam" at the New Theatre, London)
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The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER TAPLIN introduces
. letters from today's postbag
Three Men in a Boat
To say nothing of the dog by JEROME K. JEROME abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by RICHARD BRIERS
Produced by John Cardy
First of ten instalments Richard Briers is in ' The Real
Inspector Hound ' at the Criterion Theatre. London
George said, 'Let's go up the river.' Harris and I both said that was a good idea of George's. and we said it in a tone that seemed to somehow imply that we were surprised that George should have come out so sensible. The only one who was not struck with the suggestion was Montmorency (the dog). He never did care for the river, did Montmorency. We were three to one, however, and the motion was carried.
PAUL KUENTZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by PAUL KUENTZ EDUARD MÜLLER SCHOLA CANTORUM BASILIENSIS Conducted by AUGUST WENZINGER HEINZ ZICKLER MAINZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by GÜNTER KEHR gramophone records
