Market trends, news, weather
Wednesday's Ten to Eight.
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
C. S. LEWIS
Introduced by Harold Rogers
and Programme News
Revised second edition
by GEORGE ELIOT
Read by ALEC MCCOWEN
Fourth of twenty instalments
Bud Flanagan
An appreciation of the life and the music of the man who made audiences laugh for fifty years
Introduced and written by BENNY GREEN
Produced by Steve Allen
Broadcast on December 27, 1968
FRANK DIXON rediscovers the delights of the cinema organ Produced by Geoff Lawrence
Broadcast on January 19
New Every Morning, pane 22
Jesu, thy mercies are untold (BBC
H.B. 324)
Psalm 27: part 1 John 4, vv. 3-14
Holy Spirit, truth divine (BBC
H.B. 155)
STUDIO Orchestra OF SENDER FREIES BERLIN Conducted by WERNER EISBRENNER
STUDIO ORCHESTRA OF BERLIN Conducted by KURT GAEBEL
RIAS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FRIED WALTER
LIGHT ORCHESTRA from Stuttgart
Conducted by WILLY MATTES with BELLE GONZALEZ
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Recordings made available by courtesy of West German Radio
The story of a voyage by balloon
ANTHONY SMITH reads the sixth part of his own book which he has abridged into a seven-part serial
Broadcast on October 25, 1968
In a scries of programmes
LIAM NOLAN takes a light-hearted look at the affinity that exists between ' pairs ' in various sections of the entertainment world
This week: Radio Comedians
Produced by David Allan
Monday's broadcast
and Programme News
The News and Voices and. Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by JACK PIZZEY
Wednesday evening's broadcast
Story: ' Philip and the Sand-fish ' by Vivienne Wayman
from PAUL MARTIN featuring the ORCHESTRA
Conducted by STANLEY BLACK
Produced by Madeau Stewart
Records of music from Franz Lehar 's operetta
Introduced by NIGEL DOUGLAS
Maugham the Storyteller
Carleton Hobbs
Richard Hurndall , Gwen Watford in The Treasure by W. Somerset Maugham adapted for radio by LIANE AUKIN
Produced by KEITH WILLIAMS
Wednesday's broadcast (Radio 2)
A portrait of a period drawn from what remains to be seen
2: The Middle Ages
Written and presented by CHARLES CHILTON and illustrated with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by Sheila Anderson
Broadcast in the BBC World Service on January 5
A family magazine introduced by Tim GUDGIN and including:
World on Wheels: MICHAEL GILLIAM visits the largest-ever International Caravan Rally at Woburn Park in Bedfordshire
Bananas, Breadfruit, and 'Rule Britannia': SAMUEL MULLINGS remembers his schooldays in Manchester, Jamaica
Worst Foot Forward: PENNY LEDIGO describes the contortions of an aspiring ballet dancer
Your letters
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by R. S. Surtees abridged in ten episodes by HOWARD JONES
Read by JOSS ACKLAND
5: Mr. Jorrocks at Margate
Produced by Michael Bowen
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 COLIN HAMILTON
by Richard Gordon adapted for radio in thirteen episodes by RAY COONEY starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow
Episode 9:
To Bed Or Not To Bed
RAY COONEY as Tony Benskin NORMA RONALD as Wendy Swithinbank DENNIS RAMSDEN as Colonel Brown DAVID JASON as Harris EDWARD CAST as the Waiter
Produced by DAVID HATCH
Pre-recorded at The Playhouse, NorthumberlandAve., London. W.C.2
Tuesday's broadcast
Richard Briers is in ' Cat Among the Pigeons ' at the Prince of Wales Theatre. London
Kathleen Ferrier 1912-1953
A radio portrait
Speakers include: WINIFRED Ferrier
SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI SIR ARTHUR BLISS
BENJAMIN BRITTEN , JOHN FRANCIS
RoY HENDERSON , MAURICE JACOBSON GERALD MOORE , JOHN NEWMARK PETER PEARS , ALAN RAWSTHORNE
Compiled and produced by ROBERT POCOCK
A musical account of English life during the Napoleonic Wars
Part 2
Singers :
CHARLES WEST, PAT WHITMORE CHARLES YOUNG
THE RITA WILLIAMS SINGERS
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA Leader, John Bradbury
Conducted by ALFRED RALSTON
Narrators:
CHARLES CHILTON , ANN MURRAY STEPHEN THORNE , CHARLES WEST
Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER TAPLIN introduces letters from today's postbag
Foreign policy is the business of Her Majesty's Government. But is the policy itself influenced by Parliament or party, or the press as the instrument of public opinion? And should it be? The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Younger, Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Thomas Barman, writer and lately the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, and Michael Balfour, Professor of European Studies at the University of East Anglia, talk to Peter Jenkins of The Guardian.
A Very Quiet Place by ANDREW GARVE
Read by BRUCE BEEBY
Fourth of fifteen Instalments
EVA BERNATHOVA (piano) Broadcast on May 2
