Through the day on 1 and 2 News: 5.30 am 6.0 6.30 7.30
8.30 9.30 10.30 11.30 12.30 pm
1.30 2.30 3.30 4.30 5.30 6.30
7.30 10.30 11.30 12 midnight
1.0 am 2.1
Weather: 5.32 am, 6.2 6.31 7.0
7.31 8.0 8.31 9.31 5.31 pm 6.31
7.34 12.4 am 2.1
Time Big Ben : 5.30 am
GTS 7.0 10.0 (R2) 12 noon
2.0 pm (R2) 7.30
Shipping: (1,500m only)
6.40 am 1.55 pm 5.57
2.2 am (also on VHF)
Bruce Wyndham with resident bands, singers, and discs, plus news, weather, and traffic
Verses for Saturday: from RALPH RICHARDSON 'S recording of the poetry of WILLIAM BLAKE
introduces Melody Time with his two pianos THE SINGALONG CHOIR
WILF TODD AND HIS
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC
PATSY MACLEAN and the strings of the RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GEORGE FRENCH Produced by PAMELA cox
Former pilots and ground staff who took part in the Battle of Britain talk to Keith Skues about their experiences and their favourite music
Among those taking part are AIR COMM PETER BROTHERS AIR COMM ALAN DEERE
GROUP CAPT DOUGLAS BADER GROUP CAPT DON FINLAY
WING CDR BOB STANFORD-TUCK
SQN LDR GINGER LACEY
Produced by JOHNNY BEERLING
To compile this programme Keith Skues and his producer Johnny Beerling , who were both in the RAF in the 1950s, have travelled thousands of miles - to Scarborough and Washington, dc; Montreal and Great Missenden, and many other places in between. They were helped in their search by Group Captain Tom Gleave , himself a Battle of Britain pilot, who has kept in touch with many of his wartime colleagues now spread far and wide throughout the world
The Waltzes played by Orchestras from the Continent (Recordings made available by courtesy of West German Radio)
The Marches played by the BAND OF THE CORPS OF
ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS conducted by CAPT D. SNOWDEN Director of Music with MICHAEL WAKEHAM (baritone)
Introduced by JIMMY KINGSBURY Produced by ALLAN GILES
featuring the FRANK CHACKSFIELD ORCHESTRA and guests on gramophone records produced by JAMES DUFOUR
with Ken Sykora
Ray Moore with a smooth musical mixture for an autumn afternoon
Produced by DENIS LEWELL
plays and introduces
Music from Scarborough with JACK BYFIELD at the piano and THE SPA ORCHESTRA
BILL crozier introduces old time and sequence dancing with SIDNEY DAVEY AND HIS ORCHESTRA and JOHN GOWER
MC CHARLES CRATHORN , Who also brings news from the world of traditional dancing Dance leaders,
HOLLAND and SYLVIA BROCKBANK
(Given before an invited audience at The Paris, Lower Regent Street, London, SW1. Tickets can be obtained from [address removed], enclosing sae)
and Cricket close-of-play scores
invite you to
Meet Us at the Tower with this week's special guests DAVID MACBETH
LIZ DYER AND DAVE GOULDER The augmented
BBC NORTHERN DANCE ORCHESTRA conductor BERNARD HERRMANN Produced by PETER PILBEAM
(Repeated: Sunday, 3.0 pm)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor COLIN davis
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Elgar Overture: Cockaigne
Fantasia on British Sea Songs (arr Henry Wood)
Parry Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)
