A series of talks for Advent by the Very Rev. George F. MacLeod, D.D.
(Recording of Tuesday's broadcast)
Forecast for land areas
An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing.
A breakfast-time magazine bringing you news, views, and interviews.
A series of talks for Advent by the Very Rev. George F. MacLeod, D.D.
(Repeated on Thursday at 6.50 a.m.)
Forecast for land areas
A bulletin of food news to guide the household shopper.
(BBC recording)
Solange de la Motte (soprano), Frederick Stone (piano)
(BBC recording)
Gramophone records of excerpts from the Church Cantatas.
On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (BBC H.B. 38)
New Every Morning, page 61
Psalm 97 (Broadcast Psalter)
Isaiah 57, vv. 15-21
O day of God, draw nigh (BBC H.B. 24)
Ken Beaumont and his Sextet
Directed by Harold C. Gee
Five short stories by W.W. Jacobs.
Adapted for radio by Lionel Brown.
(The recorded broadcast of January 5 in the Light Programme)
Requests from overseas listeners.
See Light Programme
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region.
A short story by Bill Naughton.
Read by Deryck Guyler.
'As he watched Murphy swiftly roll up his shirt sleeves, almost to the shoulder, he thought "There's the unskilled man". Then he saw Smith, a tall pale man, adjust his arm bands. "That's more like it. I'd lay ten to one he'd win, if I were a betting man...."'
For Edgar Kay the contest between Smith and Murphy was more than just a game of bowls; it was part of a deeper economic struggle between the skilled and unskilled man.
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 5)
Overture, Leonora No. 3 (Beethoven): Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler.
Symphony No. 4. in F minor (Tchaikovsky): Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Sanderling.
on gramophone records
A play for radio by Leslie Halward.
[Starring] Philip Garston-Jones and Marjorie Westbury
The action takes place in and around Birmingham and the Black Country. In the small pond of his shiftless group of companions Perce Morris is a big fish; it is only in the confines of his own home that he meets his match-in the shape of his widowed mother.
(The recorded broadcast of February 21, 1957, in the Midland Home Service)
Roman Catholic Vespers sung by the monks of Worth Priory, Sussex.
Introduced by the Prior, Father Victor Farwell, O.S.B.
Introduction
Deus in adjutorium: Gloria Patri (Plainchant)
Psalms 134, 135, 136, and 137
Little Chapter: Genesis 49. v. 10
Hymn: Conditor alme siderum (Plainchant)
Magnificat Antiphon: O Sapientia (Plainchant)
Magnificat
Pater Noster Collect
Motet: Hail, Blessed Virgin Mary (Italian Carol)
Advice and entertainment for retired people and older people generally, and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their welfare.
Free, Gratis, and For Nothing: Margaret Spencer Smith recommends that we should take advantage of the entertainments our own town provides for us.
Visiting: May Hankey reflects on the amenities of today and yesterday.
Presented by Douglas Smith.
(Next week's edition of 'Indian Summer' will be at 1.40 p.m.)
Matilda spends Christmas at Plumley
Another Matilda Mouse story by Dora Broome.
told by Wilfred Pickles.
(BBC recording)
The Treasure in the Folly
A Christmas adventure of the Nortons by Winifred Finlay.
(BBC recording)
5.50 Children's Hour prayers
conducted by the Rev. Eric Barber.
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region.
with Lawrence Brown (tenor and piano) in a programme of spirituals.
On gramophone records
A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions.
London: Professor Denis Brogan, Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
North: Professor W. Lyon Blease, Dennis Chapman
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding
(BBC recording)
(To be repeated on Thursday at 1.10)
Elsie Morison (soprano), Pamela Bowden (contralto), Richard Lewis (tenor), Gordon Clinton (bass-baritone), William Overton (trumpet), George Malcolm (harpsichord),
Charles Spinks (organ)
London Philharmonic Choir
(Chorus-Master, Frederic Jackson)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
followed by late weather forecast for land areas
The Robert Masters Piano Quartet: Robert Masters (violin), Nannie Jamieson (viola), Muriel Taylor (cello), Ross Pratt (piano)
(BBC recording)
(Next Wednesday: Mendelssohn's Piano Quartet in F minor, Op. 2)
