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The REV. WILLIAM HODGKINS
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Praying for strangers
First of four meditations by Bishop COCKIN
and Programme News
Revised second edition
by PEARL S. BUCK
Read by MARY WIMBUSH
Sixth of ten instalments
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
Reports from Britain and overseas
Revised edition of Sunday's broadcast
THE CI.IFF ADAMS SINGERS
THE RONNIE PRICE QUARTET
Guest, JAKE THACKRAY
Everywhere vou go you hear people singing, and these are the songs of the people, from town and country, from yesterday and today
Introduced and produced by JOHN BROWELL
New Every Morning, page 96
0 Christ, Redeemer of our race
(BBC H.B. 54)
He smites within his cradle
(Oxford Book of Carols 84)
Luke 1. vv. 24-38 (N.E.B.)
White shepherds watched their flocks by night (BBC H.B. 61)
ORCHESTRA
Leader. Maurice Brett
Conducted by GEORGE MICHIE with JOAN AND VALERIE TRIMBLE (two pianos)
Introduced by PETER BARKER
Ten stories selected and abridged by H. OLDFIELD Box
1: How Mr. Collins found himself a wife from Pride and Prejudice
Read by BARBARA MITCHELL
Broadcast in Story Time on Jan. 9
The Broads
JOHN MAY describes a summer journey on the Norfolk Broads
Recorded aboard the Coral Spray
Produced by Harold Rogers
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: ' Brigid and Ben at the pantomime ' by Jacqueline Adkins
BBC Concert Orchestra Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, MARCUS Doos and recordings made available by courtesy of Austrian and Czechoslovak Radios
How do children tackle poetrv written with a competition in mind?
REG SALISBURY introduces a selection of poems written for this year's Stroud Festival
Produced by Bill Salisbury
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."
Saturday's broadcast
A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
Wildlife in the City: PEARL
SMALL, Vice-President of the London Natural History Society. talks to Derek Parker about the badgers, foxes, and hawks that live in central London
Let's look it up: if you have a book token to spend in the New Year ELIZABETH SEAGER suggests you plump for a good reference book
Boys and Girls Grown Up:
GORDON Gow visits the New Year Show at the Empire Hall, Olympia
The Dead Hero and the Lady in Black: WILLIAM COLLINS made a discovery in Corunna
Tales from the Arabian Nights edited by Naomi Lewis
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK
7: In which young Aladdin is deceived by a wicked magician, but gains possession of the Wonderful Lamp.
and Programme News
Tonight's evening paper of the air
South-East '68: the year's headline-makers talk about the stories that made them front-page news
Reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard-Sportsdesk-Stop Press
Introduced by Tim GUDGIN and MERYL O'KEEFE
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.
A programme of records featuring Viennese operettas, polkas, waltzes, and folk songs
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Produced by Peter Chiswell
by Santha Rama Rau from the novel by E. M. Forster adapted bv JOHN MAYNARD starring Sybil Thorndike with Zia Mohyeddin
Jill Balcon , Frank Duncan
The action of the play takes place in the small provincial town of Chandrapore, in Eastern India, near Bengal. The time is April of a year in the early 1920s.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Broadcast on August 7. 1967
The News
Background to the News People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† GILES PLAYFAIR introduces letters from today's postbag
by JUDITH LISTOWEL
Judith Listowel looks back on her visit to Czechoslovakia just before the invasion when it looked as if the bid for freedom would succeed: and in the light of later events reviews what she heard from Czechs, including personal friends of Dubcek.
The Chimes by CHARLES DICKENS
Read by GARY WATSON
Sixth of ten instalments
PAUL KUENTZ CHAMBER Orchestra Conducted by PAUL KUENTZ with NlCANOR ZABALETA (harp) gramophone records
