for farmers
The morning magazine
Introduced by Michael de Morgan
Louise Davies gives food news for the household shopper
(BBC recording)
followed by an interlude
Talks by the Rev. Douglas S. Quy
Louise Davies gives food news
(BBC recording: second hearing of the broadcast at 7.40)
Last of three talks by Darrell Bates
(Recorded broadcast of Aug. 19, 1961)
Opening Music: Handel's Concerto Grosso No. 12
Lord of all hopefulness (S.P. 565; D.S. 79: BBC Supplement 13; Tune, Slane - S.P. 565)
Interlude: People at Work
Prayers: the Prayer for Today; the Lord's Prayer
Father, hear the prayer we offer (S.P. 487: D.S. 123; P.H. 120; BBC Supplement 11; Tune, Gott will's machen - S.P. 487)
Closing Music: Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
Klavierstucke, Op. 76
Intermezzo in E flat minor, Op. 118 No. 6
played by Diana Okkalides (piano)
The Felix King Quintet
The BBC Observer from the past visits Athens (e. 433 B.C.) and attends a meeting of the Assembly
A serial story based on the American classic by Mark Twain
Humphrey Pakington reflects on some of the changes taking place in the pattern of village life and on the problem of reconciling new with old.
The speaker lives in Worcestershire where he is Chairman of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. Before the war he wrote a book English Villages and Hamlets which has become a standard work on the subject.
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Gale Pedrick selects highlights from BBC sound and television
Introduced by John Ellison
by R. Allan Murray
A programme about the jangadeiroe of Mucuripe. near Fortaleza
Questions about Religion
An Indian story by A.G. Lias
Ram Chandra sets out on his travels
Stories and Rhymes series
The London Grass Court Championships
Commentary by Maurice Edelston during the semi-finals
From the Queen's Club, London
BBC Welsh Orchestra
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by Vilem Tausky
A dialogue story written by John D. Stewart
Introduced by Cicely Mathews
A serial play in seven parts by Lance Sieveking based on Jules Verne's famous story
The explorers are now more than 140 miles below sea level. As they feel their way along a rocky tunnel, Axel lingers behind to look at something. Suddenly he realises he has lost his companions. His lamp goes out...
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
(See top of page and page 51)
Alberto Lysy (violin), Moscow Chamber Orchestra directed by Rudolf Barshai
8.0 to 9.0
Concerto Grosso No.21 in D minor...Handel
Pavanne and Chaconne in G minor...Purcell
Violin Concerto No.5, in A major...Mozart
Vincent Waite talks about Thomas Day, the eccentric pedant whose quest for a wife ended at Bath on August 7, 1778.
9.15 to 10.0
Visions Fugitives...Prokofiev
Intermezzo (Suite for Strings)...Galinin
Sonata No.3, in C major, for strings...Rossini
From the Guildhall, Bath
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
Porphyria's Mother; Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli; Two in the Campagna; My Last Duchess
Read by Marius Goring
(Marius Goring broadcasts by permission of the Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon)
10.59 Weather forecast
Christopher Wood (harpsichord)
L'entretien des Dieux, Chambonnieres
