Market trends, news, weather
Thursday's "Ten to Eight".
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
What the Bible says with PAUL BARBER
and Programme News
Revised second edition
Surrounded by sea, suspended in the aKe of paraffin without two wires to rub together to tune themselves into the electronic age, the islanders of Coll in the Hebrides talk about their bread and their boots and their beliefs, and how happy they are with the world that passes them by ... Introduced by NICHOLAS BARRETT
Produced by Russell Harty
Broadcast on February 13
Bing Crosby has had remarkable staying-power in the entertainment world and his career spans at least thirty-five years, as singer, film actor, and general entertainment handyman. He sees nothing remarkable in that and still insists on wondering what the fuss is about.
Tony Thomas, who compiled this programme and knows Bing Crosby well, disagrees.
(Broadcast on April 2, 1968)
St. Mark's Day
New Every Morning, page 90
0 thou who makest souls to shine
(BBC H.B. 225)
Psalm 121
2 Timothy 3, vv. 14-17; 4, vv. 1-5
(N.E.B.)
The Lord my pasture shall prepare (BBC H.B. 477)
BBC SCOTTISH
RADIO ORCHESTRA Leader, Ian Tyre
Conductor, IAIN SUTHERLAND with HENRY KREIN AND HIS QUARTET
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
5: A Very Junior Young Gentleman by Nesta Pain with Heron Carvic and John Westbrook
In 1784 Nelson, then a young captain, was stationed in the West Indies.
Produced by NESTA PAIN
GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days
Introduced by ALEXANDER MOYES Extended version: Sun., 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
for children under five
Story: ' The Little Boy who did not want to get up ' by Ruth Ainsworth
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by SIR VIVIAN DUNN
CZECHOSLOVAK
RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK Recordings marie available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio
on Rex Harrison who recalls the highlights ot his career on stage and screen from Charley's Aunt via My Fair Lady to Staircase, with soundtrack illustrations from his British and American films
Written and introduced by PETER MATTHEWS
† Produced by Lyn Fairhurst
A radio correspondence column
Thursday's broadcast (Radio 2)
in conversation with REX ALSTON looks back on his career as a BBC outside broadcast commentator
Illustrated by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by Leslie Perowne
Broadcast on August 6. 1968
A family magazine introduced from the Midlands by DAVID STEVENS and including:
Pints and Pentameters: TOM COYNE took a trip into the Oxfordshire countryside and found a poet in a pub
Where charity begins: WILLIAM MORLEY, a retired Bank Manager, is travelling the Midlands on behalf of the Charity Commission recording local charities. He talks to Keith Ackrill
The Lad with the Lamp: AMOS HARRIS has just retired after fifty-one years in the coal mines. He reminisces to Geoffrey Green
The Brilliant and the Dark. JOAN BATTLE, Honorary Festival Organiser, talks to Eric Roberts about the musical highlights of the Women's Institute Year
Sinister Twilight
The fall and rise again of Singapore
The book by Noel Barber abridged as a five-part reading by Marjorie Bilbow
Read by NIGEL GRAHAM
2: The days of inaction
Top-level bickering delays the provision of shore defences to protect the people of Singapore against the coming Japanese attack from the mainland.'
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 COLIN HAMILTON
Repeated: Monday, 1.30 p.m.
with Records for You
A weekly magazine of discovery and invention
News and views of the men and women whose achievements are going to affect our daily life
Introduced by PAUL VAUGHAN
A Science Unit production
Scottish National
Orchestra
Leader, Sam Bor
Conductor,
Alexander Gibson
Part 1
A talk by MAURICE LINDSAY illustrated by excerpts from Mendelssohn's letters
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 WALTER TAPLIN
A journalist from abroad takes a look at Great Britain this week
Middlemarch by GEORGE ELIOT
Part 3: Sunset and Sunrise
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Tenth of fifteen instalments
PHILADELPHIA WOODWIND QUINTET
Wind Quintet No. 3. in F major
Cambini Murray Panitz (flute) John de Lancie (oboe)
Anthony Gigliotti (clarinet) Mason Jones (horn)
Bernard Garfield (bassoon)
Wind Quartet in B flat major, with piano accompaniment .Ponchielli Murray Panitz (flute) John de Lancie (oboe)
Anthony Gigliotti (clarinet)
Donald Montanaro (E flat clarinet) with Anthony di Bonaventura (piano) gramophone records
