News and market trends
i Tuesday's 7.50 talk
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Food news from ANNE WILD followed by an interlude
' The Truth shall make you free '
Talks by CANON EDWARD CARPENTER
Second hearing of the broadcast at 7.40
by R. C. SHERRIFF abridged by Jane Bowness read by Hugh DICKSON
Eighth of fifteen instalments Broadcast in September 1956
RAYMOND BAKER tells of going by cargo boat from Venice to Greece and Crete
ELIZABETH HARWOOD (soprano) FREDERICK STONE (piano)
Last of five programmes
Elizabeth Harwood broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
Stage 2 by Rachel Percival
Music arranged and selected by Vera Gray
New Every Morning, page 90
Blessed Jesus, at thy word
(BBC H.B. 257)
Psalm 121
St. John 18, vv. 28-40
King of glory, King of peace
(BBC H.B. 325)
METROPOLITAN POLICE BAND
Conductor,
ROGER BARSOTTI , M.B.E.
HARRY ARMSTRONG answers the question
2: Why don'we fall off the earth? Junior Science series
by KAY FOSTER
2:What is water made of?
Written by Reginald Williams
General Science series
JIM MCLEOD AND his BAND
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
LESLIE BAILY looks back on some of the events of our lives and introduces recorded voices of famous personalities
13: The Wars to End War
Produced by VERNON HARRIS BBC Transcription Service
The Wednesday radio magazine
Introduced by David BROWN
An African folk tale retold by MARGARET Gore Let's Join In series
The Bike adapted by Zoe Bailey Books, Plays, Poems series
Mr. Collins helps Tony to catch a new pet
Written by Christine Dudley Nature Study series
The Campbell Curse
A play for radio by Allan Prior
Since the 1740s, all Robert Campbell 's male ancestors have died on their thirty-fifth bithday as the result of a curse. Today is his thirty-fifth birthday. with Donald McKillop
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON Broadcast on April 4 in the Light Programme
from the Queen's Free Chapel of St. George, Windsor Castle
Responses (Thomas Morley )
Psalm 119, vv. 145-176
Lessons: 2 Kings 25, vv. 8-30;
St. John 6, vv. 4-71
Magnificat; Nunc dimittis (William Byrd's Three Minims)
Lord's Prayer (Robert Stone)
Anthem: Lord, thou hast been our refuge (Vaughan Williams)
MARK BENCE-JoNES talks about his great-grandfather, WILLIAM BENCE-JONES an early victim of boycotting who described himself in 1880 as an Irish landlord who tried to do his duty
Crump the Crock
The novel by PETER JONES abridged in six parts by HONOR WYATT told by TERRY RAVEN 6: Crusader Crump
' Know what? ' yelped Benson. 'It's Crump-I've seen him working! '
A serial play about the Donnelly family written by CHARLES WITHERSPOON
3: Nothing Adds Up Produced by CICELY MATHEWS
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON JACK TRAIN, RICHARD DIMBLEBY
KENNETH HORNE in the chair
Produced by C. F. MEEHAN
a lifetime in the Theatre in conversation with ELIZABETH FRANK
conducts the BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire with Samson Francois piano
Part 1
8.50* The Interval
A HALF PINT OF AMAZON
† GILBERT PHELPS describes a journey through the vastness of Amazonia from Belem at the river mouth to Manaos in the Brazilian jungle: but beginning with a mouthful of fresh water 200 miles out at sea
9.5* Antal Dorati conducts
Part 2
A short story written and read by ANTHONY C. SMITH
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
Their ingenuity in the chase; their elaborate courtship rituals: their disturbing propensities as mates: and their ambiguous relationship with their young
Written and produced by NESTA PAIN
Music specially composed and conducted by ANTONY HOPKINS A new production of the programme first heard in 1951 Michael Hordern broadcasts by permission of the Royal Shakespeare Company
One Man and his Dog by ANTHONY RICHARDSON abridged by Donald Bancroft read by JOHN GLEN Third of fifteen instalments
played by SUSAN BRADSHAW (piano)