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
Hymn: Onward Christian Soldiers
(Tune: St Gertrude-S.P. 397)
Interlude: Mr. Lombard's Misfortunes: 1
The prayer for God's presence
who looks back on some of the highlights of his career in show business and introduces some of his own favourite artists
Produced- by Steve Allen
Wednesday's broadcast
New Every Morning, page 4
God moves in a mysterious way
(BBC H.B. 8)
Psalm 96
Jeremiah 1, vv. 4-10, 17-19
Let all the world in every corner sing (BBC H.B. 275)
BASIL BOOTHOYD presents a personal view of Lincolnshire with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by Denys Gueroult
Broadcast in the BBC World Service
Know the Need
Introduced by BARRY CARMAN
Produced by Rita Udall
Christian Focus series"
11.20 THE RAILWAY GAME
An extract from the autobiography by Clifford Dyment
Listening and Writing series
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS
Subtopia by JOHN DONAT
Produced by T. K. Butcher
Radiovision
GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
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
Story: ' Richard's Birthday ' by Winifred Dawson
An Italian fairy tale adapted for radio and retold by BARBARA SLEIGH
Let's Join In series
In every era some particular kind of musician has been ' all the rage.'
Sidney HARRISON discusses eight significant types with recordings by and about them. 1: Canary Fanciers
Produced by Denys Gueroult
by Hans Andersen adapted by Philippa Pearce
Stories and Rhymes series
The British Hard Court Championships
Commentary by MAx ROBERTSON with summaries by DAN MASKELL from the West Hants Lawn Tennis Club. Bournemouth
A radio correspondence column
Thursday's broadcast (Radio 2)
R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth 2 today leaves Southampton for her first transatlantic voyaKe to New York. Latest in a long line of Cunarders stretching back 129 years, successor to the great Queen liners, she inherits a distinguished tradition.
HAROLD ROGERS and ROBERT STANNAGE look back at some of the famous Cunard liners of the past and at the building of this new Queen of the sea
Script by Robert Stannage
A BBC Sound Archive production by Harold Rogers and Denis Lewell
Introduced by JEREMY CARRAD from the South and West tLong and thin, and rather lugubrious: George Orwell , remembered as a young police officer in Burma in the 1920s by ROGER BEADON
Vintage stuff: RONALD AVERY ,
Bristol wine merchant, talks to Jeremy Carrad lei on parle anglais:
MICHAEL CANNEY watches the Dupont family set out for a holiday in England
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
3: The Days of Disaster
The people of Singapore, their numbers swollen by evacuees and wounded soldiers from up-country, prepare for the enemy invasion. ' This will be one of the greatest scandals that could possibly be exposed ' (Winston Churchill).
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 DOUGLAS CAMERON
Repeated: Monday, 1.30 p.m.
Hayward Morse is appearing at the Queen's Theatre, London
with Records for You
John Lill (piano)
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Leader. Reginald Stead Conducted by Akeo Watanabe
From the Victoria Hall, Hanley Part 1
There were Cossacks. Australians, and Sudanese on board the troopship ... and so for D. G. VALENTINE in the ship's hospital life was far from dull
Part 2: Dvorak
Symphony No. 7, in D minor
Presented by the BBC in association with Stoke-on-Trent Arts Festival 1969
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 COLIN VALDAR
A journalist from abroad takes a look at Great Britain this week
Middlemarch by GEORGE ELIOT abridged and read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Produced by John Cardy
Part 3 (conclusion): Sunset and Sunrise
Last instalment
SMETANA QUARTET
Jiri Novak (violin)
Lubomir Kostecky (violin) Milan Skampa (viola) Antonin Kohout (cello)gramophone record
