S.55 Weather; programme news
Today's Time GTs 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 am
1.0. 6.0 pm
Big Ben 10:0 pm
7.10 South-East News
7.15 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Produced by ANTHONY PARKIN
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Outlook reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC Correspondents talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
8.45 Today's Papers *
A Hebridean Childhood
ALEXANDRINA MALLOCH was born on the island of North Uist in the days before the bicycle came to the islands....
(from the BBC Sound Archives: broadcast in 1940)
8.59 Weather
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by ANTHONY KING
by MICHAEI. FLANDERS
ELIZABETH LONGFORD
THE EARL OF LONGFORD
In the chair CLIFF MICHELMORE
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON
A weekly magazine for amateur gardeners introduced by GEORGE SIGSWORTH The Care of House Plants:
TOM ROCHFORD
Organic Gardening:
DR W. E. SHEWELL COOPER
Week's Work: GEORGE GILLARD
St John
NEM p 102; From glory to glory advancing (BBC HB 244): Angels from the realms of glory (Oxford Book of Carols 119); John 1, vv 1-14: In the bleak mid-winter (BBC HB 51)
introduced by Paul Barnes
To keep you in touch with almost anything that's on, or around, or on the way.
Produced by RICHARD KEEN ROSEMARY HART , COLIN REID
visits the Manchester and District Group of the Institute of Advanced Motorists
Questions from an audience of members and friends answered by JAMES DRAKE , County Surveyor and Bridgemaster of Lancashire RICHARD S. BARRATT , Assistant Chief Constable, Manchester and Salford Police
HARRY HEYWOOD , Editor of Practical Motorist
PAT GREGORY , motoring writer Chairman RAYMOND BAXTER
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Produced by jim PESTRIDGE at 12.23* the latest traffic report
Star items from the week's editions of radio's famous breakfast-time magazine introduced by LIAM NOLAN
and programme newt
A spontaneous discussion by RUSSELL BRADDON
BARONESS STOCKS
THE DEAN OF GUILDFORD
JOHNNY MORRIS
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from Princess Margaret's Hospital, Swindon
by HENRY JAMES adapted for radio by MARY HOPE ALLEN
Not all liars are ignoble creatures, and certainly first-class women love them. But they may complicate life for other people.
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
The Magic Christian: Ringo Starr talks to Gordon Gow about his new film
The Ghost of Christmas Present: Clifford Hanley
Bookshelf: another incredible journey - Sheila Burnford, author of The Incredible Journey, talks about her new book
Let's Have a Party: seasonal tips from Katie Stewart, Martine Legge, Freda Cowell and Derek Nimmo
Faces from the Past: Lyn MacDonald and Geoffery Bibby at Aarhus. Denmark
Winter Break: Mollie Lee suggests ideas for weekends away Mousework by Joan Aiken abridged by Virginia Browne-Wilkinson read by Richard Hurndall
Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals: ALDO CICCOLlNI (piano) ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRETRE
4.22* d'Indy Symphony on a French Mountaineer's Song ALDO CICCOLINI (piano)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ CLUYTENS
4.49* Falla Ballet: El amor brujo: VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
5.17* Htmegger Pacific 231 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN gramophone records
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
and programme News
and Radio Newsreel
with DOUGLAS CAMERON
Introduced bv JOHN MOTSON Produced by GODFREY DIXEY
Showman at large in the world of music
Written by a. p. HERBERT
This giant of show business tried his hand at presenting nearly everything from boxing to ballet, often without great financial success. Following a boxing match failure, his backers gave him this advice: ' stick to the theatre.' Happily, he did, and in this programme, for which A. P. Herbert has written the script, we shall hear music from some of C. B. Cochran 's great shows.
CHERRY LIND, PATRICIA REAKES KENNETH MACDONALD
CHARLES YOUNG
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by KENNETH ALWYN Introduced by DOUGLAS SMITH Produced by ROBERT BOWMAN
(Kenneth Macdonald broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
Adapted by Peter Watts from the novel by Nigel Balchin
with Alec McCowen and Isobel Black
'If I'd been a bit sillier or a bit more intelligent or had more guts, or less guts, or had two feet or no feet or been almost anything definite it would have been easy. But as it was...'
Produced by ROGER PINE
(Repeated: Monday, 3.15 pm)
A late-evening conversation in which
BARONESS PHILLIPS LORD WRIGHT OF ASHTON and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL freely exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas, and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Produced by JOHN MUSGRAVE
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV J. ELPHINSTONE-FYFFE
LAMAR CROWSON < piano)
Haydn Sonata in E flat major (Haydn Society No 25)
Beethoven Sonata in C major, Op 2 No 3
A series of recitals each including a Beethoven sonata
