Thursday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Meditation
Led by THE REV. PETER COLEMAN from Bristol
and Programme News
Revised second edition
by PEARLS. BUCK
Read by MARY WIMBUSH
Fifth of ten instalments
A series of five programmes presenting Local Radio Stations 3: BBC Radio Merseyside reflects the Mersey mood
through its people and events
Produced by Jim Black
Next Friday:
BBC Radio Nottingham
Christmas celebrations? An old-age pensioner in a bed-sitter looks forward to three days of unrelieved loneliness - the Christmas dinner delivered two days before by Meals On Wheels, the welfare visitors enjoying Christmas with their own families ...
TONY VAN DEN BERGH and JANE BOWMAN spent Christmas Day visiting some of those who dread the holiday and asked them how they passed the ' festive season'
Produced by Michell Raper
St. John's Day
New Every Morning, page 15
Child in the manger (BBC H.B. 45) Angels from the realms of glory
(Oxford Book of Carols 119)
St. John 1, vv. 1-14
The maker of the sun and moon
(BBC H.B. 600
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA Leader, Ian Tyre
Conductor, IAIN SUTHERLAND with JAMES MOODY (piano)
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
by Lynn Doyle
3: Sealing Wax
Broadcast in Story Time on Jan. 10
Gale Pedrick 's personal selection of items from BBC radio and television which have been featured in Pick of the Week in 1968 Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
Extended version: Sunday, 11.15 a.m.
and Programme News
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Thursday evening's broadcast
Story: ' An otd Donkey ' by Barbara Read
† LONDON STUDIO STRINGS
Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by ADRIAN SUNSHINE
STUTTGART LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILLY MATTES
NORWEGIAN BROADCASTING ORCHESTRA
Conducted by OIVIND BERGH
CZECHOSLOVAK RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JiRi WALDHANS
Recordings made available by courtesy of South German, Norwegian. and Czechoslovak Radios
A Business of Your Own
Few peopje get through life without at least once toying with the idea of starting a business of their own-a little shop, a small office or factory-something which allows you to be your own boss. But how do you set about it? Where do you find the money, and when you have it, how do you use it? How easy is it to start up on your own?
Introduced by BRIAN REDHEAD
Written and produced by JOHN MUSGRAVE
Estate Agents
with LA PETITE MUSICALE CHOIR
Introduced and conducted by OLIVE WALKE
An appreciation of the life and the music of Bud Flanagan
The man who made audiences laugh for fifty years
Introduced and written by BENNY GREEN
Produced by Steve Allen
A family magazine introduced from Nottingham by MAUREEN LITTLE
Filming 0. H. Lawrence : American producer LARRY KRAMER , on location in Derby-shire, talks to Dennis Mc Carthy about Women in Love
Home on the range: J. T. EDSON. the ex-postman who is now one of the country's most successful Western writers, talks to Barry Ecclestone
Move along: that's the order to fairground families who will now have to find new winter quarters after sixteen years in one spot. ROLAND ORTON finds out how they view the prospect
A sentimental waste of money?: Why do we spend millions of pounds every year on Christmas cards? ERIC BRADSHAW talks to a manufacturer
Nostalgic nose: GRACE GOODWIN remembers some of the smells of childhood days
Visitors to France
Arranged for radio by † SIMONA PAKENHAM who ends this series of eight programmes by reading from her own book
Pigtails and Pernod
Between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the 1930s, a large number of English colonies existed in France. Simona Pakenham was a regular childhood visitor to her grandmother's house in Dieppe.
and Programme News
Tonight's evening paper of the air
Reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard-Sportsdesk — Weekend with TOM BOSTOCK-Stop Press
Introduced by DOUGLAS CAMERON
Handel
Margaret Price soprano
Anna Reynolds contralto
William McAlpine tenor
Stafford Dean bass
ALAN STRINGER (trumpet) CALEB JARVIS (organ)
BRIDGET FRY (harpsichord) OLIVER VELLA (cello) RAYMOND HUTCHINSON (double-bass)
Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Chorus-Master, Edmund Walters
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Clifford Knowles
Conductor,
Charles Groves
A public concert from the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Part 1
WATKINS SHAW recounts the story of the first performance of Messiah in Dublin in 1742
Part 2
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, and trends in and out of Fleet Street: analysed by RUTH ADAM
Jim Bullock, retiring National President of the British Association of Colliery Management
In the days of private ownership there were two sides to the industry. Now, with nationalisation, there are four or even five sides, as Jim Bullock tells Tony Van den Bergh
The Chimes by CHARLES DICKENS
Read by GARY WATSON
Fifth of ten instalments
Pfitzner
Sextet, Op. 55
LEOPOLD WLACH (clarinet) ANTON KAMPER (violin) ERIC WEIS (viola)
FRANZ KAVARDA (cello)
JOSEF HERMANN (double-bass) WALTER KAMPER (piano) gramophone record
