News and market trends

1 Wednesday's 7.50 talk

The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO

followed by an interlude

Pilgrim's Progress
A series of talks by THE Rev. MORRIS WEST, D.Theol.
4: Lions and Giants

Second edition

followed by an interlude

for Primary Schools
Introductory music
9.5 SERVICE
All creatures of our God and King. Part 1 (Tune, Lasst uns erfreuen: C.H. 13)
Interlude: The Tree and the Candles
The Prayer of Thanksgiving
All creatures of our God and King, Part 2 (Tune, Lasst uns erfreuen: C.H. 13)

Piano Trio in B major i played by the BOISE TRIO
Hugh Bean (violin)
Eileen Croxford (cello)
David Parkhouse (piano)

Stage 1 by RACHEL PERCIVAL
Music selected and arranged by Vera Gray f Tuesday's broadcast

New Every Morning, page 29
Christ the Lord is risen (BBC
H.B. 100)
Psalm 57
Romans 3, vv. 19-28
Think, 0 Lord, in mercy
(BBC H.B. 449)

IAN STEWART AND HIS QUARTET

† by GLADYS WHITRED

A cattle station in Queensland
Written by Garry Lyle
Geography series

Vater braucht Erholung
Written by Hilde-Maria Kraus
+ Intermediate German series

PETER WALLFISCH (piano)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Fourth of five programmes including Beethoven's Piano Concertos

Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East

by MEINDERT De JONG adapted by June Hodge
2: Jella's Wheel
Adventures in English series

1: Germs Everywhere
Written by Arthur Garratt
Science and the Community series

A story of Hyde Park , 1851
Written by Mary Crockett
Stories from British History series

Extracts from Grillparzer's tragedy
German for Sixth Forms series

Chairman.
PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Broadcasting:CYRIL RAY
Book: WALTER ALLEN
Art: BRYAN ROBERTSON
Film: ROBERT ROBINSON
Theatre: BAMBER GASCOIGNE
Sunday's broadcast

Invitation to Music with some of his favourite gramophone records

by MODWENA SEDGWICf read by NANCY NEVINSON
Second broadcast

Five stories by JEAN de BRUNHOFF read by BETTY HARDY 3: Babar the King
'King Babar and Queen Celeste led a happy life in the country of the elephants: peace had been signed with the rhinoceroses'

An inter-regional knock-out quiz between teams of school-children on questions about the theatre, cinema, radio, and television
Round 1
West v. North
Question-Masters:
MICHAEL BOWEN in the Little Theatre. Bristol
HERBERT SMITH in the Theatre Royal, Lincoln
Questions set by Derek Newton

British ballads from far and wide chosen and introduced by PETER KENNEDY with illustrations on records
First of a new series

Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East

Conducted by EUGENE MRAVINSKY
Recording made available by courtesy of the Soviet Radio

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Despite the massive strides made by Sound Broadcasting since 1922, a global appraisal of the medium in 1962 provides abundant evidence of the opportunities that still tie ahead. The nature and extent of this challenge, in the changing world of the Sixties, provide the theme for a special Birthday Week review

The Contributors Include: Newton Minow, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Olof Rydbeck, President of the European Broadcasting Union, Tor Gjesdal, Director of the Unesco Department of Mass Communication

Norman Hunt, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, introduces the programme tonight at 8.0

Excerpts from their famous Savoy operas
Introduced and conducted t)y STANFORD ROBINSON with ELLEN DALES (soprano) MAX WORTHLEY (tenor)
THE JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS and the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Led by Frederick Parrington
Produced by ALAN ABBOTT

Sixty Years of Show Business
3: In the Land of Beginning Again with Guest artist, JACK BUCKLAND
BENNY LEE
RITA WILLIAMS
THE GEORGE MITCHELL CHOIR
BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conductor, PAUL FENOULHET 1
Produced by CHARLES CHILTON

The News
Background to the News
People in the News

Joan Sutherland by RUSSELL BRADDON abridged by P. J. R. Wright read by WILFRID THOMAS
Ninth of fifteen instalments

played by the Melos ENSEMBLE
Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet, and string quartet (Ravel) Solo harp, OSIAN ELLIS
Serenade for flute, violin. cello, and harp (Roussel) on a gramophone record