Market trends, news, weather
Monday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIa
Listening with Reverence
PETER FIRTH
and Programme News
Revised second edition
BBC Correspondents talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast
Jesus shall reign (Tune, Truro-
S.P. 545)
Story: Grace Darling
The Prayer of Thanksgiving
My faith, it is an oaken staff (Tune,
Staff of Faith-BBC H.P.S.N. 10, Teachers' edition)
Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 a.m.
f Shantyman
Written by Stewart Love
New Every Morning, page 15
My God. how wonderful thou art
(BBC H.B. 12)
Canticle 3
Jeremiah 8, vv. 5, 7, 11, 18-22
Jesu. the very thought of thee
(BBC H.B. 322)
MIKE RAVEN investigates the world of show business to try and discover the ingredients which go to make a pop singer
Produced by Helen Fry r Broadcast on July 1. 1968, in the BBC World Service
by PENNY WHITTAM
Pirates: music selected and arranged by Vera Gray
Repeated: Thursday 9.55 a.m.
Mountain people have their own customs and worries
Songs: Song of the surrounding peaks: Our village
Written and produced by William Murphy
In the second of two programmes exploring the theme of community. some of the monks of the Anglican Order of St. Francis talk about their experience of living in a Christian community.
Tho Sixth Form series: Religion in its Contemporary Context
Recordings of favourite religious music .from folk song to oratorio
Narrators,
CHARLES CHILTON , KEVIN FLOOD
Compiled and produced by Charles Chilton
A comedy anthology culled from
Not Only But Also Benny Hill Time
Peter Sellers, Frankie Howerd Michael Bentine , Marty Feldman Stan Freberg
Introduced by JOHN CLEESE
Compiled by Christopher Serle
Produced by Christopher Serle and David Hatch
and Programme News
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM DAVIS
Monday evening's broadcast
Story: ' The Lawnmower that was Tired of Mowing ' by Ruth Ainsworth
Mongols attack the capital of Poland (1241)
Written by Rhoda Power
World History series
The Pirates of Penzance
WILLIAM APPLEBY rehearses the overtute and some of the songs in Act 1
Produced by Jenyth Worsley
Iron ore," discovered in vast quantities since 1950, has surpassed rubber as Liberia's main export. by DAVID HILLING
Geography
by William De Morgan dramatised for radio in thirteen parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM
A Cockney Saga observed from the London Village of Clapham in the year 1850.
1: The llinseck in the Beer
Sunday's broadcast
See page 44
Invitation to Music with gramophone records
Highlights from the Sunday show including celebrities in the headlines and on the musical scene:
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
BARBRA STREISAND , OMAR SHARIF JULIE ANDREWS , DANIEL MASSEY HOWARD KEEL , JANE POWELL
Introduced by PETER HAIGH
Written and produced by Lyn Fairhurst
Shorlened version of Sunday's broadcast (Radio 2)
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Pioneer of the Paperback: SIR ALLEN LANE talks to Jack Singleton about his long career in publishing
I spy with my little eye: SONYA CALLINGHAM investigates the growing menace of industrial espionage
A fair cop: BOB ALLRED , ex-policeman, recalls a stolen car episode that backfired
Your letters
Travellers in Africa
A series of six readings
6: Across Africa by Car
Chosen and abridged by Barry Campbell from the book My Two African Journeys by Frank Grey
Reader, INIGO JACKSON
Produced by R. D. Smith
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 Tim Gudgin
Repeated: Wednesday, 1.30 p.m.
Crucial events in the War at Sea reconstructed in thirteen episodes with a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma K.G., G.C.B., O.M.
The sinking of the liner Athenia
Narrated by Michael Flanders
with Eric Francis and John Bryning, Wilfrid Carter, Michael Deacon, Garard Green, Margaret Wolfit, members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Naval Historical Adviser, Lt.-Cmdr. Peter Kemp O.B.E., R.N. Ret.
Written and produced by John Bridges
See page 44
A series of general knowledge quiz contests between schools taking part in a jixth-form Hellenic Cruise last December aboard the S.S. Uganda and recorded as she sailed to and through the Mediterranean
Chairman, STEVE RACE
Tonight's preliminary round: Aireborough Grammar School Leeds t'.
Buckhurst Hill High School Chigwell, Essex
Produced by David Allan
Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 p.m.
Laurence Allix (piano)
BBC Welsh Orchestra
Leader. John Bacon
Conductor, John Carewe
Given before an invited audience in the Concert Halt, Broadcasting House, Llandaff, Cardiff
bringing you each week voices of people concerned with the topics and troubles of today Will we ever get a home?
Day by day the housing situation in Britain nets worse. Squatters occupy vacant property, pensioners are evicted, there are still acres of slum property. Lengthy housing lists and rising mortgage rates make the prospects of a young married couple owning their house in the foreseeable future extremely dim. What can we do about all this?
Produced by Alan Burgess
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† LESLIE SMITH introduces this edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome.
For either the weekday or Sunday editions. send your letters to: Listening Post, BBC, London, [Postcode removed]. For very late letters you can ring (01)-[number removed], extension 3030, and dictate your message.
Lorna Doone by R. D. BLACKMORE
Read by PAUL ROGERS
Second of twenty-five instalments
† IAN LAKE (piano)
