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7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time magazine introduced by JACK DE MANIO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
What the Bible says with WILF WILKINSON
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Wilf Wilkinson

DAVID BRIERLEY reads the last of ten instalments of the story by JOYCE STRANGER abridged by DONALD BANCROFT Produced by JOHN CARDY

Contributors

Unknown:
David Brierley
Story By:
Joyce Stranger
Abridged By:
Donald Bancroft
Produced By:
John Cardy

A l'écoute written by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY (for primary school pupils in their third year of French)
9.55 Movement and Music 2 by JAMES DODDING
Music by Debussy, selected and arranged by Vera Gray

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Escoffey
Music By:
James Dodding
Arranged By:
Vera Gray

Corneille ru par les jeunes d'nujourd'hui compiled and introduced by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
(French for Sixth Forms)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0 The Wood at Dawn by PHILIPPA PEARCE
Produced by JENYTH WORSLEY (Springboard series)
11.20 Ambuscade
An extract from The Unvanquished by William Faulkner : read by EDDIE MATTHEWS (Listening and Writing)
11.40 Prospect
Current Affairs: a subject of topical interest

Contributors

Introduced By:
Raymond Escoffey
Music By:
Albert Chatterley
Produced By:
Jenyth Worsley
Unknown:
William Faulkner
Read By:
Eddie Matthews

GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days, introduced by JOHN ELLISON. (Extended version: Sunday 11.15 am)
12.55
Weather and programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Ellison.

The old woman, a little pink pig, and a bear by EILEEN HYDE, adapted by SHEENA CLARKE (Let's Join In)
2.20 Where We Lice
A broadcast with a filmstrip to inspire work towards the making of a documentary of the neighbourhood: by moira F. DOOLAN
Produced by DAVID LYTTLE
(Art and Design: radiovision)
2.40 The Gentle Lion
The legend of St Jerome and the lion: script by JUNE HODGE (Stories and Rhymes)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Sheena Clarke
Produced By:
David Lyttle
Unknown:
St Jerome
Script By:
June Hodge

Three readings of letters exchanged between famous couples of the 17th. 18th, and 19th centuries during their courtships: compiled and narrated by JOHN RICHMOND
3: A 19th-century Courtship Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
With JILL BALCON , GABRIEL WOOLF Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Courtship Elizabeth Barrett
Unknown:
Robert Browning
Unknown:
With Jill Balcon
Produced By:
Graham Gauld

A family magazine introduced from Scotland by HOWARD LOCKHART
Billion-dollar Scot: Andrew Carnegie 's daughter talks about the famous financier and philanthropist
First of Foot: Britain's oldest regiment, the Royal Scots, is highlighted in a recently publised book
The ' Silent ' Days: special guest, LILLIAN gish, a visitor to this month's Edinburgh International Festival
Rocketeers: JOHN Stewart tells about a society founded in Paisley to arouse interest in rocket and space flight

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Lockhart
Unknown:
Andrew Carnegie
Unknown:
John Stewart

Nijinsky
The biography of the legendary dancer written bv his widow ROMOLA N i INSKY: abridged by DEREK PARKER from Nijinsky and The Last Years of Nijinsky read by ANNA BURDEN 2: Beauty or the Beast*
Overnight, the most famous dancer in the Western World became notorious - because of his first original ballet

Contributors

Abridged By:
Derek Parker
Read By:
Anna Burden

starring
Jimmy Edwards , Dick Bentley June Whitfield
With WALLAS EATON
THE KEYNOTES
BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA conductor HARRY RABINOWITZ Script by FRANK MUIR and DENIS NORDEN Produced by CHARLES MAXWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Dick Bentley
Unknown:
June Whitfield
Unknown:
Wallas Eaton
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
Script By:
Frank Muir
Script By:
Denis Norden
Produced By:
Charles Maxwell

by ROBERT BARR
A story in six episodes of espionage in the remote islands of the Outer Hebrides with Edward de Souza Bryden Murdoch and Geoffrey Frederick
Part 2 Alec Thompson
JOHN GRAHAM
Jim Nicholson EDWARD DE SOUZA Ian McLeod BRYDEN MURDOCH
Colonel Jamieson ALARIC COTTER Mary Somers ROSEMARY MILLER Major Williams PETER HAWKINS Bill Grant GEOFFREY FREDERICK Hotel manager ALARIC cotter
Produced by PETER TITIlERADGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
Bryden Murdoch
Unknown:
Geoffrey Frederick
Unknown:
Alec Thompson
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Jim Nicholson
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
Ian McLeod
Unknown:
Bryden Murdoch
Unknown:
Colonel Jamieson
Unknown:
Alaric Cotter
Unknown:
Mary Somers
Unknown:
Rosemary Miller
Unknown:
Major Williams
Unknown:
Peter Hawkins
Unknown:
Bill Grant
Unknown:
Geoffrey Frederick
Produced By:
Peter Titileradge

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SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD with ALAN CIVIL (horn)
Part of a public concert from the City Hall, Sheffield, presented bv the BBC in association with the Sheffield Philharmonic Society
Part 1
Tchaikovsky Overture-fantasia: Hamlet

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Stead

Three talks by BRIAN MEREDITH
3: Inward Bruises
Canada, as a bilingual, bicultural, and rather loose federation. needs to take considerable trouble merely to contain its own centrifugal forces: it is in constant danger of flying apart. But it has other more familiar problems too - of poverty, of inflation, of living in the shadow of a super power

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Meredith

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