for farmers
Talk by Canon Christopher Evans
Talks by Canon Christopher Evans
6: What am I?
followed by an interlude
Harvey Phillips (cello)
John Wills (piano)
by Claud Jenkins
At eighty-one, Claud Jenkins is the oldest active theatrical producer in London. In this talk he describes how he-first became bitten by the bug when as a boy he went unwillingly to school by way of as many theatres and billboards as he could.
Shepherd divine. our wants relieve
(BBC H.B. 348)
New Every Morning, page 90 Psalm 23 (Broadcast psalter)
1 Corinthians 10. vv. 14-31
0 thou. who at thy Eucharist didst pray (BBC H.B. 213)
News Summary at 10.30
Piano Concerto
No. 23 in A (K.488) played by Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ferdinand Leitner
A recent gramophone record
Reports from Britain and overseas
Introduced by Bill Hartley
Tyres for the Season: an analysis by Geoffrey Hancock
Friday the Thirteenth: superstition in motoring by Sammy Davis
The Insurance Consultant: Knock for Knock Agreements
Driving with my Husband: progress report from Joan Harper
Produced by David Glencross
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
The magazine programme of the air which invites you to meet some of the stars and personalities who are In Town Today
Introduced by Nan Winton and Antony Bilbow
Produced by Peter Duncan
The Ostrich
A play for radio by ELIZABETH DAWSON
Joe Braithwaite , master cabinet-maker, is a craftsman and proud of it. But he is an old man, his business is not prospering, and young Tom, his nephew and partner, could do a lot better with Baxter's furniture factory.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Production by AUDREY CAMERON
Papillons played by Edith Vogel (piano)
Junior Theatre
THE CLITHEROE KID
Jimmy Clitheroe in Money, Money, Money with Peter Sinclair
Patricia Burke , Leonard Williams Diana Day , Peter Goodwright
Theme music written by Alan Roper and played by the BBC Northern Orchestra directed by Alyn Ainsworth
Written by James Casey and Ronnie Taylor Produced by James Casey
The recorded broadcast of April 18, 1960. in the Light Programme
5.30 VISITING DAY
John Ellison visits the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore, Middlesex, and invites some of the patients to choose a record
Forecast for land areas, followed by a- detailed forecast for the South-East region
Harry Davidson and his Orchestra with Joan Butler (soprano)
Introduced by Ivan Samson Master of Ceremonies Charles Crathorn
Produced by Fredric Bayco
The dances: Marine Fourstep; Fylde Waltz; Royal Empress Tango; Clarendon Saunter; Empress Mazurka; Victorian Gavotte ; Boston Twostep; Fifth figure of the Lancers; Imperial Waltz
The songs: Carmena; Funiculi, Funicula
Repeated on Friday at 3.0
Admission on application to [address removed], enclosing stamped addressed envelope.
The House of the Seven Flies
The novel by VICTOR CANNING adapted for radio by Kenneth Owen with James McKechnie
Other parts played by Elsa Palmer and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by R. D. SMITH
News of books and their makers in reviews, quotations and interviews
Robert Graves talks with John Wain
Raymond Postdate talks on a subject chosen by himself
Introduced by Robin Holmes
.followed by late weather forecast
Beethoven Serenade in D, Op. 8 played by the London String Trio
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Watson Forbes (viola) Vivian Joseph (cello)