(BBC recording)
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 carol for the day and a Christmas reading by Adza Vincent.
(Repeated on Tuesday at 6.50 a.m.)
Forecast for land areas
An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing.
Each day this edition includes some recorded items from the first edition.
followed by
Melody on the Move
See Light Programme
by Alistair Cooke.
(Sunday's recorded broadcast)
Margaret Ritchie (soprano), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Clifton Helliwell (piano)
(BBC recording)
Vaughan Williams's three Vocalises were written in March this year for Margaret Ritchie and first performed at the first two concerts of this year's Halle season in Manchester. A Vocalise is literally a 'song without words'.
Gramophone records of excerpts from 'The Gypsy Baron'.
Lo, he comes with clouds descending (BBC H.B. 35)
New Every Morning, page 76
Psalm 118, vv. 1-12 (Broadcast Psalter)
Isaiah 61, vv. 1-11
Be thou my guardian and my guide (BBC H.B. 135)
played by the BBC Northern Ireland Light Orchestra
(Leader, David Adams)
Conductor, David Curry
Minuet in G (Paderewski)
Prelude in E flat minor, Op. 23 No. 9 (Rachmaninov)
Barcarolle (Rachmaninov)
Gavotte (Prokofiev)
The Smuggler (Schumann, arr. Tausig)
on a gramophone record
Conducted by Sir John Summerson.
Radio: James Kennaway
Book: Margaret Lane
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Dilys Powell
Theatre: Lionel Hale
(Sunday's recorded broadcast)
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie)
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Herbert Downes (viola)
Forecast for land areas.
Memories of thirty years of sound films.
Interviews with Sir Michael Balcon, Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle.
Speech and music from films of the last three decades.
Including the voices of: John Boles, Ernest Borgnine, Marlon Brando, Jack Buchanan, Charles Chaplin, Maurice Chevalier, Bing Crosby. Doris Day, Marlene Dietrich, Donald Duck, Jimmy Durante, Deanna Durbin, Nelson Eddy, Judy Garland, Alec Guinness, Juanita Hall, Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, Al Jolson, Burt Lancaster, Charles Laughton, Jeanette MacDonald, Anna Magnani, Jessie Matthews, Marilyn Monroe, Anna Neagle, Laurence Olivier, Shirley Ross, Frank Sinatra, Richard Tauber, Shirley Temple, Mae West
Compiled and introduced by Gordon Gow.
(Recording)
played by Fritz Kreisler (violin), Franz Rupp (piano).
on a gramophone record
The novel by Andrew Garve.
adapted by Eileen Cullen.
[Starring] Geoffrey Keen and Gordon Jackson
(Last Saturday's recorded broadcast)
Forecast for land areas, followed by detailed forecast for the South-East region.
A gallery of portraits in close-up.
Philosopher, theologian, and musiclan-a great European who has spent most of his life ministering to the sick in Africa-as seen chiefly through the eyes of those who have worked with him there.
Introduced by Wyn Knowles.
(BBC recording)
Repeated on Tuesday at 11.30 a.m.
with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan
The Ray Ellington Quartet, Max Geldray
(BBC recording)
(Peter Sellers is in "Brouhaha" at the Aldwych Theatre, London)
Repeated on Wednesday at 9.30 (Light)
by Peter Ustinov.
Adapted for radio by Robin Midgley.
Guitar played by George Elliott
Music for the songs composed by Antony Hopkins for the original stage play
(BBC recording)
See page 5
Eli Goren (violin), Clifton Helliwell (piano)
(BBC recording)