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 CYRIL FLETCHER
and Programme News
Revised second edition
The weekly series reflecting wildlife and its position in today's ever-changing world
Presented by DEREK JONES
Sunday's broadcast
by H. COLIN DAVIS
Edward Lear wrote the best nonsense verse in English-but was it such nonsense? Colin Davis argues, from two of the most famous of the verses, that they were at least autobiographical.
by JAMES DODDING
Professor Thingummy, the inventor and Bob his assistant in ' The Musical Box Shop'; with music from Walton's Façade selected and arranged by Vera Gray
Repeated: Friday, 9.55 a.m.
New Every Morning, page 93
Love of the Father (BBC H.B. 522) Psalm 119. part 7
Luke 13, vv. 22-35 (N.E.B.)
My Lord, my life, my love (BBC
H.B. 330)
by Prosper Mérimée, adapted for radio by Emile Harven
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
3: Keeping time
Radiovision programme
Ebenezer's journey down the hill is quicker than his journey up- and so is the music.
Songs: The Fishmonger
The Blacksmith
Written and produced by William Murphy
6: The Cuban Crisis, 1962
Script by Alan Ereira
† MARY CATHCART BORER was one of a group of six archaeologists working on the West bank of the Nile just before the second world war. She describes the strange methods used to retrieve her stolen revolver in this remote place.
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited
Tranent. East Lothian
Sunday's broadcast
Darlaston, Staffs
and Programme News
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by William Hardcastle
Tuesday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Story: ' Pussy Simkin and a Very Cold Day ' by Linda Greenbury
2: Locusts, a 'plague of Egypt' that is still with us
Script by Geoffrey Sherlock
Exploration Earth series
2.20 CORIOLANUS by William Shakespeare adapted by John Kerry : parti
Produced by David Lyttle
Books, Plays, Poems series
2.45 OAK WOODS by ERIC SIMMS
Certain plants and animals live together in oak woods.
Nature series
A play for radio by Joan O'Connor
'She does believe in being loyal. But what to? She doesn't believe in your sort of "hurray patriotism" you see. Loyalty, a person's loyalty. to a country or anything, has got to go deeper than that.'
Cast in order of speaking: [see below]
Accordion music from Paris
from the Chapel of Trinity College,
Dublin University sung by the COLLEGE CHAPEL CHOIR
Preces and Responses (Smith)
Canticles (Michael Wise )
Psalm 119, vv. 145-176 (Mine in G minor; Hancock in B fiat)
Lessons: Genesis 46, v. 26, to 47, v. 12; Philippians 3
Anthem: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake (Hilton)
Organist and Choirmaster, DAVID MILNE
A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
This'll make you whistle: ELSIE RANDOLPH talks to Ken Sykora about her musical - comedy partnership with Jack Buchanan
Wheels within wheels: Anne Suter talks to WALTER BEDLOW , last of a line of wheelwrights and cart-makers
I was brainwashed: BOB THORPE recalls the cross-country races of his schooldays
A breath of fresh air from the Ilkley Moor gamekeeper and naturalist WALTER FLESHER
by Victor Canning adapted in five parts by Howard Jones
2: Ninus and Elsa
' You stay away from them. What kind of people are you meeting? You know how many bodies they pull out of that river every year? Not half as many as go in and stay there.'
Produced by ROGER PINE
and Programme News
and RADIO NEWSREEL
Tonight's evening paper of the air
Reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard-Sportsdesk-Stop Press
Introduced by DOUGLAS CAMERON
Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 p.m.
Angus Wilson, author and historian, with Roy Plomley
(Monday's broadcast)
and all that
Roger Snowdon introduces an hour of music and reminiscence with MAURICE CHEVALIER JOSEPHINE BAKER
JEAN SABLON , Miss BLUEBELL and other personalities of the great show world of Paris, and with a cast of actors tells something of its past and its present
The actors:
LEONARD FENTON , URSULA HANRAY KATHLEEN HELME. GODFREY KENTON VICTOR LUCAS , DENIS MCCARTHY
ROSALIND SHANKS , GLADYS SPENCER
Compiled and produced by Roger Snowdon
See page 39
by Thea Holme
The story of Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, who was destined to become Queen, but died young with Patricia Gallimore as Princess Charlotte
Others taking part:
Alaric Cotter. Joan Hart
Thea Holme , Alexander John Godfrey Kenton. Pauline Letts
Denis McCarthy , Frederick Treves
Narrator, ROLF LEFEBVRE
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
A report by Ian Rodger who knew the Durham-Newcastle area in its latter days of depression, and recently returned to find it on the verge of a huge industrial and social revolution
Produced by Francis Dillon
See page 39
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
ANTONY BROWN introduces letters from today's postbag
No Leading Lady by R. C. SHERRIFF
Read by NOEL HOWLETT
Third of ten instalments
ENID CLARKE (piano)