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8.10 Sunday Papers
8.20 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye (Make Yourself at Home)
A programme for listeners from India and Pakistan
8.20 (On VHF and Ramsgate)
Sing Alleluia: introduced by ANDREW CRUICKSHANK
Young people from junior and senior schools and colleges sing hymns and songs both old and new
Produced by STEWART CROSS
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
Andrew Cruickshank
Produced By:
Stewart Cross

from Eltham Congregational Church conducted by the Minister, THE REV RONALD M. WARD
Lessons (NEB): 1 Kings 17, vv 8-16; Matthew 26, vv 6-13 and Mark 12, vv 41-44
Hymns (cp): Sweet is the work (603); Jesus shall reign (158); 0 thou who earnest from above (438); We give immortal praise (220)
Organist and choirmaster MICHAEL MUSGRAVE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald M. Ward
Choirmaster:
Michael Musgrave

Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
The Minister of Transport, THE RT HON JOHN PEYTON , MP, talking to NEVILLE POWLEY
Dazzle and Dip: DOUGLAS MITCHELL, Editor of Popular Motoring Some more thoughts on Insurance: RONALD BEALE together with topical news and at 11.43* the latest traffic report Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
John Peyton
Unknown:
Neville Powley
Unknown:
Ronald Beale
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips

A selective look at the arts p. J. Kavanagh introduces this week's choice from what is new and what is always around us, and talks to people who have a special interest in what he has seen and heard. Produced by PATRICIA BRENT and ROSEMARY HART
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduces:
J. Kavanagh
Produced By:
Patricia Brent
Produced By:
Rosemary Hart

The One O'Clock News leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report on the world around us, with the latest news, the background to the news, and the people in the news: presented by David Jessel
Editor HARRY BROWN

Contributors

Presented By:
David Jessel
Presented By:
Editor Harry Brown

FRANKLIN ENGELMANN invites
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post Produced by KENNETH FORD Questions should be on postcards and addressed to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Fred Loads,
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Produced By:
Kenneth Ford

by WILKIE COLLINS freely dramatised for radio in four parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM
Andrew Treverton and Shrowl have paid a visit to Porthgenna Tower to search for the secret letter and have been frightened off by the ' ghosts ' set up by Mr Phippen. Rosamond has caught Mrs Jazeph reading Mr Phippen's letter describing the haunting. 3: Consumed by Flames
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilkie Collins
Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Mrs Jazeph:
Margaret Wolfit
Rosamond:
Elizabeth Proud
Leonard Frankland:
Brian Hewlett
Dr Chennery:
Peter Williams
Mr Phippen:
James Thomason
Betty:
Penelope Lee
Mr Munder:
Wilfred Babrage
Mrs Pentreath:
Margot Boyd
Shrowl:
Alexander John
Andrew Treverton:
Malcolm Hayes

A Penny for an Urchin
Today's programme looks at the hedgehog - at the same time one of the most persecuted and one of the most popular of our animals - at the curious legends surrounding it, and the truths which are even stranger.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Produced by DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
(Repeated: Wed, 9.5 am)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Produced By:
Dilys Breese

A magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Home for the Holidays: blind schoolchildren talk to GEORGE MILLER about the way they occupy their time
Worth Hearing: a further selection of Talking Books by HONOR WYATT
Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKBALL
Produced by THENA HESHEL
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
George Miller
Introduced By:
David Scott Blackball
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

'twixt ISOBEL BARNETT
ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD and RICHARD MURDOCH , DAVID NIXON -
. Tune-twisters from STEVE RACE
In the chair ROY PLOMLEY Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Produced by PETER TITIIERADGE (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Written By:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
Peter Titiieradge

A concert of recordings from 1 the Vienna and Helsinki Festivals Part 1
Beethoven
Overture: Conolan
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted-by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.40* Piano Concerto No 4, in G major: EMIL GILELS HELSINKI CITY
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by NEEME JÄRVI
8.16* Symphony No 5. in c minor BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by VON KARAJAN

Contributors

Piano:
Herbert von Karajan
Conducted By:
Von Karajan

E. H. Shepard
We know what Winnie the Pooh and Kanga and Eeyore looked like as we know what Toad and Badger and Mole looked like, because E. H. SHEPARD illustrated both A. A. Milne 's The House at Pooh Corner and Kenneth Grahame 's The Wind in the Willows.
He lives now in Sussex where he talked to PATRICK HARVEY

Contributors

Unknown:
E. H. Shepard
Unknown:
E. H. Shepard
Unknown:
A. A. Milne
Unknown:
Kenneth Grahame
Unknown:
Patrick Harvey

Part 2: Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 6, in B minor (Pathetique)
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID OISTRAKH
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Austrian and Finnish Radios)
Beethoven Symphonies and Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos, both in the series of BBC Music Guides, may be obtained through booksellers or by sending a crossed po to BBC Publications.[address removed] Price 6s each (postage and packing Is 3d each).
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Conducted By:
David Oistrakh

With recordings of actors and poets from Yeats to Ginsberg.

Derek Parker discusses the problem of reading poetry aloud.

The actors are Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Laurence Olivier and the poets are T. S. Eliot, William Empson, Allen Ginsberg, Adrian Henri, Ted Hughes, Brian Patten, Ezra Pound, William Plomer, Dame Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas and W.B. Yeats

(Listen to the voice of the talking mongoose: page 11)

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Parker
Producer:
Denys Gueroult

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