Market trends, news, weather
Thursday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
The Teaching of Jesus told by SIR BERNARD MILES
and Programme News
Revised second edition
by GEORGE ELIOT
Read by ALEC MCCOWEN
Fifteenth of twenty instalments
A programme to keep you in touch with almost anything except politics
Introduced by PAUL BARNES
Produced by Richard Keen and Pat McLoughlin
New Every Morning, page 72
Lord, as to thy dear Cross we flee
(BBC H.B. 293)
Psalm 142
St. John 7, vv. 14-24
Judge eternal (BBC H.B. 393)
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA Leader, Ian Tyre
Conductor, IAIN SUTHERLAND with the KREIN SAXOPHONE QUARTET Directed by JACK BRYMER
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
by ROBERT Louis STEVENSON
10: On the march again with Alan
' If I was to hang tomorrow, and it was sure enough I might very likely sleep that night in a dungeon, I determined I should hear and speak once more with Catriona.'
Read by BRYDEN MURDOCH with LEONARD MAGUIRE as Alan Breck SHEILA DONALD as Catriona CLEM ASHBY as the Lord Advocate and Douglas MURCHIE as Stewart
Broadcast on October 17 1968
GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from BBC radio and television during the past seven days
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
and Programme News
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Thursday evening's broadcast
Story: ' Kim and the Kitten' by E. Cowen
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA
Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by JAMES LOCKHART RAYMOND CHEVREUX AND HIS ORCHESTRA
PAUL DURAND AND HIS ORCHESTRA Recordings made available by courtesy of French Radio
Three readings of letters exchanged between famous couples of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries during their courtships: compiled and narrated by JOHN RICHMOND
1: A 17th-century courtship Dorothy Osborne and William Temple with OLIVE GREGG and JOHN PULLEN
Produced by Graham Gauld
Sept. 19: Lady Mary Pierrcpont and Edward Wortley Montagu
See page 34
LONDON STUDIO PLAYERS
Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by VILEM TAUSKY with RICHARD ADENEY (flute) EDWARD RUBACH (piano)
Sir Bernard Miles recalls the years of a widely varied and adventurous life working in all fields of entertainment and illustrates how his character, so strongly moulded in childhood, has despite all his efforts to change it remained invincibly rural.
Produced by John Dyas
Saturday's broadcast
A family magazine introduced from the Midlands by DAVID STEVENS
Let the pealing organ blow: NOEL MANDER builds organs, but his hobby is restoring 18th-century instruments, which often lie decaying in the little country churches of England: he talks to Geoffrey Green
Reflections from a Cotswold farm: Harry Soan called on JIM HITCH, a Cotswold farmer, to try to discover the flavour of life today and in days gone by I thank you for your voices, Your most sweet voices: The voices of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre company at Stratford-upon-Avon have long been the concern of DENNE GILKES. The list of her pupils reads like a theatrical roll of honour, and recently they honoured her at her eightieth birthday: Sonia Beesley spoke to her after the celebration
This Time Next Week by LESLIE THOMAS
The autobiography of a happy orphan, abridged in five parts by Lorraine Davies
Read by RAY SMITH
2:Nobody's Children
' On my first night in the iron bed in the three-rowed dormitory I promised myself that nothing was going to upset me here, I would allow nothing to hurt me. I would be an island. This was the isolationist plan. But it never worked.'
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
From the Royal Albert Hall London
BBC Chorus
Continuo: Charles Spinks (harpsichord and organ) Kenneth Heath (cello)Ã Adrian Beers (double-bass)
English Chamber Orchestra
Associate leaders, Kenneth Sillito and Jose-Luis Garcia
Conducted by Meredith Davies
Act 1
(See page 35)
by SARAH GRAHAM
Mrs. Warren was very old and her mind and memory were failing, but she never lost her delight in beauty, her courtesy, and her sense of fun.
Semele: ACT 2
NINA SAGOVSKY and her brother were in bed with measles when the Revolution broke out in Petrograd in 1917: ' The first we knew about it was when we heard a scuttle behind our nursery door. Our cook Varvara was arguing and not letting someone pass. Then the door was pushed open and two rough-looking soldiers burst in.' Broadcast on January 3. 1968
Semele: ACT 3
Ann Howard broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company; Forbes Robinson by permission of the Gen. Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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 DONALD McLACHLAN
tA series of five interviews in which people whose work brings them in contact with crime talk about their jobs to JUNE ROSE
5: JOHN ALLWRIGHT prison visitor
A Very Quiet Place by ANDREW GARVE abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by BRUCE BEEBY
Produced by John Cardy
Last of fifteen instalments
Brahms
Trio in E flat major, Op. 40 ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) BARRY TUCKWELL (horn)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) gramophone records
