for farmers
The morning magazine
Introduced by Jack de Manto
followed by an interlude
Wise Men from the East
A talk by the Rev. Edwin Robertson
Suite : Lieutenant Kizhe
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult on a gramophone record
Hail and Farewell
' Launching- a Barge ' by Iris Bryce
' Scrapping a Battleship ' by Frank Goldsworthy
Introduced by Jack Singleton
Stanislav Heller (harpsichord)
Weber Gramophone records of some of his instrumental music
by Sheila Burnford abridged by Honor Wyatt read by Ronald Wilson Fifth of ten instaJments
: first broadcast in September 1961
Anita Cerquetti (soprano) with the Orchestra of Florence Maggio Musicale Conducted by Giandrea Gavezzeni
Arias by Spontini, Verdi, and Puccini on a gramophone record
Directed by Ernest Pehfold
Captain Norman Button talks to Max Robertson
What was it like to serve at sea in the days of sail? Should an officer keep order with his gun or his fists? Now over eighty years of age, and having first gone to sea at the age of thirteen, Captain Button looks back on a long, and never easy, life.
Production by John Tusa
BBC Concert Orchestra Leader, William Armon
Conductor, Vilem Tausky
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
A spontaneous discussion by Ralph Wightman
Victor Mishcon
Denzil Batchelor
Anne Scott-James
Travelling Question-Master, Freddy Grisewood
Arranged by Michael Bowen
From the Memorial Hall, Downton, Wiltshire
Recording of last Friday's broadcast in the Light Programme
Introduced by Martin Starkie
Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick (two pianos)
by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY dramatised as a serial for broadcasting in thirteen parts by Howard Agg 1: Fair Ophelia Produced by MARTYN C WEBSTER
Sunday's recorded broadcast
A programme for the fives to eights
Frank Luther tells the story of Three Billy Goats Gruff on a gramophone record
Introduced by David Davis
Your questions answered by Peter Scott
James Fisher
Desmond Morris
Chairman, Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mac)
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Script adapted by Edward Ward from ' The Big Network ' by ROMAN GARBY-CZERNIAWSKI with James McKechnie and Mary Wimbush
Other parts played by Wilfred Babbage , Derek Blomfield John Bryning , Leigh Crutchley William Eedle , Malcolm Hayes Philip Leaver , Rolf Lefebvre Will Leighton , Philip Morant
Julian Somers , Anthony Viccars and Geoffrey Wincott
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The Journey from the Dark by Edward Blishen
'... if we could but remember it might make us more patient, for in some ways children are back in the dark and lonely beginnings of history, before language was mastered and rules made, and we have travelled and forgotten the thousands of dangerous years children have to travel before they can step, like us, unafraid into the daily world ...'
The News
Background to the News People in the News
by Nevil Shute abridged by Terry Gompertz read by Gabriel Woolf
Second of fifteen instalments
Carl Dolmetsch (recorder)
Joseph Saxby
(harpsichord and piano)
The Martin String Quartet David Martin (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Eileen Grainger (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello)
