for farmers
The morning magazine
Introduced by Jack de Manio
followed by an interlude
A scientist tries to answer some of her own questions
A talk by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale
followed by an interlude
Douglas Young talks about William McGonagall, author of The Tay Bridge Disaster and other poetic gems; and J. Leslie Nightingale about George R. Sims, author of Christmas Day in the Workhouse and other moving ballads.
Introduced by Jack Singleton
Prelude and Fugue in A flat major French Suite No. 2, in C minor
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major Prelude and Fugue in G major played by Valda Aveling (clavichord)
Eighth of twelve programmes to include all the French and English Suites and Book 2 of the Well-tempered Clavier
Pierre and Jacqueline Mathieu have their own small motorboat at Tourengeville. One day they go off in the boat for a bathe, when they hear a cry for help.
Listeners are also invited to answer questions put by Pierre Lefevre and to sing with him ' Musette,' a song by J.-P. Rameau
Script by Emile Harven
Early Stages in French series
played by Ian Stewart and his Quartet
A topical programme for older children
The subject for next week will be announced at the end of this broadcast.
Programme 3
Speaker, a consultant psychiatrist
Sixth Forms series: The Christian Religion and its Philosophy
Franz Reizenstein (piano)
BBC Scottish Orchestra Leader, Peter Gibbs
Conductor, Norman Del Mar
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
A spontaneous discussion by Lady Barnett
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
J. P. W. Mallalieu , M.P.
Peter Rawlinson , M.P.
Travelling Question-Master, Freddy Grisewood
Arranged by Michael Bowen From the School Hall, Blagdon, Somerset
The youth of the bandleader born in New Orleans in 1900 Script by Maurice Whitbread
Stories from World History series
A dramatic programme about the life of the great Italian violinist Script by Sam Langdon
Adventures in Music series
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE adapted by H. Oldfield Box EPISODE 8
Produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL
in a recorded programme plays
Records for You introducing, on a personal note, his many friends from the world of entertainment
Kenneth Cooke , G.M. describes his wartime ordeal at sea to Phil Drabble
Kenneth Cooke , now head keeper on a Staffordshire Estate, served in the Merchant Navy during the war. In 1943 his ship was torpedoed in the South Atlantic and sank within a few minutes. After several hours in the water he managed eventually to reach a small and already overcrowded raft and he was fifty days on it before being sighted and picked up. He was then one of two stin left alive.
Produced by PAUL HUMPHREYS
Recorded broadcast of March 14
Stuart Hibberd introduces
Violet Heald to talk about ' Being between Jobs,' the gaps between full time posts that are both necessary and inevitable as years go by
at the piano
Second of three programmes Produced by Graham Gauld
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
by Simon RAVEN
An impression of life in a college of one of the older universities
Produced by NESTA PAIN
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The News
Background to the News
People in the News
10.59 Weather forecast
Liszt
Apres une lecture de Dante played by John Clegg (piano)
