for farmers
The morning magazine
Introduced by Jack de Manio
Louise Davies gives food news comment and suggestions
foMowed by an interlude
Christian Aid Week
3 : Hunger for Land
Speaker, John Green
.: second, hearing of the broadcast at 7.40 a.m.
Georgina Dobnee (clarinet) Alexander Kelly (piano)
LAZY TARO
How an idle and impudent Japanese boy who was treated kindiy at last made good (c. A.D. 920)
A story from World History Script by Phyllis Drayson
Glorious things of thee are spoken
(BBC H.B. 176)
New Every Morning, page 96 Psalm 82 (Broadcast psalter) Hebrews 8. vv. 1-13
Thy Kingdom come! (BBC H.B. 28)
Leader, William Armon
Conductor, Vilem Tausky
Lancashire v. The Australians at Old Trafford Essex v. Middlesex at Brentwood
First day
Commentary by John Arlott and Bob Richardson from Old
Trafford, and by Rex Alston from Brentwood
Country tunes and songs from the British Isles and abroad played by Willie Walker and his Band with Christina Short
Produced by Richard Kelly
Forecast for land areas. followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Jon Perrwee as Chief Petty Officer Pertwee
Leslie Phillips as Sub-Lieut. Phillips
Stephen Murray as Lieut. Murray , the No. with Richard Caldicot
Heather Chasen , Ronnie Barker Tenniel Evans , Michael1 Bates Script by Laurie Wyman
Produced by Alaslair Scott Johnston The recorded broadcast of December 21. 1960, in the Light Programme
THE TRAVELS OF MAY MOUSE by Olive Dove
Harebell Farm is noisy, so May Mouse visits the town in search of peace. Let's Join In Series
2.20 THE WEATHER IN MUSIC
Some musicali descriptions of both fine and tough weather
Second of two talks by Arthur Langford
2.40 H.M.S. AMETHYST AND THE
CHINESE COMMUNISTS
Commander J. S. Kerans , D.S.O., R.M., Member of Parliament for the Hartlepools, takes part in a dramatic reconstruction of the incident on the Yangtse river in July 1949 when the frigate Amethyst, after being held by the Chinese Communists, escaped by night and rejoined the Fleet.
Script by Commander Kerans in collaboration with Stephen Usherwood
Schools Modern History series
Current Attraction by AlLEEN BURKE and LEONE STEWART
Dylan means well when he buys his wife a washing-machine for her birthday, without realising that she won't be able to use it. But Annie, too tactful to spoil his little surprise, hits on a solution to please them both.
Produced by ROBIN MIDGLEY
Lancashire v. The Australians
Essex v. Middlesex
Further commentary
D. C. Horton recalls some more of his experiences as a District Officer in the Solomon Islands
2: In Hazard
Recorded broadcast of Nov. 5, 1960
A programme for the fives to eights
THE PRINCESS'S
HANDKERCHIEFS
A story by Margaret Baker told by Bernadette Hodgson
A play in three instalments adapted by Thea Holme from the novel by MARGERY SHARP
1: The Prisoners' Aid Society
' Get him out! Impossible! No one ever got out of that terrible place! '
Produced by Graham Gauld
Vote for the winning discs played by Graham Gauld
Postcards should be sent to Children's Programmes (Sound), BBC, London, W.I.
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Jack Train , Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions and Kenneth Home knows some of the answers
Produced by C. F. Meehan
Concert : Part 1
See column 3
1861-1941 by Francis Watson
For the West three-quarters of the stature of Rabindranath Tagore is submerged, like an iceberg, beneath our general ignorance of the Bengali language and culture. What we could see we honoured with the Nobel Prize and a legend of symbolic serenity. This centenary comment searches behind the legend tor a man burdened by fame yet unwilling to forgo it.
Part 2
A Party Political broadcast on behalf of the CONSERVATIVE AND
UNIONIST PARTY by Dr. the Rt. Hon. Charles Hil M.P. ,
guitar plays music by Frescobaldi and Joaquin Rodrigo on a gramophone record
Beethoven
Sonata in F minor, Op. 57
(Appassionata)
Bagatelle in G minor, Op. 119 No. 1 played by Peter Element (piano)