Friday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
1968 and all that
A round-up of some of the things they said in On Your Farm during the year
Arranged and introduced by ANTHONY PARKIN
Repented: Wednesday 12.25 p.m. (Radio 4: Midland and West)
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
and Programme News
BBC Correspondents talk about the news. its background, and the people who make it
Revised edition: Tuesday. 9.5 a.m.
by D. C. HORTON
Thirty years ago some of the people of the Solomon Islands worshipped the Shark. Other islanders were attacked while swimming but never the Shark people ...
From the BBC Sound Archives
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by ANTHONY KING
by JOYCE GRENFELL , KENNETH HORNE WYNFORD VAUGHAN-THOMAS
In the chair, CLIFF MICHELMORE
Produced by Alan Haydock
Houseplants
Advice on their care-what to do about feeding, watering, re-potting and propagating them, plus advice on planting out Christmas trees; also a guide to the week's work
Produced by Robin Hicks
Holy Innocents' Day
New Every Morning, page 37
To us in Bethlem city (BBC H.B.
315)
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
(Oxford Book of Carols 22)
St. Matthew 2, vv. 13-23
In the bleak mid-winter (BBC H.B
51)
Second Year Russian
The second of four extra programmes for the holiday period.
2: Russian Cabaret
Songs currently popular in Russia, sung by well-known Soviet artists.
Presented by TANIA KELIM
Last week's broadcast (Study on 8)
Dante's 'Inferno' by IAN FLETCHER
University of Reading
Broadcast on May 13 (Study on 3)
Fifteen lessons in spoken Italian for those who already have some knowledge of the language.
Written and introduced by GIOVANNI CARSANIGA and ANNA VENEZIANI
11: Correndo sull'autostrada
A young couple are driving along the motorway Firenze-mare on their way to spend a camping holiday on the Tuscan coast.
Last Saturday's broadcast
This week's Study on 3 and accompanying publications: page 46
Outlook '69
BILL HARTLEY looks forward to the New Year and talks to
THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT
The Rt. Hon. Richard Marsh , M.P.
ERIC TOBrrr
I won'waste motoring money
JOHN MILES
I'll learn more about driving
ANNE HALL: I'll get more pleasure out of motoring followed by topical news and the latest traffic information
Produced by Jim Pestjidge
Star items from the week's editions of radio's famous breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN
and Programme News
A spontaneous discussion by BARONESS STOCKS
SIR EDWIN LEATHER DAVID BENEDICTUS ROBERT MORLEY
Chairman, David JACOBS
Produced by Michael Bowen from Hartcliffe Community Centre. Bristol Last Friday's broadcast (Radio 2)
Listeners' views for use in ' Any Answers? ' (Thursday at 8.45 p.m., Radio 2) should be addressed to the BBC. Bristol BSS 2LR, marked ' Any Answers? '
Lucy Arnold
A love story by Compton Mackenzie adapted from his novel Figure of Eight
On a June evening in 1913 the ballet girls of the Orient Palace of Varieties had just heard of the death of Jenny Pearl. The gloom which the news had cast was not lightened by the arrival of Miss Chibbett. who peddled clothes at the theatre and was anxious to collect money owing to her. Her first ' victim ' was Lucy Arnold who had taken Jenny Pearl 's place in the front line ... with Produced byMARTYN C. WEBSTER
Broadcast on Nov. 23. 1966 (Light)
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Among the speakers:
JOAN PLOWRIGHT , GORDON Gow
MATTHEW NORGATE , MONICA SIMS JEAN SHAPIRO , PETER HENEKER ANGELA NOLAN
Topics include:
Getting a Play On
Cats
Television and Your Child and The experiences of an Irish nurse in England
Sido by COLETTE read by PEGGY ASHCROFT
Fifth of eight instalments
gramophone records
A radio competition for bands
Round 1: Programme 1 Clydebank Burgh Band
Conductor, ANTHONY CLUCAS v.
Cory Workmen 's Band
Conductor, JOHN HARRISON
Adjudicators, HARRY MORTIMER CAPTAIN TREVOR L. SHARPE FRANK WRIGHT
Introduced by JOHN DUNN
Produced by William Relton
See page 45
and Programme News
Produced by Godfrey Dixey
A male reply to Petticoat Line
STUART HENRY
HUMPHREY LYTTELTON WOLF MANKOWITZ DONALD ZEC take the masculine point of view in answer to the Petticoat Line broadcast last week
In the chair, MICHAEL SMEE
Produced by John Cassels
Pre-recorded at The Piccadilly. 201. Piccadilly. London. W.1.
Shortened version: Tues., 12 noon
Introduced by David Franklin with VIVIEN TOWNLEY (soprano) BERNARD DICKERSON (tenor)
ROBERT BICKERSTAFF (baritone) HAROLD BLACKBURN (bass)
THE GALA CHORUS
Directed by John McCarthy
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader. Arthur Leavins Conductor. MARCUS Dods
Produced by Gareth Walters
From the Camden Theatre,
London
The programme includes music from The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky). Don Pasquale (Donizetti). and Ainahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti).
Vivien Townley broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden: Harold Blackburn and Robert Bickerstaff by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
by Oscar Wilde
with Maxine Audley, Fabia Drake, Timothy West and Rosalind Shanks
"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
Repeated: Monday. 3.15 p.m. See page 44
LORD WRIGHT OF
ASHTON MICHAEL WINSTANLEY , M.P. BILL GRUNDY join BRIAN REDHEAD in a late-evening conversation
Produced by John Musgrave
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV. DR. RONALD FALCONER
Mozart
Sonata in C major (K.521)
Adagio and Allegro in F minor
(originally for mechanical organ) (K.594)
MARIA DONSKA and ALAN ROWLANDS (piano duet)
Seventh of a weekly series of programmes of Mozart's piano music
