A short programme to introduce the service.
Speakers,
The Rt. Hon. James Griffiths, M.P., Secretary of State for Wales
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor of Cardiff
The Deputy Mayor of Newport
Professor Glanmor Williams, Chairman, Broadcasting Council for Wales
David Attenborough, Controller, BBC-2
Alun Oldfield-Davies, Controller, BBC Wales
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from The Rectory Field, Blackheath under 'knock-out' rules.
In their final match of the 1965 Season
The International Cavaliers XI
Captain, Denis Compton
play
A West Indies XI
Garfield Sobers (Captain) (Barbados), Rohan Kanhai (British Guiana), Everton Weekes (Barbados), Deryck Murray (Trinidad), Danny Livingstone (Antigua), Lance Gibbs (British Guiana), Ron Headley (Jamaica), Carlton Forbes (Jamaica), Lester King (Jamaica), John Shepherd (Barbados), Keith Boyce (Barbados)
The BBC-2 awards for this series will be presented by Huw Wheldon, Controller Programmes, BBC Television.
Introduced by Frank Bough.
Organised by the International Cavaliers Cricket Club in aid of the Leukemia Research Fund
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(to 16.00)
A further visit to Blackheath.
(to 18.30)
for the deaf and hard of hearing
A look at the news of the week with film from all over the world and a commentary that can be seen as well as heard.
A Reminiscence in five parts by J. B. Priestley.
Prologue written by John Terraine.
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Part 1: Into the Unknown January-May 10
Part 2: The Glare and the Shock May 10-June 4
Interlude
In the Interlude Robert Dougall reads a News Bulletin compiled from those broadcast in the BBC Home Service on June 7-9, 1940.
Part 3: The Dark Horizon June 4-July 10
Part 4: The Throbbing Sky July 10-September 6
Part 5: The Private Victory September 7-December 31
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BBC documentary in five parts written by J.B. Priestley, the voice of Britain's radio war bulletins and narrated by Robert Harris.
by Vincent Tilsley
A telephone call... an alibi for the murder of a wife?
The series which seeks to reconstruct notable trials in terms of how the jurors thought, and how they reached their decision, has ranged over cases going back to the seventeenth century-political trials, common crimes, scandals, and causes celebres. Tonight it looks at a baffling affair which happened relatively close to the present. In the drab, depression-gripped Liverpool of the 1930s William Herbert Wallace worked as an insurance agent for the Prudential and spent his spare time playing violin and piano duets with his rather mousy wife Julia - except for a weekly visit to his chess club.
One night a mysterious message arrived for Wallace at the club: would he call the following evening at a certain address on a business matter? But the address proved to be fictitious, and while Wallace was (supposedly) combing Liverpool for it, Julia was brutally battered to death.
Despite this 'alibi' Wallace was charged with the murder, and at the trial the prosecution sought to suggest that he had planned his wife's death with great care, the well-attested alibi being a major element in the plan. But the pathologist gave his opinion that the killing seemed the outcome of maniac impulse, not of cold calculation; furthermore, there was no apparent motive such as financial gain or 'another woman.' As Wallace's counsel said in court, 'the story for the defence does not sound very likely; but the story for the prosecution does not sound very likely either.'
Tonight's dramatic version is by the prolific television writer Vincent Tilsley, and direction is by Joan Craft. Wallace is played by Deryck Guyler, an actor busy on both radio and television in parts ranging from high drama to Michael Bentine's Square World.
Round off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian, Joan Bakewell and tonight's guests.
