The old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle read by CYRIL FLETCHER
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(from Birmingham)
from Brighton Central Free Church: conducted by THE REV EMRYS WALTERS
Hymns (Congregational Praise): Brightest and best (94); Hark the glad sound! (74): God from on high hath heard (82): As with gladness men of old (95) Readings: Isaiah 9, vv 2, 6, 7 St Luke 2. vv 1-14
Organist ERIC WELLINGS Choirmaster IAN COPLEY
visits Wolverhampton where an audience invited by the Road Safety Council puts questions to MRS ELWYN REED , driving school proprietor and instructor; JOHN MILES, of the BSM High Performance Course: GEOFFREY HANCOCK , Birmingham Mail; MARTYN WATKINS , motoring writer Chairman PETER WEST
Produced by JIM PESTRIDGE at 11.43* the latest traffic report
A countrywide look at politics from outside Westminster Presented from Bristol bv GEORGE SCOTT
Produced by ANTHONY SMITH
A special holiday edition
Introduced by Michael Flanders A selection from what's going on in the arts - including the Sadler's Wells production of the Cole Porter musical Kiss Me Kate; the film of E. Nesbit 's classic story The Railway Children; and the music-hall tradition in the theatre and on radio and television.
Produced by ROSEMARY HART and ALAN HAYDOCK
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
Members of the Haxey and District Agricultural Society put their questions to
FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL Question-master
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Produced by KENNETH FORD
A House in the Square by Diana Morgan with Sonia Dresdel
Betty Huntley-Wright and Michael Gwynn
The action takes place in London between 1910 and 1965. Produced by David Davis
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Produced by PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)
Questions to Talking About Antiques, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
During World War II nearly 200,000 men were held prisoner in German and Japanese hands, among them a fair sprinkling of naturalists. For them, life behind the wire at least held one compensation - they could still continue their studies of birds, insects, and plants.
Reminiscences by a group of 1 barbed-wire naturalists.
A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
From the Touchlines: JACK STAMPS, who was a professional footballer before he lost his sight, and RON STATON , a keen football fan, discuss with GEORGE MILLER how blind people can best follow the sport
Preparing for Summer: MARGARET FORD talks to BRIAN NEAL about holiday arrangements available for blind people Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Produced by THENA HESHEL
The London Palladium
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the London Palladium
Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD (Extended version: Wed, 7.30)
by George Eliot, adapted as a serial for radio in 12 parts by Howard Agg
with Angela Pleasence, Martin Jarvis, Megs Jenkins and Anthony Bate
'Now I can turn my eyes towards the mill again, and watch the unresting wheel sending out its diamond jets of water. That little girl is watching it too: she has been standing on just the same spot at the edge of the water ever since I paused on the bridge.'
(Repeated: Tuesday, 3.0 pm)
(Megs Jenkins is in 'The Winslow Boy' at the New Theatre, London)
A professional broadcaster talks on a subject which has caught his attention. Tonight: Ian Mclntyre
About people-what they believe and what they do
c. DAY LEWIS, Poet Laureate appeals on behalf of Dove Cottage , for many years the much-loved home of a former Laureate, William Wordsworth. Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: Wordsworth Bicentenary Appeal. [address removed]
A concert of recordings made available by courtesy of Austrian and West German Radios . Part 1
Overture: Leonora No 3
7.46* Symphony No 8, in F major
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
(Beethoven's Missa solemnis can be heard in the second part of this concert, at 8.35)
MATTHEW NORGATE makes another return journey - this time to the West Country
Mass in D major (Missa solemnis)
ANNELIES KUPPER (soprano)
SIEGLINDE WAGNER (contralto) RUDOLF SCHOCK (tenor) JOSEF GREINDL (bass)
NORTH GERMAN RADIO CHORUS WEST GERMAN RADIO CHORUS WEST GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER -(1955 recording)
9.58 Weather
A personal anthology of prose and poetry chosen and read before an invited audience by Mrs Mary Wilson. She is joined in the studio by Rupert Davies who reads some of Mrs Wilson's selections for her.
He humbled himself
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