for farmers
Readings and carols
Friday's recorded broadcast
Readings and carols arranged by the Rev. W. D. Kennedy-Bell with the Saint Martin Singers
Seven variations on the duet:
Bei MSnnern , welche Liebe fuhlen from Mozart's ' The Magic Flute' played by Pierre Fournier (cello) Friedrich Gulda (piano) on a gramophone record
Work in the world of science
CERAMICS by N. F. Astbury , SC.D., Director of Research.
British Ceramic Research Association
Bricks and tiles, drainpipes and fine porcelain, furnace linings and electrical insulators-these are just a few of the applications of ceramics in daily life. Research faces the challenge of reducing an empirical craft to an exact science.
Last Thursday's recorded broadcast in Network Three
by Elsie Hall
by Rose Marie Hodgson who looks at some of the more absurd stories from the year's news
0 Christ, redeemer of our race
(BBC H.B. 54)
New Every Morning, page 68
Canticle 6, part 2
Colossians 1. vv. 3-17
Jesu. thou joy of loving hearts
(BBC H.B. 323)
Anton and his Orchestra
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Rudolf Kempe
Waltz: Dynamiden (Josef Strauss ) Intermezzo (A Thousand and One
Nights) (Johann Strauss )
Waltz: Tales from the Vienna
Woods (Johann Strauss ) a recent gramophone record
Reports from Britain and overseas
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Professor Jimmy Edwards submits a weekly school report with Roddy Maude-Roxby as Aubrey Potter
Frederick Treves as Alfred Tennyson Norman Shelley as Sir Charles Roy Dotrice as Mr. Foster Roger Shepherd as Lumley David L-ott as Taplow
Script adapted by David Climie from an original by Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Produced by Edward Taylor
Recorded broadcast of August 22 in the Light Programme
Paul Gallico, in a recorded programme, discusses with Roy Plomley the gramophone records he would choose to have with him if he were condemned to spend the rest of his life on a desert island.
(Previously broadcast on December 4)
Miles Malleson in The Chimes by CHARLES DICKENS dramatised for radio by Mollie Hardwick
Music composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen
A goblin story of some bells that rang an old year out and a new year in. The action takes place in London on New Year's Eve, 1845. The Voice of the Bells The Amhrosian Singers
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Harold Blackburn broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
Gale Pedrick selects highlights of BBC sound and television broadcasts from more than one thousand items featured as the Pick of the Week
Introduced by John Ellison
Edited by Kenneth Pragnell
A musical programme for children under five
Introduced by Peter Hawkins
The 100th adventure of the boy detectives written by Anthony C. Wilson with Harold Reese as Norman Bones, Patricia Hayes as Henry, his cousin
"I don't expect an immediate decision, naturally. But if you feel the place would suit you, and we can come to terms over the price, there seems no point in delaying things longer than necessary, does there?"
A selection of your record requests played by Graham Gauld
Postcards should be sent to:
Luck of the Draw, BBC, London, W.1.
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
(See above and page 3)
by Philip Mackie
adapted for radio by Gale Pedrick
A conversation piece between a film star, his brother, his agent, his wife, and his prospective mistress, which takes place just after the discovery of a murder, and during which the truth about their secret relationships emerges.
Reviewers' choice
Some regular contributors look back over the books of the Old Year
Peter Lawson describes his ' education by accident'
Introduced by Michael Vowden
' Pardon for the past,
Peace for the present, Power for the future'
Stanley Pritchard talks about three wishes for the last days of the year
followed by late weather forecast
Raymond Cohen (violin)
Anthya Rael (piano)
