from MOORE WASSON
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by Tim MATTHEWS
With a song in my heart
PETER NAYLOR
and Programme News
Revised second edition
A true story by JANET LEWIS abridged and read by HILDA SCHRODER
Produced by John Cardy
First of eight instalments
He had vanished, and after eight years he had as suddenly returned. All the family greeted him with joy. Only one person, the wife of Martin Guerre , asked herself the question: ' Is this man truly Martin Guerre ? Is this man my husband? '
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
Reports from Britain and overseas
Revised edition of Sunday's broadcast
For the expert, the novire, and people who simply like ' messing about in boats '
Introduced by PETER WHEELER
Produced by Don Mosey
New Every Morning, page 1
Lo, God is here! (BBC H.B. 264) Psalm 99
St. John 9, vv. 1-12
Put thou thy trust in God (BBC
H.B.313)
An entertainer whose fabulous reputation was established early in his career
Fred Astaire
ALAN DELL plays some of the records that bring you the glamour and magic surrounding this great star
A radio version of ' An Evening with Alistair Cooke ' recorded before an invited audience at the May Fair Hotel, and televised on BBC-2 on July 11: broadcast in Radio 4 on Aug. 13
and Programme News
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTI. E
Friday evening's broadcast
A bouquet of flowers by Flotow, Tchaikovsky, Strauss Berlioz , Frangaix, Weber and others on gramophone records
This programme is a kind of bouquet of music about flowers, and mostly about roses. After Flotow's aria come two settings of Gautier's evocation of the spirit of the rose, a work by Jean Francaix based on a clock made up of flowers that bloom at different times during twenty-four hours, and the Rose Adagio from Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty. The potpourri continues with songs by Schumann. Schubert, and Edward German , and ends with Viennese waltzes by Johann and Richard Strauss.
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney by Frederick Lonsdale adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Jane Hylton as Mrs. Cheyney
Produced by RONALD MASON
Broadcast on April 30. 1966
Bank Holiday Edition
Introduced by POLLY ELWES and including:
An Edwardian Childhood: JAMES NORBURY talks to Jack Singleton about his early days in Knutsford-flat-earthers, the devil, the squirearchy, fat ladies, funerals, and German prisoners
Bim Bom : TOM INGRAM tells Jeanine McMullen about his book on bells-church, telephone, bicycle, door-and the way they order and disturb our life
Cut and come again: when the local verger retired from British Railways and set up a barber's shop in his home H. COLIN DAVIS became a patron All was not lost-when the nuclear power station came to Dungeness: observations by bird wardens BERT AXELL and BOB SCOTT
Cousin Phillis by Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell abridged and read in six parts by JOHN WESTBROOK
1: The Meeting
Paul Manning , a young railway clerk, is away from home working in the county town of Eltham where a branch line is under construction. His work takes him to the village of Healhbridge, and there he visits his mother's cousin who is married to the independent minister of Heathbridge, Ebenezer Holman. At Hope Farm, which is owned and worked by the minister, Paul meets their beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, his cousin Phillis.
and Programme News
Introduced by JOHN MOTSON
Produced by Godfrey Dixey
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
From the Royal Albert Hall London
Peter Frankl (piano) Ilse Wolf (soprano) Martin Isepp (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leader, Eli Goren
Conductor, Colin Davis
GEOFFREY Grigson , poet and critic, reflects on what offers him. if no one else. delight 1: Enjoyment
Part 2: Haydn
Mass in D minor (Nelson)
JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto) RYLAND DAVIES (tenor)
JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone) BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
SIMON PRESTON (organ continuo) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by PETER GELLHORN followed by an interlude
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
ANTONY BROWN introduces letters from today's postbag
A series of three talks by men who export an unusual product or commodity
1: Peter Schryver, Director of Concrete Ltd., explains how he sold a building technique or 'know-how ' to the United States.
The Land God Gave to Cain by HAMMOND INNES
Read by HENRY STAMPER
Sixth of fifteen instalments
ACADEMY OF
ST. Martin-in-the-Fields
Directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (violin)
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord) gramophone records
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