Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 277,877 playable programmes from the BBC

STUDIO ORCHESTRA OF BERLIN Conducted by KURT GAEBEL COLOGNE RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CURT CREMER RIAS ORCHESTRA, BERLIN
Conducted by FRIED WALTER ORCHESTRA OF BAVARIAN RADIO Conducted by WERNER SCHMIDT-BOELCKE
With LEONARD PEARCEY introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Recordings made available by courtesy of the West German Radio
I Organisation

Contributors

Conducted By:
Curt Cremer
Conducted By:
Fried Walter
Conducted By:
Werner Schmidt-Boelcke
Introduced By:
Martin Muncaster

by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 9: The Lord Advocate
'Two days before I was like a beggarman by the wayside. Today I was served heir to my position in life, a landed laird, recommendations in my pocket, and (in words of the saying) the ball directly at my foot.'
Read by BRYDEN MURDOCH with SHEILA DONALD as Catriona CLEM ASHBY as the Lord Advocate and Douglas MURCHIE os Stewart
Broadcast on October 10. 1968

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Read By:
Bryden Murdoch
Unknown:
Sheila Donald
Unknown:
Catriona Clem Ashby
Unknown:
Douglas Murchie

In a series 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: Folk duos
Produced by David Allan

Contributors

Unknown:
Liam Nolan
Produced By:
David Allan

ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair
Produced by Bobby Jaye
Pre-recorded at The Paris. Lower Regent street, London, S.W.I
Monday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Adamson Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
David Franklin
Produced By:
Bobby Jaye

Billie Holiday
No jazz singer was ever pushed around by unscrupulous managers or by the police so much as Billie Holiday. But, somehow, the bitter seeds of her experiences bore magnificent fruit when she sang about them.
Now, ten years after her death, ALLAN EADY looks back at her life and talks about it with KENNETH ALLSOP , MAX JONES , and ANNIE Ross
Produced by Russell Harty

Contributors

Unknown:
Billie Holiday
Unknown:
Allan Eady
Unknown:
Kenneth Allsop
Unknown:
Max Jones
Produced By:
Russell Harty

Takeover by Jim Andrew
Big John McEuin, thanks to none too scrupulous methods, is now an influential man in the town, but as he approaches his fiftieth birthday he learns how precarious his grasp of his ' Empire really is ...
Wednesday's broadcast (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Andrew

"A portrait of a period drawn from what remains to be seen
3: The Age of the Tudors and Stuarts
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 12

Contributors

Presented By:
Charles Chilton

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Going to the Pictures: PETER DAVALLE reviews some recent releases and talks to STERLING HOLLOWAY, the voice of Poohbear, Kaa, and other Disney cartoon creations
Schools, Sheiks, and the Sudan: INA BEASLEY continues her conversation with Jack Singleton about her pioneer work in African education
Fly-tying: Bill TAGG , Staffordshire angler, talks to St. John Howell ; ARTHUR RANSOME describes how he dressed Fair Cop
Your letters

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Peter Davalle
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Bill Tagg
Unknown:
John Howell
Unknown:
Arthur Ransome

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by R. S. Surtees abridged in ten episodes by HOWARD JONES
Read by Joss ACKLAND
7: Mr. Jorrocks on the roads of France
Produced by Michael Bowen

Contributors

Unknown:
R. S. Surtees
Read By:
Joss Ackland
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

by Richard Gordon adapted for radio in thirteen episodes by RAY COONEY starring with 11: Disengagement
Produced by DAVID HATCH
Pre-recorded at The Playhouse. Northumberland Ave... London. W.C.2
Tuesday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Gordon
Unknown:
Ray Cooney
Produced By:
David Hatch
Simon Sparrow:
Richard Briers
Sir Lancelot Spratt:
Geoffrey Sumner
Tony Benskin:
Ray Cooney
Anthea deVere Sidebottom:
Alethea Charlton
Mrs. deVere Sidebottom:
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Mr. deVere Sidebottom:
Peter Williams

in Elgar Country
David Franklin wanders round the places where Elgar lived, worked, and died, and hears again the sound of his music, the voices of his friends, and a unique recording of Elgar himself
Produced by Helen Fry
Broadcast on June 13

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Produced By:
Helen Fry

A musical account of English life during the Napoleonic Wars
Part 3
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
STEPHEN THORNE , CHARLES WEST
Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Whitmore
Leader:
John Bradbury
Conducted By:
Alfred Ralston
Narrators:
Charles Chilton
Narrators:
Stephen Thorne

As a teenager, Sally Trench went to live among and care for the meths-drinkers on the London bombsites, the ultimate outcasts of the Welfare State. Eventually she left them to go to University and to marry; but last year she visited America for some months and chose to spend her time there, too, with the outcasts of the Great Society: the slum-dwellers of Harlem and the derelicts of Skid Row.
In this conversation with LESLIE SMITH she talks about her experiences

Contributors

Unknown:
Sally Trench
Unknown:
Leslie Smith

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More