Some prayers and music for the first day of the week,
at the BBC Theatre Organ presents a programme of requests, and music from the HAMMONDS SAUCE WORKS' BAND conductor GEOFFREY WHITHAM Producer PETER pilbeah BBC Manchester
Alec Taylor visits children's choirs all over Britain in search of songs and hymns tor Sunday morning. This week: Choirs from Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich
Producer MICHAEL SHOESMITH BBC Birmingham
introduces Melodies for Yon BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA led by ARTHUR PRICE conducted by KENNETH ALWYN
THE REGINALD LEOPOLD ORCHESTRA with EDMUND BOHAN
Producer PETER BELL
The second of three programmes from a studio in London. led by REV DONALD REEVES Hope for the Futuret Producer FRANK TOPPING
Introduced by Jean Challis
With MARAMA MARTIN, I Radio New Zealand JOHN CRABTREE ,
BFBS Cyprus and Masirah PETER MCDONAGH , BFBS Malta STEVE COSSER, ABC Sydney Producer PAM cox
(15 August: New Zealand, BFBS Cyprus and Masirah, Guyana and Australia)
Conceived, nurtured and done by Tim Brooke-Taylor Barry Cryer John Junkin with the music (?) of the Denis King Trio
Written by BARRY CRYER and JOHN JUNKIN
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS BBC Manchester *
(Repeated: Saturday 7.2 pm) '
A celebration of 50 years of film musicals
'Shirley Temple was very quick. They'd take her in a room, play the song. and she had a wonderful knack of memorising music. Then she'd learn the lines and it wasn't hard at all. I think she was natural.'
(David Butler)
'We were preparing a film called Three Smart Girls, and I heard that Metro Studios had two young ladies in a one reeler, and I sent for the film. I actually liked Judy Garland, but I couldn't get her, so I took Deanna Durbin.'
(Joe Pasternak)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr tells the story of making musicals out of innocence and purity, sweetness and light.
Also taking part:
David Butler, Irving Caesar, Alice Faye, Jack Haley Sr, Donald O'Connor, Joe Pasternak, Norman Taurog and Shirley Temple
(Douglas Fairbanks Jr is In 'The Pleasure of his Company' at the Phoenix Theatre. London)
says Thanks for the Memory to you, and adds a few reminiscences of his own
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
Bob Monkhouse continues his investigation into what makes American comedy American in the second of three programmes, with recorded illustrations from
FRED ALLEN and JACK BENNY
TALLULAH BANKHEAD
BURNS AND
ALLEN SID CAESAR and IMOGEN COCA GEORGE CARLIN , BILL COSBY W. C. FIELDS, BOB NEWHART
CARL REINER and MEL BROOKS
ALLAN SHERMAN
FLIP WILSON and many others
Script by PETER CLAYTON Producer SIMON BRETT
from Strathallan School, Forgandenny, Perthshire
Introduced by BLAIR ARMSTRONG Organist and Choirmaster BARRY BALL
Conductor of Praise GORDON WEST Prayer and Blessing by the Chaplain, REV bill MONTEITH
Praise, my soul (Praise, my Soul): 0 worship the King (Hanover); Holy, holy, holy (Sanctus: Schubert); Son of God. eternal saviour (Beethoven Chorale); City of God (Richmond): Be still, my soul (Finlandia); A fortress sure (Ein' feste Burg); Magnificat, for unison voices (B. Ball): Love divine, all loves excelling (Hyfrydol)
BBC Scotland
Direct from the Assembly Hall, Worthing
Vilem Tausky conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS with ANNE EVANS
DEFEK HAMMOND STROUD PHILIP CHALLIS (piano)
Introduced by Alan Keith Producer
CHARLES CLARK-MAXWELL
(Presented in association with Worthing Corporation)
The 1976 Olympic Games are under way, and each evening for the next fortnight Olympics 76 will bring you the pick of the action in Montreal, and the best of Radio 2 Music.
The first gold medals of the Games will be won tonight. with two swimming finals on the programme, and Britain's hopes in the 200m butterfly carriedbytheCommonwealth Champion Brian Brinkley. You can hear comrnentary by PETER JONES and expert analysis by Olympic gold medal winner, ANITA LONSBROUGH.
Plus up-to-the-minute news of all the other events, headline summaries every half-hour, comment on the issues of the moment. special checks on the performances of the British team in every sport, and interviews with the personalities involved in the Olympic action at home and abroad.
A Radio Sports Unit and Radio 2 Music co-production.
1.30-2.31* am News Summary
