Market trends, news, weather
Tuesday's "Ten to Eight".
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Wishes for a Godchild expressed by MONICA FURLONG
and Programme News
Revised second edition
Sunday's broadcast
Two illustrated talks by Nicholas Tucker
Nursery rhymes tend to be regarded as sacrosanct and to tamper with them is rather like tampering with the text of Shakespeare. Yet many nursery rhymes are nineteenth-century versions of far older - and more adult - rhymes. Nicholas Tucker talks about the history of nursery rhymes, and gives examples of the kinds of changes deemed necessary over the years.
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by JAMES DODDING
Professor Thingummy, the inventor, and his assistant, Bob, in ' The Clock Shop,' with music from Walton's Facade selected and arranged by Vera Gray
Repeated: Friday, 9.55 a.m.
New Every Morning, page 26
0 Saviour, where shall guilty man
(BBC H.B. 87)
Psalm 31
Luke 9, vv. 37-50 (N.E.B.)
I heard the voice of Jesus say
(BBC H.B. 143)
Written by Charlotte Crozet
Intermediate French series
A variety of music from pavilion to parade-ground
Introduced by PAUL MARTIN
Produced by Madeau Stewart
Broadcast in the BBC World Service
Unit 2: Man the Measurer
1: Time
Written by Arthur Vialls
Mysterious happenings in the night are not unconnected with Three O'Clock Grandad
Songs: Three O'Clock Grandad
The fishmonger
Written and produced by William Murphy
4: Early Space Flight
ALAN EREIRA introduces a survey of man's early efforts to conquer space
Three reminiscences of a very different childhood by EDDIE MATTHEWS
3: The Snipe Hunt
Until a boy had been on a ' snipe hunt he hadn'crossed the threshold to manhood. But the boys weren'intended to catch a snipe. Eddie Matthews did.
FRANKLIN ENCELMANN recently visited
Wootton Bassett. Wiltshire
Sunday's broadcast
and Programme News
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Tuesday evening's broadcast
Story: ' Galloper and Bouncer and the Kittens' by Margaret Jacobson
4: Oranges
The working year of a Spanish orchardist who grows oranges for the British market.
Script by Joan Davies
Exploration Earth series
by Gore Vidal , adapted for radio by Sam Langdon : part 3 Produced by Richard Wortley
Books. Plays. Poems series
by MARGARET SHEFFIELD
Compass needles point to a place in the Arctic circle-the magnetic north pole.
Nature series
The Queen of the Castle
A comedy by Jenifer Wayne
When the Dundoonies sold their castle they didn'reckon to sell Auntie Cath as well ...
Produced by DAVID A. TURNER
from Exeter Cathedral
Responses (Humphrey Clucas)
Psalms 27, 28, 29 (Monk in G,
('lark in A minor, Hylton Ste wart in C minor and C. Atkins in B flat)
Lessons: Genesis 8, v. 15, to 9, v. 17; Romans 3
Canticles (Amner, Second Service
— Cesar's Services
Anthem: At the round earth's imagin'd corners (Hewitt Jones)
Organist and Master of the Choristers, LIONEL DAKERS
Assistant Organist, Christopher Gower
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
' Music, friend of pleasure ':
ELIZABETH FRANCIS tells the story of the Dorking Palm Court Orchestra
For all the jewels ...: ERIC
MAPLE takes a look at the lore and legends of precious stones
But the cattle market was too much-or what I did in the Great War: by MRS. D. PERRINS
Garden lore for February: from FRED LOADS
Brensham Village by John Moore
Adapted as a serial reading in seven parts and produced by Paul Humphreys
Read by KEITH BANKS
6: The Syndicate
and Programme News
Tonight's evening paper of the air
Reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard-Sportsdesk-Stop Press
Introduced by DouGLAS CAMERON
Lord David Cecil, English scholar and author, with Roy Plomley
(Monday's broadcast)
1875-1962
A portrait of the celebrated violinist illustrated with gramophone records
Readings by DAVID MARCH from Louis P. Lochner 's biography Additional contributions from DOUGLAS LAWRENCE and IVOR NEWTON
Produced by John Lade
Last of three programmes on the voyages of Captain James Cook
Written by REX RIENITS with Bryan Pringle as Captain Cook Others taking part:
Christopher Bidmead
John Bryning , Carl Forgione
Nigel Graham , Alexander John Haydn Jones , Harry Landis and Victor Lucas
Narrator, BASIL JONES
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
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A balance-sheet on contemporary social questions Next Year's Garden
An assessment of ways of tackling the problems of old age
Narrator. CARLETON HOBBS
Script by J. S. Campbell
Producer, Archie P. Lee
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The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
TONY BROWN introduces letters from today's postbag
Middlemarch by GEORGE ELIOT
Part 1: Dorothea
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Eighth of twenty Instalments
played by AUDREY BRETT (violin)
HAVELOCK NELSON (piano)
