for farmers
The morning magazine
Introduced by Jack de Manio
Louise Davies , gives food news comment, and suggestions for the household shopper
followed by an interlude
' The Things We Say'
Talks by the Rev. Dr. F. Lovell Cocks
5: Forget it!
by Louise Davies
: second hearing of the broadcast at 7.40 a.m.
Interval music for Schools at 9.2
Erik Saeden (baritone)
Sten Enrvik (piano)
The recorded broadcast of January 7 in the Third Programme
TIME AND TUNE
Songs to sing and music to listen to
Introduced by Kay Foster
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN Mesopotamia: 1
A visit to Sumer during the reign of Shubad (c. 2500 B.C.)
Script by Rhoda Power
11.40 LIGHT OPERA IN ENGLAND
1: Roger Fiske discusses the English theory of opera
Memories of days, past and occasions great and small
Introduced by Robert Gunnell
Forecast for land areas, followed by detailed forecast for the South-East
Gale Pedrick selects highlights from BBC sound and television
Introduced by John Ellison Edited by L. A. Woolard
CRUSOES OF SUNDAY ISLAND by Elsie K. Morton
Adapted for broadcasting by Garry Lyle
Episodes from a book describing the adventures of a family of real-life castaways on a Pacific Island
2.20 THE BIBLE AND LIFE
Christian Worship
1: How Christians Worship
Illustrated talk by the Rev. Dr. Erik Routley
2.40 LORNA DOONE by R. D. Blackmore adapted for broadcasting by Garry Lyle
1: John Ridd meets Lorna
A weekly exploration of the BBC Sound Archives
SUSSEX BY THE SEA
A journey along the Sussex Coast described by Brian Vaughton Produced by Harold Rogers
BBC Northern Orchestra Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by Victor Feldbrill
A programme for the fives to eights
Alexander Armstrong
A serial dialogue story by John D. Stewart
26: Tadpoles
Introduced by Cicely Mathews
5.15 ORBIT ONE ZERO
A play in six parts written by Peter Elliott Hayes with Felix Felton as Dr. Petrie
2: The Cylinder
' I have told you of the giant radio-telescope on the Isle of Skara, and the strange pattern of signals that were being monitored, and the finding, in a lonely cove, of a vibrating cylindrical object.'
Other parts played by members of the cast
Produced by David Davis
5.45 THE GREAT
AMERICAN RAILROAD
Its history and legends its songs and ballads
Written, narrated, and sung by Alexis Korner
2: Civil War
Produced by Claire Chovil
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick (two pianos)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Leader, Meyer Stolow
Conductor, Hugo Rignold
Part 1
Victor Allan tells a Cinderella story from real life
Part 2
True stories of the search for enemy spies in wartime, based on the memoirs of Lt.-Colonel
Oreste Pinto with Bernard Archard as Colonel Pinto
4: Like Father Like Son
Script by Robert Barr
Production by Charles Maxwell
The recorded broadcast of September 28 in the Light Programme
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
followed by an interlude
Musica da Camera Harold Clarke (flute) Joy Hall (cello)
Hubert Dawkes (harpsichord)