Market trends, news. weather
from JOYCE GRENFELL
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Recalled by Kenneth Horne.
and Programme News
Revised second edition
Johnny Morris selects the stories and adds a few of his own
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
German for Beginners
10: Weihnachten
Written and produced by Stephen Kanocz
A radlovision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio
Decisive Events
The death of Charles 1 tWhat happened between the end of the Civil War in 1645, when the Parliamentary army had scattered all the King's forces, and 1649, when its leaders brought Charles I to the scaffold? The broadcast describes this political crisis, and how Charles played the army false, as well as the quiet dignity with which he met his end.
Script by Stephen Usherwood and John Tully
New Every Morning, page 1
0 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (BBC H.B. 267)
Psalm 99
Isaiah 1. vv. 1-6, 16-20 (R.S.V.)
Lord of mercy and of might (BBC
H.B. 295)
10: La maison de campagne
Written by Emile Harven
An audiovisual, programme
10: La surprise-partie
Written by Max Bellancourt
Third-year French
Introduced by WILLIAM APPLEBY
Request week
Produced by Douglas Coombes
Man and the Seasons
Autumn to Winter:
DEREK BOWSKILL introduces the last broadcast of this term
A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life
One-man Circus
John MacDonald began work on Speyside as a mole-catcher forty years ago when every skin brought him two shillings. Fashion's change means that today he is lucky to receive twopence. He talks and sings about his life and his work for charity to ARCHIE P. LEE
A Winter Song
A kaleidoscope of the sounds, the scenes, the poetry, and the music of winter
Compiled and arranged by MARVIN KANE
Produced by Denis Lewell
Sir Paul Gore-Booth, Head of H.M. Diplomatic Service, 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 JACK PIZZEY
Friday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Story: ' Trundle the Tractor:
Trundle goes to market ' by Jean Atkinson
A mummers' play with action and music
Springboard series
by GORDON REYNOLDS with Mari GRIFFITH (guitar)
Produced by Albert Chatterley
An excerpt from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
An idealist tells his workmates what he thinks is the root of social evil.
Speak series
for the nine-to-eleven-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS
Free movement; Odysseus and the Cyclops; mime-a pantomime character.
The last of a series of programmes designed to help and encourage those who wish to express themselves more effectively in the spoken and written word.
10:Listeners' Forum
Written and introduced by CAROL ROBSON
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Somebody's Going to Die by Edward Bruce with John Justin , Bruce Beeby and Brian Haines
' The human animal needs three things-a sense of identity, stimulation, and security. The state offers a kind of security, but it nurtures boredom. I've sold out for the other two. I have a sense of identity in the power I have. I am stimulated by violence.'
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
Saturday's broadcast
A family magazine introduced by Jeremy Carrad from the South and West
The Wyvern: Sir Brian Horrocks recalls his association with the 43rd (Wessex) Division in the last war.
Happy, Merry, Prosperous ...: Dilys Breese reports on the Christmas-card business.
Books to Enjoy: some suggestions from Vernon Scannell.
Tales from the Arabian Nights edited by Naomi Lewis
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK
3: In which the Caliph Haroun Alrashid provides Abon-Hassan the Wag with a wondrous experience.
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 DOUGLAS CAMERON
Produced by the South-East news unit
A panel game from the Midlands devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, JACK LONGLAND
Recorded before an invited audience at The Commonwealth Institute. London
Repeated: Sunday, 12.25 p.m.
MARIA FARANDOURI sings songs by Theodorakis with instrumental ensemble conducted by the composer on gramophone records
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
The translation by EDMUND GOSSE and WILLIAM ARCHER adapted and produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX with Fenella Fielding
Michael Gwynn and Ian McKellen
The action takes place in the Tesmans' villa in Christiania: 1890.
Broadcast on Dec. 11, 1966 (Third)
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The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Walter Taplin 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 either the weekday or Sunday editions, send your letters to-Listening Post, [address removed]For very late letters you can ring [number removed]and dictate your message.
Three Men in a Boat by JEROME K. JEROME
Read by RICHARD BRIERS
Sixth of ten instalments
I MUSICI with HENRY ADELBRECHT and Jean-Pierre MATHEZ (trumpets) GINO DEL VEscovo and TOMMASO RUTA (mandolinsD gramophone records
